Considerations for Building a Sustainable Home

Posted by on Aug 23, 2024 in Blog, Green Building Design, Green Homes Sustainable living should not only be about reducing your carbon footprint in your daily activities, it should also be extended to a sustainable building design. This means that when building a house or any other structure for living, we should use eco-friendly products as far as practicable, and design the building so to use as little ongoing resources as possible. You may wonder what choice...
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World and US Green Building Council (USGBC)

Posted by on May 11, 2024 in Blog, Green Building Design A Green Building Council is a non-profit, member-based organization that promotes sustainable buildings and green design practices. Their aim is to promote the change of the construction industry into one that is sustainable by working with the government and private industry in promoting the use of environmentally friendly design strategies. As of February, 2012, there are 24 countries with...
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ASHRAE Ventilation Standard 62.1

Posted by on May 11, 2024 in Blog, Green Building Design The ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning) Standard 62.1 is a design guide that is used to improve indoor air quality conditions inside buildings by specifying minimum ventilation and exhaust rates in order to provide acceptable air quality that minimizes harmful health effects for building occupants. Ventilation Rates Standard 62.1´s minimum ventilation rates...
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Green Building Design and Construction

Posted by on Apr 30, 2024 in Blog, Green Building Design Today’s building professionals are creating healthy and environmentally friendly buildings using sustainable design methods in the construction industry. In order to verify that a building has been designed and built using strategies targeted at reaching high standards of human and environmental health, the US Green Building Council (USGBC) created a rating system called LEED (Leadership...
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