Meet The Kerala Architect Pioneering Sustainability.
Assisted living (also known as extra-care housing) offers more support than sheltered housing but still allows you to live independently. You live in a self-contained flat, with your own front door, but staff are usually available up to 24 hours per day to provide personal care and support services.
Get back to basics, achieve food security and find financial independence with these 9 key aspects of achieving true self-sufficient living. Here are tips from a family that is making it work.
What is BREEAM? BREEAM is the world’s leading sustainability assessment method for masterplanning projects, infrastructure and buildings.It recognises and reflects the value in higher performing assets across the built environment lifecycle, from new construction to in-use and refurbishment. BREEAM does this through third party certification of the assessment of an asset’s environmental.
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This essay is based on an earlier version that was first published by the Simplicity Institute in 2012. It was written before RetroSuburbia and summarises many of the ideas behind the book. The transformation of suburbia, and similar low density residential landscapes, into dynamic, productive and engaging communities is the vision that an increasing number of people recognise as their best.
For the SEED (Sustainable Energy Every Day) Classroom, the SEED Collaborative sought to construct the nation’s first sustainable, modular classroom as an equitable and sustainable solution to the ongoing issue of classroom space, while also providing a hands-on teaching tool that would teach and inspire students to be stewards of their environment.
BLOCK Homes are designed for net-zero or net-positive energy performance, with a rooftop solar array, and highly efficient envelope, heating, and appliances. The company I work for, FSi consulting engineers, did energy modeling and mechanical design, determining an energy budget for the home, and identifying systems that are both energy- and.