Eco-Housing, How to make housing more sustainable
Ideas for enhancing and Retrofiting Current Homes
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The Brighton Waste House investigates strategies for constructing a contemporary, low energy, permanent building using over 85% ‘waste’ material drawn from household and construction sites.
Now fully completed, the building is Europe's first permanent public building made almost entirely from material thrown away or not wanted. It is also an EPC ‘A’ rated low energy building
A massive 3D printer measuring 490 feet long, 33 feet wide, and 20 feet deep was used to 3D print each of the structural components from the giant concrete slabs to the inner cross bracing. To cut down on costs, WinSun fabricated the frame from layers of concrete partly made from recycled construction waste, industrial waste, and glass fibers. Each house is approximately 2,100 square feet.
WinSun also plans to open 100 recycling factories in the country to continue to transform waste into cost-effective “ink” for their 3D printers. By doing so, Winsun estimates that this kind of 3D printing could cut costs for construction companies in half. If these 3D-printed houses catch on, the company also hopes that the technology could provide affordable housing for the impoverished.
From houses to yurts, recycled materials like glass bottles and discarded plastics can be used to make inhabitable and attractive shelters. With a surplus of trash all over the world, building with garbage may be the wave of the future, as this house -- constructed with 85 percent waste, using items like video cassettes, toothbrushes and carpet tiles -- hopes to prove.
3-D Printing with recclaimed Materials title
Materials, design for reuse, recycle, repair and and start with local sustainable materials
What are the base materials were they picked sustainably, how were they processed, how long and clean is the supply chain?
Rapid Renewables-
What’s “rapidly renewable”?
Rapidly renewable materials must have a harvest cycle of 10 years or fewer. This includes materials like bamboo, agrifibers, and others listed on the chart below. Materials for this credit can come from either plants or animals—but they have to be harvested without harming the animal. Wool is okay; leather isn’t
The Forest Stewardship Council mission is to promote environmentally sound, socially beneficial and economically prosperous management of the world's forests. Our vision is that we can meet our current needs for forest products without compromising the health of the world’s forests for future generations
TimberStrand® Laminated Strand Lumber (LSL) is one of the most innovative and versatile building products available. It is used to make solutions for applications such as rim board, headers, beams, columns, wall framing, sill plates, and stair stringers.
Not only that, but TimberStrand LSL a green building solution as well. The manufacturing process combines technology and innovation to produce high-performing engineered lumber that uses small-diameter trees that are not strong or straight enough to be of structural value as conventional sawn lumber products.
Gridcore® Panels
Recycled fiber panels offer pliability,
reduced shipping costs, reduced installation
costs, versatility, and much more.
Think of it as green, only browner the color comes from ECOSE™ Technology, a revolutionary, new sustainable binder born from five years of intensive research. Made from rapidly renewable organic materials rather than petroleum-based chemicals commonly used in other insulation products, ECOSE Technology reduces binder embodied energy by up to 70%, and does not contain phenol, formaldehyde, acrylics or artificial colors used to make traditional fiberglass insulation.EcoBatt Insulation combines sand, one of the world’s most abundant and renewable resources, post-consumer recycled bottle glass and ECOSE Technology to create the next generation of sustainable insulation
Two foresight specialists describe how tomorrow’s integrated, networked, and aware home systems may change your family life.
From Smart House to Networked Home
Natural roofing materials like cedar are a great long lasting alternative to petroluem based shingles.