Beautiful Green Homes
January 16th 2007 16:29
This site, Living Homes/ , features one of the companies listed in the Wired article referenced below. Talk about beautiful “green”. Building well, living well
“THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY to construct a house is to build it in a factory. This reduces a home's "embodied energy" –– the amount of power expended in its fabrication and construction. And conventional homebuilding is dirty work. From the fuel used by commuting workers to onsite diesel generators, the construction and operation of homes and other structures generates 40 to 50 percent of all the greenhouse gases in the US, according to the US Energy Information Administration. On top of that, studies suggest that more than half of a home's leftover materials –– drywall and lumber –– winds up in landfills. Plus, as anyone who has ever remodeled a kitchen knows, construction work isn't exactly high tech. Raw materials are dropped off at the building site and then assembled by hand with hammers and saws. The so-called material systems approach developed by Kieran and Timberlake banishes this primitive model. Better still, it's future-proof: Homes may be built to last, but the modules of material systems structures are built to be upgraded.” Wired.comThis is from Wired Online.
Granted, all statistics from the US government are somewhat suspect these days, with an administration that has been shown to re-write science for political advantage. (A shame, because of the individuals who work hard at their jobs, and should have their work truthfully transferred to the country.)
If you go to the above site, you’ll read a fascinating article that might influence your next house project. If I could get over the money and building permit issues in my county, it would be something I’d like to explore.....
“THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY to construct a house is to build it in a factory. This reduces a home's "embodied energy" –– the amount of power expended in its fabrication and construction. And conventional homebuilding is dirty work. From the fuel used by commuting workers to onsite diesel generators, the construction and operation of homes and other structures generates 40 to 50 percent of all the greenhouse gases in the US, according to the US Energy Information Administration. On top of that, studies suggest that more than half of a home's leftover materials –– drywall and lumber –– winds up in landfills. Plus, as anyone who has ever remodeled a kitchen knows, construction work isn't exactly high tech. Raw materials are dropped off at the building site and then assembled by hand with hammers and saws. The so-called material systems approach developed by Kieran and Timberlake banishes this primitive model. Better still, it's future-proof: Homes may be built to last, but the modules of material systems structures are built to be upgraded.” Wired.comThis is from Wired Online.
Granted, all statistics from the US government are somewhat suspect these days, with an administration that has been shown to re-write science for political advantage. (A shame, because of the individuals who work hard at their jobs, and should have their work truthfully transferred to the country.)
If you go to the above site, you’ll read a fascinating article that might influence your next house project. If I could get over the money and building permit issues in my county, it would be something I’d like to explore.....
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