Tag: Energy Efficiency
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Winterizing Tips That Work
Prime: prime Subtitle: If you really want to prepare your home for winter, ignore the standard advice and do this instead …
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Self-Sustaining Vertical Garden
Vertical gardens are great for façades, insulation and to add a bit of greenery to a home or office. But the problem with them is that they require a lot of maintenance and power to flourish. Well, that could be a thing of the past. The firm Treebox, which specializes in urban greening, has created…
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High Rise Made of Laminated Timber
This interesting building is actually the winning entry into the so-called Finlandia Prize for Architecture, which is organized in Finland. The building is called Puukuokka and was designed by the OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture and build out of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT). The Puukuokka building was constructed using prefabricated modular cubical elements, or more precisely…
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How the Stack Effect Can Defeat Your Winterizing Efforts
Prime: prime Subtitle: Some of the standard tips for winterizing a home may give you a warm and fuzzy feeling but won’t give you a warm and cozy house Images: Caulk your windows. Weatherstrip your doors. It’s that time of year again. No, I don’t mean the time of year when you should do those…
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Safer and Better Roof Alternative for Low Income Families
Families from the poorest regions of the world more often than not cover their already lacking homes with corrugated metal roofs. It’s a low cost solution, but in most cases doesn’t prevent leaks, and certainly has very little insulation value. What’s more, they’re often full of toxic substances such as asbestos. To fix these shortcomings,…