Tag: Housing Industry - Page 5
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Flatpack Schools Will be the Future in the UK
The UK has a new idea to cut costs: flat-pack schools that can be assembled in 13 weeks.
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10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Winterize Your Home Fast (Slideshow)
Have you recently had an electric bill shocker? Sure it's been winter for weeks -- but now is when you realize how much it's squeezing your wallet.
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One Tonne Life: Interview with Project Architect Gert Wingårdh on His Energy Efficient Building (Video)
Last week the One Tonne Life project began in Stockholm and TreeHugger was there to meet the key players in this fascinating low carbon lifestyle experiment. To recap, the Lindell family have moved
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One Tonne Life: A Swedish Family's Green Lifestyle Experiment Begins
This week in Sweden an unprecedented low carbon lifestyle experiment has begun. The Lindell family have moved into a solar powered prefab house in the suburbs of Stockholm that is specially designed to minimise energy
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Which Is Worse, Air Leaks or Heat Loss? Neither. It's Energy Consumption That Matters
There is a strange debate going on at Green Building Advisor, where a writer thinks "home buyers have been "brainwashed" into thinking only about R-values, as energy codes give short shrift to the
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On the Canals of Copenhagen, A Mixed Use Development is Home to a City in a Building (Video)
In Copenhagen, a new building is now offering 62,000 square meters for residential, commercial, and communal use. Completed just a few weeks ago, the 8 House is the latest coup de maître of Danish
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In the Richest Area of Paris, a Subsidized Housing Development Is Under Fire
In the 16th arrondissement of Paris, around the corner from the Villa Montmorency, the super-chic
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Sociopolis, the Rurban Housing Project Brings the Campo to the City (Photos)
Inhabiting the Huerta. Photo Credit: Guallart Architects Five years ago, we first heard about Sociopolis, a "shared habitat" in Valencia (Spain). This housing development is to trigger social interaction between inhabitants, propose a new type of
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Barcelona Design Week 2010: Designs For Dementia Make It Easier To Eat (Photos)
Around 700,000 people in the UK have dementia, over a third of which live in care
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Should Batt Insulation Be Outlawed?
Fiberglass has never been my favourite insulation, and I got really upset with Owens Cornings's "Pink is Green" advertising campaign a few years ago, noting that there is more to being green than simply saving energy. But I
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From Pink To Paradigm: Brad Pitt's Make It Right Houses
The Pink Project Almost three years ago, Brad Pitt built the Pink Project, which was, as described by Archinect: "150 randomly scattered pink-clad structures have been erected to occupy 14 city blocks within the Lower 9th Ward, symbolizing the vision for
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Lessons From The UK Heat Pump Study: Insulate First And Know What You Are Getting
Sami recently wrote 80% of UK Heat Pumps Performing Badly and suggested that "Lloyd will no doubt be feeling more than a little validated by this study." Indeed; I will never
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Recycled Pallets are the New Architecture
Recycled pallets, or skids, are becoming the basis for a whole new genre of architecture. And for good reason: they are sustainable, recycled, and make use of discarded packaging. The recently built pop-up Jellyfish
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Is Energy Consumption The Only Thing That Matters In Green Building?
Four years ago when I trashed the Mainstream green McMansion, which even Bill McDonough praised "a new milestone in mainstream green construction," just about everybody thought it was a fine idea. It is remarkable to see how the
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Quote of the Day: Scott Adams on Green Building
Dilbert creator Scott Adams writes about his new house in the Wall Street Journal: The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in
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Clayton's i-house 2.0: Reading Between The Lines To Find The Future Of Prefab
Preston at Jetson Green shows us Clayton Homes' i-house 2.0, a larger version of their green modern prefab introduced two years ago (and seen in TreeHugger here). It is a handsome design, beautifully presented. But while Preston says that "I-house has
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Another Reason Modern Green Prefab Is Tough: Construction Financing
I was intrigued by a recent post from prefabber Blu Homes about construction financing. They wrote: "The homeowner must procure construction financing - a short term, interest only loan that will give
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Mix'n Match Prefab: A New Approach from Michelle Kaufmann
One of the problems of modern prefab is to find a balance between the efficiency of standard plans and the flexibility of customization. Michelle Kaufmann gives us an exclusive preview of a new concept, where you mix and match different, but standard,
