Green Building 101: Materials and Resources

Pencils sharpened, class, because Inhabitat's lecture of the week is on Materials and resources, and it is a big topic so pay attention. Your Cliff Notes version, without their lovely pictures and prose:-Get small. We always talk about living with less; It now pays LEED points. -Get efficient. frame your building carefully and think about prefabs or SIP's.-Get Local. Don't pay to ship materials across the country or the world. -Build to last. Houses should last a couple of lifetimes.-Pick your materials carefully. Think FSC.-Don't waste. Anything.

That is the crib sheet, see the whole lesson at ::Inhabitat