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3 Keys to Senior Housing Renovation Construction

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With Baby Boomers aging, it is no surprise that Senior Housing construction and renovation are… well…BOOMING. In recent years, we’ve been working with Senior Housing developers and operators to update existing facilities, add new amenities, and retool common areas to be more competitive with new-construction senior housing options.

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Remodel Green: Make Your House Serve Your Life

Natural Building

Remodel Green: Make Your House Serve Your Life is the second book in my series about green home building (the first was Rolling Shelter: Vehicles We Have Called Home ) and it chronicles much of the personal remodeling I have done over my life. I write about the pros and cons of compost toilets.

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ECO-FRIENDLY BUILDING MATERIALS

The Constructor

Today many people that are building or remodeling their houses choose to use eco-friendly building materials. Building Technology Buildings Green Buildings Building Materials' An eco-friendly building material is.

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Remodeling Your Home

Green Home Design Architect

It really pays off to use an architect to design your home remodel. The fire damaged one wing on the house, so we are replacing it with a new two-story addition. The addition is designed to closely match the existing house while taking advantage of the opportunity to make updates to the floor plan.

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Remodeling a House with Fire Damage

Green Home Design Architect

One of our projects is for a new two-story addition and remodel to a home damaged by fire last year in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Our architects are working directly with our clients to design the addition to closely match the existing house while taking advantage of the opportunity to make updates to the floor plan.

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Taos Builder Strives to Work with Green Materials

Natural Building

O’Brien has learned how to construct a house in such a way that it eliminates the many small gaps, and their subsequent drafts, often prevalent in older builds. O’Brien’s favorite building block for houses is a combination of adobe bricks and straw bales. With highly insulative materials homes require fewer inputs of hot and cold air.

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Colorful Metal Inspiration

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Photo: hortonphotoinc.com Welcoming and Fun The Altgeld Gardens public housing complex on Chicago’s far South Side was built as a community for returning black veterans after World War II, but severe environmental hazards in the area led to decades of health problems for its residents.

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