green construction

This house looks normal enough, but it actually saves 90% on electricity and saves half the water of a normal house! Watch the video to find out how...

Additional details about maintaining air quality during the demolition stage.  Thinkspace is seeking LEED-CI certification and is writing a blog with details about the green tenant improvement project.

The Thinkspace project in Redmond, WA is using HEPA filters during the demolition stage of the tenant improvement build-out.  Thinkspace is seeking LEED-CI certification.

The building material of choice for the 21st century might be bamboo, found every continent except Europe and Antarctica. It's used to build everything from luxury homes to churches, and it is lighter than steel but five times stronger than concrete.

A real estate blog piece on that speaks about consumer sentiment about green buildings, and has some good links with downloadable reports and some local information for New York City.

"I had a customer ask to see only green buildings for the first time this week, a sign to me that consumer sentiment may be transforming right now." --comitini.com

Over one half of this planet's population (about 3 billion people) lives or work on buildings constructed of earth, such as facilities constructed of mud brick (adobe), rammed earth (pisé), compressed earth block or other methods of earthen nature. Throughout history people has used raw earth to build affordable, durable housing. Now the green building movement is embracing this time-tested material, and rammed earth is one of the most exciting of all sustainable building technologies.

The October 2007 Green Building Research White Paper (AEC Industry Continues to Embrace Green Building But Is It Only a Niche?)by Building Design+Construction revealed that an overwhelming majority of respondents (86%) felt that green buildings cost more.

Serious Materials has developed EcoRock, an ecologically safer form of drywall which uses 90% less energy in production than standard gypsum and could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 billion lbs/year.