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What is a Green Building?
Sustainable or “green building” design and construction is the opportunity to use our resources more efficiently while creating healthier and more energy-efficient homes. Although there is no magic formula, success comes in the form a leaving a lighter footprint on the environment through conservation of resources, while at the same time balancing energy-efficient, cost-effective, low-maintenance products for our construction needs. Click here to learn more about Green Building Guiding Principles. In other words, green design involves finding the delicate balance between homebuilding and the sustainable environment.
Modern Materials - Featured Articles
Material Review: One to Watch
Paper thin, lighter than glass, nonstick, and recyclable: ETFE is what gave shape to the Watercube and the Bird’s Nest at the Beijing Olympics. Hannah McCann details how one architect is emerging as an ETFE specialist.
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Building for the Future
On May 4, 2007, a Category 5 hurricane tore through Greensburg, Kan., nearly wiping the rural town off the map. But since then, Greensburg has been rebuilding with a vengeance, aiming to become one of the greenest cities in the United States. And one family is finding peace of mind in SIPs and geodesic dome design.
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Watching What We Call Green
The Federal Trade Commission has been busily working to update the Green Guides—the rules by which marketers can claim environmentally conscious features in their products. See where the Feds are drawing the line between green and greenwash.
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Forms and Function
According to the Web site of the North American Insulation Manufacturer’s Association, insulation saves 12 times more energy per pound in its first year of use than the energy required to produce it. Implementing a sound insulation system appropriate to a job, then, is a wise investment in a home’s future.
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Modern Materials Archive
Answering the Challenge
Greenbuildingsolutions™ finds answers to your tough on-site conundrums…Read More
Architectural Vision and Appeal
Innovative designs as fluid as the future of green building…Read More
Energy Efficiency
Green building means building efficiency and saving resources…Read More
Green Guides, Energy Star, Certification Issues and Public Policy
More about more technical and regulatory issues in Greenbuildingsoluions™...Read More
New Materials Application
Surprise! Plastics are THE enabling on-site material…See How
Piping & Water Management
Case studies proving plastic pipe to be greenbuildingsolutions™…Read More
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Recycling on-site, vinyl roofing, and reincarnated? Read More
Sustainable Design
Life cycle assessment, carbon footprint, and saved energy…it’s all in the design...Read More
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