This green home: the power of simplicity in green buildings
BOSTON–For all the complex solutions proposed to lower building energy use, Simon Hare has a project to demonstrate the power of simplicity in green buildings.
The design-builder earlier this year began reconstructing an 1850 cottage in Boston’s historic Roxbury Crossing neighborhood to be so energy efficient that it wouldn’t need any mechanical heating.
His work is inspired by the Passive House standard, which is based on a set of principles for building energy-efficient homes that took root in Germany in the late 1980s. But Hare has another goal: to show that net-zero, or very low, energy homes are within reach of everyday building professionals.
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Dany
#1. March 27th, 2010, at 11:08 PM.
Power saving techniques are very much needed now a days even the web hosting servers are going green these days as they are working on wind mills but wind mills are not common in our country yet