There used to be a time when not much more than wood, bricks and mortar went into the design of a house.
Those days are long gone.
The building world today is one which thrives on efficiency. Innovative ideas are creating an entirely new landscape for homes, high-rises and advanced infrastructure to be built upon.
With the goal of self-sustainability in mind, there is no limit to reused, reduced, or recycled to create the cities and suburbs of the future.
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Green Building Materials
The issue of sustainability is becoming increasingly important as consumer awareness of the environment grows. Increasingly, consumers are demanding products that are produced in a sustainable fashion. They want products that minimize damage ...
The World’s Smallest Sustainable House - But is it practical?
Issues with finding housing in urban spaces has become an increasing challenge. Finding sustainable living solutions in urban areas can be next to impossible. With the mission of solving the housing problem around the world Gaby Strehler, the...
The Arcology: A Human Hive
In some corners of popular culture, the word arcology is practically synonymous with “hive”, and is typically portrayed as a teeming city-building, stuffed to the gills with people in a situation just short of an apocalypse. However, ...
Geothermal Heating Goes Mainstream
Along the shores of Langford Lake, in the hills of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, sits a small, but growing, housing development. Unlike most housing developments you see these days, these houses are not looming McMansions, but ...
Green Roofs for a Green Tomorrow
For anyone with access to Google Earth, take a look at a typical city core, with its mountains of skyscrapers. Notice the predominant colors. It’s a sea of grey, with the occasional splash of green from a tree or small park on the street. T...
Home Power-Generation Dream Suffers a Blow
Red tape is strangling a scheme designed to encourage millions of families to generate their own green electricity with home mounted solar panels, wind turbines and heat pumps, according to the United Kingdom’s largest manufacture of centra...
Green Building FYI: Increasing the Thermal Insulation In Your House
When you think of what everyone is saying about how to ‘green your home’, the most common topics of discussion are LED light bulbs and low flow showerheads. Something that may not be so familiar is increasing the thermal insulation throughou...
Just How Green Is That Grass?
We all know in buying a home, you are buying more than the structure itself. In addition to the walls, windows and roof, all of which we can see and inspect, you are buying the land and all that lies beneath. And while the grass may be green, ther...
Las Vegas' CityCenter: One Of The World's Largest Sustainable Developments
When Las Vegas' newest and most exciting addition to the strip opens this December, there's going to be more to celebrate than only new resorts, residences, and community areas - the CityCenter also going to set the bar for sustainable developments i...
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