BASF Goes Platinum With "Near-Zero Energy Home"
by Justin Thomas, Virginia 
on 03. 2.07
BASF unveiled this impressive "Near-Zero Energy Home" recently. The home has three systems (solar, air conditioning, building envelope) integrated together to make it 80% more efficient than a typical home. It was selected by the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) pilot testing for the recently launched Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Homes (LEED-H) rating system. The BASF home earned a Platinum certification. It's located in Paterson, New Jersey, and it will serve as a template for a project to build over 3,000 affordable housing units in Paterson. :: BASF via Jetson Green
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Thanks for the link love Justin. Another cool thing about the project is that William McDonough is going to use some of the BASF technology for his cradle-to-cradle cities in China. So what we're seeing with the above home really is a model for the future of residential real estate.
A home of plastic and foam?
We have similar kind of Green Buildings in Bangalore. May be the only such houses built by any developer. The project name is T-Zed and is developed by Biodiversity Conservation India Ltd. These buildings are built using soil stabilized bocks less cement, no forest timber, no chemical paints, complete recycling of waste water, complete solid waste management within the campus etc.. They have used LED lighting system and bio-diesel based power backup