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The Winning Homes in the Solar Decathlon Are …

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Evaluated for 10 different metrics, including energy efficiency, architectural design, innovation, and market potential, the homes had to be as technically impressive as they were feasible to build.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Community.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Community Owned Solar Electricity. Earthbag Structures for Disaster-Prone Areas. November 17, 2010.

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3 Critical Questions to Ask Before Starting an Adaptive Reuse Commercial Construction Project

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Because the client brought us onto this project during the early planning stages, we were able to collaborate to ensure this was feasible, and also value-engineer the design. Restaurants, for example, require higher capacity for electrical, water and waste than an office or retail space.

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

BD+C

Issue 3: Structural design for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing Coordinate with the structural engineering team as you plan unit layouts, plumbing, and HVAC. The architectural layout of a residential unit is unlikely to align with the office framing concept. Steel or wood is generally easier to adapt in a conversion.

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Different types of quantity surveyor in surveying field

Construction Cost Estimating

Consultant / Client Quantity Surveyor or PQS They perform a wide array of activities which range from cost planning, value management, feasibility studies, cost benefit analysis, life cycle costing, tendering, valuation, dispute resolution and cost estimating. Senior Quantity Surveyor –They take ownership as well as liability for the team.

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More about design drawings and model planning

Construction Cost Estimating

Planning are generally made for different technical purposes like architecture, engineering or construction etc. So these design drawings can be categorized as: • Feasibility studies. and many more. But it is also true that some of these are not always known as design drawings as sometimes they has not started well or completed early.

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Question about Light Straw/Clay Answered

Natural Building

As many of you know I maintain an “Ask the Experts” opportunity at www.greenhomebuilding.com for people to post specific questions that they might have regarding various aspects of natural building and sustainable architecture. I have no doubt that the wall system you describe is technically feasible to build.