Tag: water efficiency
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Net Zero ADAPT Home Reduces the Need for Climate Control in the Chihuahua Desert
One of twenty teams that have been chosen to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 competition, Team Texas is comprised of eighty students from multiple disciplines at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and El Paso Community College. Their submission is the $250,000 ADAPT home, a single family dwelling that takes…
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Georgetown Rowhouse Renovation Becomes LEED Platinum Showpiece
In the heart of a densely populated Washington, D.C. neighborhood that has easy access to public transportation and bicycle routes, this historically-protected Georgetown rowhouse (circa 1800s) received a restoration treatment that brought it into the 21st century and helped it to achieve LEED Platinum certification. Environmentally sustainable modifications to the 3,300 square foot home came in…
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Big Budget Historical Renovation Gets the (LEED) Gold
One of the twenty-one projects that have been named as winners by REMODELING magazine in the 2013 Remodeling Design Awards, the Shornecliffe Residence gets its recognition in the category, Green Remodeling Over $250,000. The sustainable renovation of the 1914 arts-and-crafts-styled home has achieved it a LEED for Homes Gold rating. When the homeowner called upon…
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Ecohabit Smart Home Vies for 2013 Solar Decathlon Recognition
An entry in the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition, Ecohabit is a project of a cross-disciplinary group of sixty Stevens Institute of Technology students with expertise it the areas of engineering, design, computer science, and the technological aspects of business, visual arts, and music. The Stevens Team, only one of twenty that were selected to compete…
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SOAK in a Pop-Up Spa Repurposed from Reclaimed Shipping Containers
San Francisco startup, SOAK, inspired by Amsterdam saunas and dubbed, “an urban bathhouse for healthy hedonists,” has turned shipping containers into a spa that can be transported to any urban location. Taking measures to “minimize its hedonistic impact,” the spa can operate entirely off the grid or return excess power to the grid. It bears…