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8 strategies for multifamily passive house design projects

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8 strategies for multifamily passive house design projects 0 qpurcell Mon, 11/20/2023 - 12:22 Sustainability Stantec's Brett Lambert, Principal of Architecture and Passive House Certified Consultant, uses the Northland Newton Development project to guide designers with eight tips for designing multifamily passive house projects.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize esorum Thu, 03/16/2023 - 09:09 This year’s finalists in the Construction & Design category include solutions to the labor shortage as well as environmentally friendly building solutions focused on decreasing construction time.

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Homes LEEDing the Way to Sustainability and Resiliency

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Homes LEEDing the Way to Sustainability and Resiliency. Green Building Council's LEED Homes Awards recognize LEED-certified residential projects that are having a positive impact on communities through sustainable, healthy, and resilient design, as well as builders and developers that are helping to advance green home building.

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Adaptive reuse: 5 benefits of office-to-residential conversions

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rcassidy Mon, 06/19/2023 - 14:58 Richard Whitney, Vice President, FitzGerald More than 11,000 units of multifamily housing have been created in the last two years alone by converting outmoded office buildings into much-needed residences. Model kitchen at Millenniium on LaSalle. 1 Construction cost and speed of delivery.

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New Study Reveals Cost Effectiveness of Solar Panels

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This software models the energy performance of solar panels at a specific location for a specific home configuration to calculate expected electricity production and more. The analysis indicates that the following factors are the primary drivers in determining how cost effective a rooftop solar PV system is: Local electricity price.

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Interested In Prefabrication? Here’s 5 Tips To Get It Right From The Start

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For example, after the second world war Prime Minister Winston Churchill saw the method as key to solving the UK’s housing crisis – which led to the construction of 150,000 prefabricated houses by 1951. Manufacturing off-site in a controlled environment is safer and more sustainable. Prefabrication has a very long history.

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Housing's Now: The Ultimate Z.E.N. Home

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Housing's Now: The Ultimate Z.E.N. Or deliver a healthy home, incorporate battery storage, or go all-electric? Home (Revive model). A lot of developers and municipalities have sustainability goals for new master plans and communities, he adds. Mon, 10/05/2020 - 19:57. Rich Binsacca, Editor-in-Chief. 14, 19, 21, and 28.

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