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Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Jan 30th, 2008
CNET reported on a paint under development by researchers at Rice University and City College of New York. The trick is an ancient remedy that my unlce used to swear by (and probably still does). It’s silver. Nanoparticles of silver, to be exact. The trick is to insert these tiny particles […]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info. on Jan 16th, 2008
Popsci.com gives out invention awards every year. I stumbled across their selections from May and found a great product made from a coal by-product, fly ash. Once part of the problem, retired civil engineer Henry Liu turns fly ash into an effective solution, and he’s planning on releasing it this year!
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Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info. on Jan 11th, 2008
Al Gore and Anderson Cooper have brought plenty of attention to the Green Topic. Their dismal reports, along with plenty of environmental pioneers like Paul Hawkin, Ray Anderson, etc, have spurred a media frenzy on the need to save our planet. Time magazine recently reported on “51 Ways to Save the […]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Jan 7th, 2008
I just read an interesting article about New Urbanism, a movement against sprawling cities and our dependence on the automobile. The philosophy claims that we can retrofit our cities into denser neighborhoods where all of our needs, or most of them, can be within walking distance. This includes work, school, shopping, […]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info. on Dec 12th, 2007
I just ran across an interesting monthly (so far) blog about green hacking. Never heard of it? Neither had I. Basically, green hacking is modifying ordinary household items into energy saving machines. This is at least a fun blog to read, and at best an exciting way to darken your shade […]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info. on Nov 29th, 2007
Nanosolar is coming out with their new product PowerSheet. This paper thin sheet is a solar panel in disguise. The panels are basically printed on a sheet of aluminum foil in a process that is much like printing a newspaper. The result is a product that can be rapidly produced at greatly […]
Posted in Building Technology, home design. on Nov 26th, 2007
I’m stealing from other bloggers here, but the house was simply too awesome not to comment on. It’s an Aatrail house. That means that it is the opposite of a traditional house with an atrium. In this house, you drive under one side and enter the house from the atrium. The […]
Posted in Building Technology, Green Building Info., home design. on Nov 16th, 2007
Straw Bale homes have been a hot topic lately. Their R-value is outstanding, and they are quite earth friendly given the rapidly renewable resources they use: namely straw and clay. I checked it out (google straw bale houses or house plans) and was pleased to find plenty of sites willing to share the […]
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 […]
Posted in Building Technology on Jun 7th, 2007
I saw an interesting ad online while I was doing some research on concrete. It was for Bubble Deck, an innovative way of making flat concrete slabs. The traditional way is to put a lot of columns and beams beneath a very thick and very heavy slab of concrete. The Bubble Deck […]
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