Tag: energy efficient
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DEWA Headquarters in Dubai is World’s Largest LEED Platinum Public Building
The recently opened Dubai Energy and Water Authority’s (DEWA) Sustainable Building in Dubai has been awarded LEED Platinum status, becoming the largest public sector building in the world to achieve that status and set a new standard in sustainable building construction. It is also the United Arab Emirates’ first public sector green building, was constructed…
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Tiny Tack House Transforms Tacks into Tiny Home Movement Advocates
Recently featured in Huffington Post, Chris and Malissa Tack worked in high-tech careers in New York City before relocating to Washington state where they determined to put the Tiny House Movement into place in their lives. Researching possibilities online, Malissa, a 3-D artist with a specialty in animation, created mockup blueprints of favorite design elements.…
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4 Energy-Efficient Products to Keep You Warm and Green This Winter
From the Green Builder magazine’s annual Editor’s Choice list of The Top Hot 50 Products for green building, we have selected four of their featured eco-friendly products that will help to keep you warm for the rest of the winter (or help you get ready for the winter of you’re south of the equator). Selection…
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Prefab Fishers Island House Steps Up the Modern Modular to Luxury Vacation Living
Recently published by Resolution: 4 Architecture, this time lapse video shows how builders stacked thirteen prefabricated boxes to create this stunning six bedroom, five bathroom home in Fisher’s Island, New York. For a total size of 4,469 square feet, the private vacation home resides on a wooded lot from which residents can gaze upon either…
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BluServ™Plus Brings You Full-Service Homebuilding from Blu® Homes
Blu® Homes is now offering “start to finish” project management services so that they can more easily provide customers with precision-engineered, green prefabricated houses. BluServ™ Plus services include design, fixed bid, general contractor, schedule management, project management, and site work. “Our clients asked us to provide this service, so we built a national team of…