Author: LEED Blogger
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Clever Transformation of a Small Apartment
It’s always nice to see clever ways of turning tiny interiors into functional living spaces that feel much larger than they actually are. The French architect Richard Guilbault recently achieved just that with a renovation of a tiny Paris apartment into a home that looks and feels much larger than its 322 square foot (30…
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Solar panels named home exterior style trend for 2015
Royal Building Products, a manufacturer of home exterior products, releases its Exterior Style Trends guide every year to reflect the hottest design choices among homeowners, builders and architects in North America. Why does this interest us? In the just-released 2015 guide, Royal Building Products mentioned sustainability — specifically solar power —Read More — Solar Builder magazine
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Maison D is An Affordable Family Home
Traditional building is time consuming, labor intensive, expensive and can be quite damaging to the environment. Part of living a sustainable lifestyle is certainly finding ways to construct our homes with minimal impact and Maison D, recently built by Fouquet Architecture Urbanisme in Couëron, France is a great example of how that can be done.…
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Locus Energy’s fleet surpasses 1 GW of solar capacity
Locus Energy, a performance monitoring and data analytics platform provider for the solar PV market in the residential, commercial and utility sectors, announced that its fleet has surpassed 1 GW of solar capacity in the United States. This milestone reflects record growth in the solar monitoring sector, which has outpaced solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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DOE Funds Projects to Improve LEDs and OLEDs
Initiatives will improve lamp efficiency and lighting controls. More…