Archive for the ‘Green’ Category
June 5th, 2008 | Tags Green
via Wired Magazine
Wired: The site, dubbed Oxley Woods, already features 90 eco-friendly homes, with 55 more planned to fill its seven acres. The factory-made dwellings make good on prefab’s promise of low cost and quick construction. They take as little as $118,000 and seven days to erect: five in the plant and a day and a half onsite, where crews slide and screw together the modular pieces. (Electrical, plumbing, and other finishing work takes another four weeks.) Manufacturing the major components offsite reduces waste and makes it easier to use green materials, like insulation from recycled paper and lumber harvested from sustainably managed forests.
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April 9th, 2008 | Tags Green
via iT house blog
Designed by Linda Taalman and Alan Koch. The iT house sits on 5 acres of high desert hillside, so remote that it has to function off-grid with green technologies.
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March 31st, 2008 | Tags Green
via zeroHouse
zeroHouse generates its own electrical power. High-efficiency solar panels produce power and store it in an onboard bank of batteries. Fully charged, zeroHouse can operate continuously for up to one week with no sunslight at all.
zeroHouse collects its own water. A rainwater collection plane gathers and divers water into an elevated 2700 gallon cistern. All plumbing fixtures are gravity-fed. eliminating the need for power-consuming pumps.
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March 28th, 2008 | Tags Green
via building the new world
Wikipedia: Earthships are earth-sheltered autonomous buildings made of tires rammed with earth, which are usually arranged in “U” or horseshoe shaped modules. Each tire is rammed full of earth manually using a sledge hammer. Windows on the sunny side admit light and heat. The open end of the “U” shaped structure faces South in the northern hemisphere, and North in the southern hemisphere, so that the house will catch maximum sunlight in the colder months. An Earthship is designed to interface with its environment wherever possible and create its own utilities.
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November 13th, 2007 | Tags Modern, Green, Prefab
via Marmol Radziner Prefab
A prefab in Utah by Marmol Radziner. 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2500 interior s.f., and 1720 deck s.f. with 15 modules. Marmol Radziner Prefab: combines the efficiency of factory-built homes with the benefits of custom residential design. Our green homes are not a kit of parts – we build the prefab modules in our own factory and ship them complete with your choice of pre-installed interior and exterior finishes, flooring, appliances, and more. We can oversee the entire process, from design to delivery and installation, so no additional contractor is required.
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October 23rd, 2007 | Tags Small, Green, Prefab
via HABODE
HABODE is built on an eco-friendly concept designed by New Zealander Rod Gibson who recalls the enjoyment of holidays in a secluded spot near clear waters and green grass that epitomizes the development of family values he took for granted as a child in the early 1960’s. With HABODE, Rod seeks to share that enjoyment of life with his family and with you.
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October 19th, 2007 | Tags Green
via Diary of a Vermont Eco Builder
Diary of a Vermont Eco Builder: The main goal is a super insulated house, that requires minimum energy to run. The overall design of the house and placement on the land takes into account passive heating and cooling, reducing the mechanical systems that we’ll need over the changing seasons. Vermont can have extremely cold winters, as well hot and humid summers, so the systems used need to cover a large range of temperatures. One aspect that was very important to me was to see if we could reduce our fossil fuel use, meaning no natural gas (which is scarce in VT anyway), propane (widely used), or oil (also widely used). An all electric house however can skyrocket utility bills, depending on what you’re running, so we decided to offset this with a geothermal heat pump system for our main heating/cooling and hot water heating. Regarding electricity, Vermont is lucky that a very high percentage of its power comes from either hydro or nuclear, two very clean sources (nuclear has larger implications of course), as well as “cow power” at a slightly extra cost, and so all electric seemed to make the most sense.
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September 10th, 2007 | Tags Green, Prefab
via Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Megabuilder Mattamy Homes is constructing a subdivision of houses in Milton, Ont., that are, for the most part, assembled on the factory floor and then transported by truck.
The main advantages for the builder are the protection of raw materials from theft and inclement weather, and the safety of the workers. Roof trusses, for example, are built by workers standing and walking around on the factory floor.
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August 29th, 2007 | Tags Green
via Mr. Kimberly
Global Peace Containers housing is changing building construction worldwide through ultimate recycling of used shipping containers.
Reclaiming containers previously considered unusable and repurposing for building structures solves many environmental issues such as pollution and saving trees and materials made of valuable resources.
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August 23rd, 2007 | Tags Green, Prefab
via Youmeheshe
Dwell: … dubbed “7.83 Hz” after the idea to create a home that matches the natural frequency of our planet… Architects Simon Beames and Simon Dickens’ London-based practice, Youmeheshe, was set up to develop an innovative and potentially revolutionary design, which would make a carbon-neutral, eco-friendly prefab house available to the mass market. Yet the two Simons are still unsure how exactly to pitch the idea to a nation that has accepted organic vegetables but has yet to fully embrace the Prius. In ten years’ time the idea will doubtless sell itself, but today the two innovators are way ahead of the curve.
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