Tag: single family
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This Week in Energy News for April 11, 2013
This week in Jetson Green Energy News, we’re reporting on recent energy-efficient design awards, a reinstatement of New Mexico’s eco-friendly building standards, new wind power coming to Canada, U.S. GSA sustainability goals, and America’s continued concern for the economy over the environment. Plus, our calendar of upcoming green events gets some new additions. Carbon Challenge…
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Mixed Use Shipping Container Structure to be A First in St. Louis
Shortly after returning from Italy, where he was project manger on several villa rehabilitations, to St. Louis, Missouri, developer Patrick Barnidge has started his own firm, Delsa Development, under which he has proposed a mixed-use container structure. To be built on a Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) city-owned lot in the Grove area of Forest Park…
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This Week in Energy News for March 29, 2013
This week in Jetson Green Energy News, Australia has a new addition to its list of carbon neutral cities, the Indian state of Gujarat will reduce water evaporation and produce energy from solar panels over canals, a new shower head from New Zealand engineers reduces water flow by fifty percent, Wisconsin is reducing pollution from…
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Blu Home Builds Joshua Tree Vacation Home for Disney Family
Blu® Homes builds award-winning, architecturally designed prefab houses in a 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility near Vallejo, California using a proprietary steel framing and building technology that results in economical, low-maintenance houses that are strong, beautiful, and finished on-site. The Blu | Origin is their most versatile design, allowing for numerous floor plan possibilities. From…
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First NYC Shipping Container Home Receives Final Certificate of Occupancy
After more than two years in construction and red tape, the shipping container home that David Boyle and his wife, Michele Bertomen, who is an architecture professor at New York Institute of Technology, have been building received its final certificate of occupancy from the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) on February 28, 2013.…