A company in Western Kentucky has built more than 40 structures, including eight schools, using an innovative construction method called Insulated Concrete Forms. ICF consists of four-inch Styrofoam blocks reinforced by a rebar grid into which concrete is poured.…
The concept of ‘Passive Houses’ has been gaining some currency recently. On first glance it doesn’t sound terribly exciting. From this article in the Portland Daily Journal of Commerce, however, you can see that creating a passive house requires homeowners to take a number of active steps towards building or renovating a house that requires very little energy for heating or cooling.…
Insulation, rain runoff, reduced carbon emissions and the heat island effect. Green roofs are certainly good for the environment.
As these photos from a recent Huffington Post contest show, green roofs are pretty easy on the eyes, too.
