ENERGY CONSERVATION ON NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
ENERGY CONSERVATION ON NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
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Cities from Copenhagen to San Francisco are already exploring the possibilities for a “cleaner, healthier world with everything from water harvesting roofs to wind turbines. Here's TIME's sneak peek at what a green world might look like by the year 2025.”

“When you are looking at developing a green building, you should look at what is free. The sun is free, the wind is free, your geography is free,” said Ennis. These renewable resources can be used to power or cool a building so that building construction and maintenance is cheaper and more energy efficient.”
Much can be done on new cities planning and architetural which will for sure reduce energy consume.
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RE: ENERGY CONSERVATION ON NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Can't remember where I saw it, maybe MSN environment.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
RE: ENERGY CONSERVATION ON NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
About your reply i found this
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has unveiled plans for London's first mini "eco city." It will have approximately 1,000 homes, and will aim to demonstrate that homes can be built in Britain without contributing to global warming. The London project stems from a proposal by Greenpeace and will be taken forward by the London Development Agency (LDA) with help from British engineering firm Arup.
luis
RE: ENERGY CONSERVATION ON NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
UK houses could be a whole lot cheaper to run, right now, by taking full technical advantage of the materials available, rather than taking advantage of their cost effectiveness compared to more traditional construction methods.
Bill
RE: ENERGY CONSERVATION ON NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
RE: ENERGY CONSERVATION ON NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
RE: ENERGY CONSERVATION ON NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
“The market needs to be repaired by charging the total cost of energy, including costs to mitigate the harm we do in exploring for it, recovering, refining, distributing and generating it.”
In my opinion in the above statement you are not totally right. In build construction it is possible without construction cost increase to introduce new concepts that if thought in the initial construction design will help to reduce energy wastes.
Construction rules should be determined by good engineering practices. Building construction is like a martial arts fight where architects and engineers have to take profit from ambient strength, we cannot affront hurricanes, winds, oceans, rivers, earthquakes or the sun but we can built friendly in harmony with them. Future cities policies should take this into account.
luismarques