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Sustainable futures: sustainable timber housing
2023Throughout history human settlement has relied on and been highly influence by the availability of all the favorable elements that make for the occupation of a specific geographic area. In Australia for instance, very early Aboriginal settlements were influenced by the availability of the resources that are imperative for basic human sustenance and in ...
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T-House in Shaping Sustainable Housing
2019Architecture is becoming an increasingly realistic response to the doctrine of sustainable development. The quality of life is influenced not only by the comfort, form and economy of the house, but also by the appropriate location and value of urban solutions, especially in small communal or social buildings, where architectural solutions have economic
Alicja Maciejko, Boguslaw Wojtyszyn
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Sustainable housing ? is it legal?
Municipal Engineer, 2004Most construction professionals would expect to be conversant with the relevant legislation relating to building and development: the Building Act and its approved documents, the Town and Country Planning Act, the Planning Policy Statements, the Contaminated Land Regime and the Control of Pollution Act probably spring to mind.
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Sustainable Housing: A Conceptual Approach
Open House International, 2017Sustainable architecture is a well-known and studied subject for severeal decades. The environmental awareness of professionals has put sustainability in the center of the profession of architecture and has resulted in introducing and implementing ecological designs both in the scale of buildings and cities.
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Smart Housing in Sustainable Development
2015Reducing the energy consumption is one of the pillars of sustainable development. In European scale is consumed nearly 40 % of power on operation of buildings because we spend 90 % of our time inside the buildings. Reducing energy consumption of buildings can be considered as the basis for innovative solutions for housing construction and ...
Daniela Spirkova, Dagmar Cagánová
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2021
Based on our experience of more than 20 years in housing construction for vulnerable families, from the IMV and IH, we have assumed the commitment to project integral housing solutions, incorporating the principles of sustainability in its three dimensions: economic, social and environmental. Our design premise is based on reducing the energetic demand
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Based on our experience of more than 20 years in housing construction for vulnerable families, from the IMV and IH, we have assumed the commitment to project integral housing solutions, incorporating the principles of sustainability in its three dimensions: economic, social and environmental. Our design premise is based on reducing the energetic demand
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Mass Housing and Sustainability
Open House International, 2013The world population just passed 7 billion. Fear of growth towards 35 billion, if the “high fertility rate scenario” was maintained, is reduced. The “stable fertility rate scenario” is more likely, stabilising the population around 10 billion in 2050 (Le Monde Diplomatique, 2011). In 1987, as a response to the need for focusing on housing for the lower
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Sustainable housing: the architect's responsibility? [PDF]
This dissertation discusses a number of arguments concerning who should do what in environmental practice. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the problem of sustainable architecture pertinent to housing and the architect’s responsibility. This study attempts to prepare the ground for a normative debate on the assignment of responsibility between ...
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2008
Il dibattito sulla progettazione d’edifici di civile abitazione a basso costo è stato dimenticato per molto tempo, schiacciato dall’interesse suscitato dall’effimero mondo della moda architettonica. Nel frattempo, in questo periodo d’oblio, l’edilizia residenziale è stata il campo privilegiato della ricerca di frontiera dell’architettura per la ...
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Il dibattito sulla progettazione d’edifici di civile abitazione a basso costo è stato dimenticato per molto tempo, schiacciato dall’interesse suscitato dall’effimero mondo della moda architettonica. Nel frattempo, in questo periodo d’oblio, l’edilizia residenziale è stata il campo privilegiato della ricerca di frontiera dell’architettura per la ...
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Sustainable housing design - Emphasizing urban housing
2006The Association was established in 1972 in the United States as a non-profit world organization. The Association, leaded with high competence and zeal by Professor Oktay Ural, is an interdisciplinary association, interested in the different aspects of the housing sciences: planning, design, building, economical and financial topics, marketing.
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