Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
Builder Reaches Finals Of GreenSmart Awards
October 18, 2011
Eco home company Civic Steel Homes has been recognised as an industry leader by the HIA-Boral GreenSmart Awards. The Brisbane home building company was nominated as a finalist at the prestigious GreenSmart Awards 2011, which is a celebration of notable businesses within the environmentally responsible housing industry.
Eco home nomination A number of eco home business were nominated, including Civic Steel Homes in the ‘National GreenSmart House of the Year’ category. The awards took place in Melbourne, Australia and acknowledged excellence across a number of categories, indlucing ‘GreenSmart Home’, ‘Project Home’, ‘energy Efficiency’ and ‘Residential Development’.
“We are delighted to be included in the line-up for these awards,” said general manager Greg Konig. Showcasing the very best of what’s happening within the eco building industry is done really well by the HIA-Boral GreenSmart Awards.
“We’re proud to be included as a finalist, and we see it as a recognition of all the hard work, passion and dedication that goes into the creation of our green smart home designs.” He added: “The thing that attracts people to our green smart houses is their liveability. We can customise our steel-framed homes to any style, shape or size our clients wish, and our designs go the extra mile to provide sustainable homes of the highest quality.”
These awards are seen as the benchmark for environmentally responsible building techniques, home design and products. The HIA-Boral GreenSmart Awards are Australia’s longest running industry awards and are a celebration of sustainable house design companies.
Environmental guidelines such as increased energy efficiency, reduced waste from the building process and systems in place to enable the occupants to waste less and recycle more, have to be adhered to by a Brisbane builder for a house to be classified as a ‘green smart house’.
To encourage designers, builders and homebuyers to embrace sustainable housing The Housing Industry Association (HIA) use the GreenSmart brand. To find out about creating your own eco home, visit: www.civicsteelhomes.com.au
For more information about planning a beautiful, sustainable home on your property, be sure to visit Brisbane builder. You will also see a wide range of images and design ideas in the ‘Property” section of Brisbane home builder. Be sure to check it out.
ZED Floor Plan, Passive Solar Thermal Buffer Zone
May 1, 2010
Zero Energy Design® coined the term “Thermal Buffer Zone” in the materials about our first ZED home in 1979. It is the extremely efficient concept that two small temperature differentials result in lower undesirable heat transfer than one large exterior envelope temperature differential. Since 1979, “TBZ” has appeared in popular architecture literature many times, but most Architects(R) still do not understand how to use it cost effectively in a zero energy building.
This narrated video shows a beautiful, open, efficient, abundant-daylight floor plan, and how our refined Double Shell Thermal Buffer Zone transfers solar gain from the sunny side of the home, to the cold side of a Zero Energy Design building with NO electricity. We also describe summer Energy Recovery Ventilation solar cooling, and how we hide all solar panels and satelite dishes from view on all sides. By Larry Hartweg Zero Energy Design® “Abundant Energy Man” ZEDmaster@ZeroEnergyDesign.com
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Building An Ecologically Sensible Home
January 27, 2010
Peak Moment 103: Wanting to live a “reasonable, comfortable life” in tune with nature, Ann and Gord Baird are building a near “net zero energy” home on Vancouver Island. Their plans: the first load bearing, seismically engineered, two story, insulated, cob residence in North America. Solar PV panels for electricity with grid tie. (Wind power will come later.) Passive solar design with solar thermal for hydronic heating and domestic hot water. Composting toilets to enrich the earth for gardens along with grey water recovery for orchard irrigation. Rainwater catchment from a living roof tops off this sustainable, affordable, natural home for their three-generation family of six. Follow their progress at www.eco-sense.ca.
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