Aberdeen: Covered City @ George Street
Competition entry for an RIAS sketch competition to design covered spaces in the city of Aberdeen that incorporates sunshades and thermal mass.
Addressing High Construction Costs in Green Building
Master's thesis that examines barriers to the adoption of green building by surveying 250 green building representatives. In addition it identifies the techniques outlined by the sustainable research institutes to lower construction costs in green building and compares them to techniques currently used in the field. Includes a review of current literature.
Advanced Buildings
Products and tools for designers of 20,000 to 80,000 SF buildings to help reduce energy usage and improve indoor air quality.
Altwals Alternative Landscape Materials
Describes the potential uses for alternative landscape materials which include rammed earth, corrugated cardboard bales, adobe, fly ash concrete, straw bale, earth bag construction, and cast earth.
Architectural Green Solar Network
German Association concerned with sustainable architecture. (German and English)
Aspen Publishers - Environment Journals
Publishers of the Energy Design Update newsletter.
The Benchley Project
An independent Design-Build project by three students of Texas A&M University to develop a sustainable living complex. Contains photos of construction of the straw bale house.
Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell Architects
Architecture firm with a focus on sustainable architecture. Includes research papers on other methods than LEED of assessing building performance.
Boulder Green Building Guild
An association of building professionals in Boulder County, Colorado focused on making green building common practice. Includes calendar of events.
Building Concerns
Supporting ecologically sustainable design and building. Includes the Interior Concerns Resource Guide, a sourcebook of information and product suppliers of more sustainable and healthy building and interior materials and products.
Building Green
Site for home improvement TV show hosted by Kevin Contreras that focuses on environmentally friendly construction methods and materials.
BuildingGreen
Publisher of Environmental Building News and the GreenSpec directory. Developer of the BuildingGreen Suite, a research tool for green design. Site includes articles about many green topics.
Castleblock
Architects and engineers in Hawai'i specializing in alternative building materials and technologies with a focus on high-performance, recycled content materials. Also dealers for concrete forms, plywood substitute, and recycled rubber lumber products.
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
A research and design center for sustainable building practices run by Pliny Fisk, based in Austin TX.
Center for Research in Alternate Systems of Energy
Design dissertation project outlining the use of alternate energy systems and principles of climatic architecture to reduce energy consumption in buildings. Includes a pilot project for a research campus. Good explanatory diagrams.
Construct Ireland
Contains information, articles, daily news items, and a directory of contacts relating to sustainable construction in Ireland. A monthly e-mail newsletter is available by subscription.
Development Center for Appropriate Technology
Non-profit organization that supports the development and use of sustainable technology through education, research, and projects. Includes information on working with code officials. Active in revising building codes to include sustainable issues.
Earth Advantage Sustainable Building
Program supported by Portland (OR) General Electric Company to support sustainable design of residential and commercial projects with consulting services and the Earth Advantage certification program. Program also certifies builders and remodelers. Site also contains technology reports, links to information sites, and events in the Portland area.
EcoDeveloper
Information on building EcoVillage 1, a high-level sustainable community in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Ecostruct
Building company based in South Shropshire, UK promoting the concepts of sustainable development and environmental awareness within the construction industry. Projects include barn conversions and individual houses with emphasis on energy-efficiency and low environmental impact. Site includes a good overview of several of the key issues involved in sustainable architecture.
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