In today's world, where energy efficiency and cost savings are at the forefront of homeowners' minds, it's crucial to explore practical ways to make our homes more efficient.Fortunately, there are numerous simple yet effective strategies that anyone can implement. In this blog post, we will delve into some valuable techniques for maximizing energy efficiency and minimizing expenses in your home.Find local professionals to help you with your project.Harnessing Solar Energy for Heating: When it co
Today there are all sorts of different systems you can have installed in order to green your home and make it more energy and water efficient, but which ones give you the best bang for your buck? A…
LAMBERTVILLE, Mich.—On a drive down a country road, builder Bill Decker gives an off-the-cuff seminar about energy efficient homes. He shifts from carpentry to electrical engineering, and then to theology—his belief that his faith compels him to take care of the earth. Every few minutes, he pauses and points out a house his family-owned company […]
The passive house approach to construction offers the ultimate in energy efficiency. To achieve its standards, builders have to follow five exacting rules.
Passive House Design gives readers confidence in dealing with the passive house standard from the very first design draft. It shows how much scope for design there is in passive houses and explains design strategies that lead to better passive buildings. Detailed documentations of both residential and non-residential buildings illustrate how design, construction and building technology combine in passive houses. Chapters on building physics, building services engineering and energy balancing provide the required detailed knowledge for being able to implement your own passive house projects.
At its research labs, GE says it has the smart-grid technology, including solar panels and efficient appliances, to build a home that has a net-zero energy consumption.
Using natural circumstances to lessen the need for artificial or mechanical climate control is known as passive design Strategies. This means making the most of natural components by optimizing a building's layout, materials, openings, and orientation, which will ultimately improve environmental comfort. When these techniques are widely used, individual buildings become more ecologically friendly and their overall energy usage is drastically decreased.
Follow these steps to create an energy efficient home that in turn produces a comfortable, healthy home for you and your family.
the Sino-Italian ecological center of education, training, and research for the protection of environment and energy conservation.
Architects and designers all over the world are trying their best to incorporate sustainability in their work. Biodegradable, carbon-neutral, eco-friendly, etc. are not just trends or buzzwords, these imply that we may have potential solutions to reduce the load on our planet and slow down the climate crisis. Sustainable structures create an impact on an
We’re conducting Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings research to help bring connectedness and the related energy savings across the buildings sector.
What does the term Solar Passive Design actually mean? Passive solar design refers to the use of the sun's energy for the heating and cooling of living spaces. In this approach, the building itself or some element of it takes advantage of natural energy characteristics in materials and air
In today's world, where energy efficiency and cost savings are at the forefront of homeowners' minds, it's crucial to explore practical ways to make our homes more efficient.Fortunately, there are numerous simple yet effective strategies that anyone can implement. In this blog post, we will delve into some valuable techniques for maximizing energy efficiency and minimizing expenses in your home.Find local professionals to help you with your project.Harnessing Solar Energy for Heating: When it co
A practical design delivers a remarkably airtight, super-insulated home on a modest budget.
Design projects across the world are experimenting with new ways to generate energy through the built environment. Elizabeth Braw reports
The first certified Passive House in Scranton, Pennsylvania demonstrates that high-performance homes can be built for the same price as code-built homes.
The very root of what makes a home green is how effectively it responds to its surrounding environment. You could say that this has defined the primary material pursuit of mankind for all time – building better shelters to keep us warmer, cooler,
PhD thesis describing a research project carried out at the Technical University of Denmark in close collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects.
For this quick concept, the focus was on tackling the awkward interior space of a 40 foot ‘high cube’ shipping container. Angling the container lowered the roof in places and gave the rooms better proportions. The changes in level have been used to define the spaces. To maximise interior space super thin “va-Q-vip” vacuum insulated
