Tag: green building
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From Start to Finish: Keeping the Active House on Budget
An energy-efficiency loan is key to the success of the Active House USA project.
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Active House Planners Consider Orientation, Design, and Site Preparation
The ultra-efficient house will blend in with 100-year-old neighboring dwellings.
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Prefab House is Living Lab for Energy and Water Conservation
The New Norris House continues a tradition of simple, affordable design but with less impact on local resources.
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New Metric Helps Builders and Architects Maximize Daylighting
Thanks to a new metric from the Lighting Research Center, builders, architects, engineers, and other design pros have a better method for predicting the maximum amount of beneficial daylighting in their designs.
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Reducing Buildings’ Greenhouse Emissions Will Require a Global Effort
A new survey of real estate and construction executives finds that cheap energy and lax regulations are obstacles to creating more-efficient buildings.
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A Hurricane-Proof Concrete House with a Designer’s Touch
This 1,200-square-foot home will withstand up to 200-mile-per-hour winds.
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A Modular Unit for a Shifting Population
At 400 square feet and free of the grid, the structure offers unique solutions to some of society’s upcoming challenges.
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EHDA Merit Award: Project Green Home
Palo Alto, Calif., Passive House touts greywater system and urine-diverting toilets.
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Gehry’s Make It Right Home Opens in New Orleans
Affordable duplex incorporates high-performance products and technologies.
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American High-Performance Buildings Coalition Calls for Consensus-Based Green-Building Standards
Under a new coalition, 27 industry groups raise issue with USGBC’s LEED development procedures and call for more consensus-based approaches and transparency in green-building standard development.