LEED Points

Tag: Green Construction

  • Using Mushrooms to Build Homes

    The use of mushrooms in architecture has been proposed before, but now Aleksi Vesaluoma, a student at Brunel University has taken it a step further. He’s developed a fungi-based building material, which is carefully shaped into long tubes and cultivated to form eco-friendly building blocks that can be used for construction quite easily. Aleksi worked…

  • Energy Efficient Homes – Saginaw Sunset

    Jim Guild and Nunzie Gould don’t just want to build places to live. They want to create homes that live forever. They approach every project with a commitment not only to their clients, but to community, and the environment.  They think deeply not only about the layout of the house, but how what they are…

  • The Benefits of Composite Material

    Composite materials can have a high strength-to-weight ratio, which means that while it is lightweight (up to 30-40 per cent lighter than steel or aluminium), it is also very strong. This makes it a good material to build with. The tensile strength can be up to six times greater than that of traditional materials. These…

  • Greening the construction industry for human and ecological health

    The built environment is one of the most important dimensions of the sustainability movement. While green architectural designs promise low carbon footprint projects, and green building practice…

  • Building bridges

    Photo credit Diana Rothery Skanska USA expresses its corporate commitment to the triple bottom line through its Sustainability Agenda. Th…