Ecohome house/绿色建筑和可持续的家庭装修正无穷ormation & Advice

...Ecohome’s demonstration home: Passive heating and cooling, healthy living space, affordable to build and operate, resilient and flexible design. The underlying goal of theEcohomeDemoHousewas to design and build a modestly-sized but functional home that would greatly outperform conventionally built homes, yet be o...

...Housecontinues to act as a laboratory for resilient, cold climate building practices. Through software energy modeling it was determined that the KenogamiHousewould likely require 14.6 kWh of heat per square metre per year, but its actual performance seems to be even better. What we have learned this first winter is...

...House?EcoHomealso decided for LEED certification instead of PassiveHousecertification because even though the EdelweissHouse’s energy consumption for heat and its level of airtightness are at or near the required levels. “We met the PassiveHouseheat requirement and had virtually the same on air changes. Passive...

...housesits at about grade at the north side, but needed about 3 feet of fill at the south edge to level the building site. Compacted slab on grade base ©EcohomeA plate packer was used to tamp the ground in stages to ensure a solid base, as seen above. A retaining wall was built using rocks from the site to hold the...

...Houserenewable energy systems and the building philosophy that drove the design process. ©Ecohome©Ecohome©Ecohome©Ecohome

...House, the rest can be found on the RDI websiteEcohome's KenogamiHousein northern Quebec was described by Alex Wilson of the Resilient Design Institute based in Brattleboro, Vermont, as "The most resilienthousein North America." ***

...Houses Worth it? Are Tinyhouses a good investment? That depends on your lifestyle and how well you build them. Here are some things to think about before you join the TinyHouseMovement and commit to life in an extremely small space. We have featured a number of tinyhouses on our pages over the past few years, most...

...HouseMovement has become a bit of a craze over the past few years in the US where I’ve been living, especially since reality TV channels started airing shows such as TinyHouse, Big Living, TinyHouseHunters and TinyHouseNation to mention just a few. As much as this may come across as an appealing and sustainable l...

...houseplants clean indoor air? The idea thathouseplants filter and clean indoor air is at best a mini-truth, and at worst a total myth, and like any pseudo-science health trend, it can have a negative impact as well. Providing false solutions to human health issues gives people a false sense of security. Having plant...

...House. The drawing is not to scale, but performance values are accurate. Additional note: stud cavities are filled with R24 Roxul mineral wool batts. See more about the insulating theEcoHomeEdelweiss LEED v4 Platinum certifiedhouseroof here in theEcoHomeGreen Building Guides

...housewhere there will be footings. Depths, widths and backfill specifications will be provided by engineers. See our page on raft slabs as an alternative to a thickened edge slab on grade foundation. Notes for excavating a Slab on Grade foundation: 1) When beginning with a rubble trench for the load bearing part of ...