Category Archives: Eco Construction
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Thomas Home, the sustainable eco house
Posted on February 20, 2012 by admin in Eco ConstructionA beautiful and highly sustainable home that requires a third of the cooling and half the heating of similar homes, the Thomas Home, set on an 11 acre site in the Cascade foothills and overlooking Mt. Rainier and Everett City in Washington state is a perfect example of passive house design. This comes partly simply [...]
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Sustainable Building Assessment Tool In South Africa
Posted on August 17, 2010 by in Eco ConstructionSustainable buildings assessment tools is a programme used in South Africa in the construction industry to investigate sites before construction to determine local resources that can be used and to keep the focus on environmentally conscious building practices.
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Sustainable Building Materials Are an Eco-Friendly Alternative For New-Build Homes and Tower Blocks
Posted on August 16, 2010 by in Eco ConstructionNowadays, more and more people around the world are aware of the environmental impact being made with the manufacture of compound items. Instead of making everything from scratch, recycling where it helps the most is more common these days. The most noticeable and essential are in new structures being made with sustainable building materials.
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Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Building
Posted on July 29, 2010 by in Eco ConstructionEnergy prices for oil and gas have almost doubled in the last ten years and many energy companies have announced further price increases. If you can imagine that more than sixty percent of the used energy in homes is spent for the generation of room temperature and hot water it becomes quickly clear that here are the biggest saving potentials.
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Sustainable Building – Worth the Extra Dough?
Posted on July 28, 2010 by in Eco ConstructionSustainable building may cost more up front, but saves through lower operating costs over the life of your home and puts that money back in your pocket! Green homes tend to last longer, be more efficient and have a smaller ecological footprint.
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How Can You Recognize Sustainable Building Materials For Your Home?
Posted on July 27, 2010 by in Eco ConstructionIf you do not want to have a home filled with toxic and harmful building materials, you should think of a way to find environment-friendly supplies that you could use to construct your home. Here are some characteristics of sustainable building materials that you should watch out for while canvassing for the best construction products.
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Sustainable Building – Advice For Small Development Proposals Has Become More Affordable
Posted on July 26, 2010 by in Eco ConstructionIn the UK, the requirements to build sustainable homes become more and more onerous. The trouble is that most of the requirements have been written with large development projects in mind. In addition the consultants that are able to prepare the required documents are also used to dealing with large developments. All this originally meant that the cost of advice required to prepare the supporting documents was out of sync with the size and complexity of the proposed development.
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Ghana Could Lead the World in Sustainable Building
Posted on July 25, 2010 by in Eco ConstructionIt is common practice for Ghanaian home builders to use concrete or sandcrete block for construction. In this new age of sustainable building, Ghana may be poised to make the transition to building with insulating concrete forms quicker than developed countries.
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Sustainable Building – With Environmental Value!
Posted on July 24, 2010 by in Eco ConstructionSustainable building has been in vogue, ever since the green building concept came into existence. Green building means resource efficient and environmentally conscious, sustainable design which is usually dependent on three areas such as conservation, energy, resource conservation and indoor air quality. You can also identify which properties will save you funds when it comes to fuel costs and making repairs.
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How to Use Ecologically Sustainable Building Materials in Your Own Home
Posted on July 22, 2010 by in Eco ConstructionIf you are feeling more than a little guilty because of the environmental impact that home building takes on nature, you are not mistaken – and you are not alone, either. As more and more people are learning that good households can coincide with environmental protection, the idea of using ecologically sustainable building materials in homes is rising in popularity. There is good reason behind this, as well, with millions of square kilometers of land and plenty of energy being consumed each year all over the world simply to construct buildings. Here are some of the ways for you to help nurture Mother Earth while attaining the real estate of your dreams.
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