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Add Beauty and Efficiency to Your Home with LaCantina Doors
Last month, we posted an article about how to use interior sliding glass doors to increase home energy efficiencies in which we talked about how glass can add LEED points: Glass doors can contribute...
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LEED Platinum Texas Home Has Net-Zero Water Use
This 3,600 square feet home in Leon Springs, Texas is LEED Platinum-certified and features several affordable green building strategies that contribute to its net-zero water use. The homeowners asked...
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Green Roof on Children’s Hospital Contributes to LEED Potential
Three green roofs can be seen from many of the patients’ rooms at the new Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital that was dedicated last November. A 6,000 square foot terrace green roof, with a deck...
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Park Passive is First Certified Passive House in Seattle
Attendees of the 2013 Explore Design Home Tour, sponsored by American Institute of Architects (AIA) Seattle, will get up close and personal with Park Passive, one of seven homes on the Tour and the...
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Modern Seaweed House Revives Tradition of Seaweed-Thatched Roofs
Designed by Danish architect Tegnestuen Vandkunsten for client Realdania Byg, The Modern Seaweed House features the use of seaweed in thatch-like layers on the roof in a manner that has become a...
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Ecohabit Smart Home Vies for 2013 Solar Decathlon Recognition
An entry in the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition, Ecohabit is a project of a cross-disciplinary group of sixty Stevens Institute of Technology students with expertise it the areas of engineering,...
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Australia Wins Solar Decathlon China 2013
Winners of the Solar Decathlon China 2013, Team UOW (of University of Wollongong and TAFE Illawarra Institute) was the first Australian team to have ever won a place in a Solar Decathlon final and was...
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Sustainable HARVEST HOME Helps to Heal Body and Spirit of Wounded Warrior
The first city-wide collegiate team to be formed in Washington, D.C. and compete in the Solar Decathlon is Team Capitol DC, made up of students and faculty mentors from Catholic University, American...
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fluxHome Combines Passive and Active Principles for Net Zero Energy Use
One of four teams that are representing California in the 2013 Solar Decathlon, Team USC (from the University of Southern California) will be submitting its fluxHome, a net zero prototype, as an entry...
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AIR House Connects Inhabitants with Nature in Simple, Sustainable Style
The first team from the Czech Republic to enter the Solar Decathlon is Team CTU, made up of 26 students who set their sights on designing and building a prototype for future housing while raising...
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