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Building an Earthbag Workshop in Wales

Natural Building

Avid blog reader Phil Dodd wrote, “Are you aware that in mid-Wales, UK, a sustainable-living practitioner is now coming to the end of his second earthbag build on his land? Kris Harbour has now nearly finished building a large workshop with earthbag walls, and a turfed timber roof.

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Materials Shortages in Construction: Catapulting a Sustainability Revolution?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

When it comes to construction, are we at a tipping point towards necessitating sustainable solutions for good? And further innovations in technology like 3D printing or Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) can be used to design and build prefab homes which offer safer and more efficient ways of working to this sector.

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Dandara submits plan for 1000 Glasgow rental homes

Construction Enquirer

The design includes additional public realm for Glasgow in the form of a new urban park, over 4,000 sqft of commercial space and an array of on-site resident amenities including lounges, co-working facilities, cycle store and workshop, and two fully equipped gyms.

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don't think: Do Revit: Conceptual Design Workshop

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Conceptual Design Workshop. The second part of the workshop will focus on analysis applied early into the design process (conceptual energy analysis, solar radiation, use of structural analysis plug-ins), and will also provide overview of API features such as Analysis Visualization Framework and Dynamic Updating. -

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Online Learning Opportunities

Natural Building

People are staying home these days to avoid the spread of Covid-19, and unfortunately this means that many of the wonderful workshops that have been offered for learning about natural building and sustainable living have been cancelled. They are non-toxic, ecological, and inexpensive to make.

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Choosing an Ecological Lifestyle in India

Natural Building

Mahesh Krishnan could easily live a luxurious life, but instead, he chose to lead a more sustainable lifestyle. After quitting his job in the hospitality sector he started learning basic life skills like natural farming and natural building attending workshops and watching several.

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Educators Place the Spotlight on Modular Construction

GCP Applied Technologies

The house was carefully built in modular sections by the students in the school’s workshop. Thus, the house is exposed to highway speed winds without the protection of siding when it is transported from the school’s workshop to the Habitat jobsite. One challenge is that the siding is installed on the modular house at the jobsite.