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Monthly Archive for October, 2007

A rebuilt world?

Posted in Green Building Info. on Oct 29th, 2007

Recent projections have shown that half of our buildings will be rebuilt by 2030. That’s residential and commercial buildings combined. Can you imagine? In just over 20 years, our evironment will change dramatically! The green movement is getting excited about the studies, showing that in only 20 years we can vastly [...]

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The Housing Crisis – a need for better planning

Posted in Building Mistakes on Oct 17th, 2007

Hank Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, has just made some alarming comments on the housing crisis. He remarks “Let me be clear, despite strong economic fundamentals, the housing decline is still unfolding, and I view it as the most significant current risk to our economy,” and that “The longer housing prices remain stagnant [...]

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Design Power and Humanity

Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info. on Oct 12th, 2007

So many of us think that Interior Designers are simply decorators, Architects only build glass skyscrapers, and Engineers only care about complex bridges. This fallacy is known as oversimplification or generalization. As a student of Interior Design, I can tell you that this is not true. Our schooling deals with plenty of [...]

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Trees Hate Foreclosures

Posted in Building Mistakes, Green Building Info. on Oct 9th, 2007

I was disappointed to read an article titled “Developers helped build a bust.” According to Mara Der Hovanesian of BusinessWeek, many developers began selling mortgages as well. They ended up misrepresenting clients’ income to sell their homes at higher prices. This has ended up in virtual ghost towns as foreclosures soon became [...]

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