Comments on: GREEN BUILDING 101: DESIGN INNOVATION

By: ewishki

ewishki — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:31:06 +0000

Have you ever considered using infrared cameras to also pick up on heat emitted from devices. I am a home inspector and often see energy efficient bulbs that appear off in the camera where normal ones appear bright red because of the heat they emit. Here are a couple examples of fairly low cost thermal imagers

http://www.flir-b60.com
http://www.aikencolon.com/FLIR-Infrared-Imaging-B200-B-200-IR-Thermal-Imager-Camera_p_1806.html
http://www.aikencolon.com/FLIR-Infrared-Imaging-i60-i-60-IR-Thermal-Imager-Camera_p_0-1556.html
http://www.fluketir1.com

Those are some good examples with a lot of resources on what thermal imaging can do.

B Ewishki

By: brian

brian — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:31:36 +0000

This is an amazing site. Lots of info.

By: Tim Ruffo

Tim Ruffo — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:31:06 +0000

the use of concrete instead of hot asphalt will reduce the heat island effect, concete can also contain recycled materials such as flyash and blast furnace slags that would otherwise be wasted. Pervious concrete will achieve the storm water reclaimation and ground water recharging.
Insulated Concrete Forms can be used to form walls that are energy efficient and cut down the use of lumber in a house. This is probably the best way to create the building envelope and provide for the best sustainability.

By: Brandi Bosworth

Brandi Bosworth — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:35:09 +0000

Any recommended sites for building commercial green buildings — affordably?

By: ENERGYHANDBOOK »

ENERGYHANDBOOK » — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:24:51 +0000

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By: Monica Marsicek

Monica Marsicek — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:49:08 +0000

We’re working on educating homeowners about green home options here at ecoLogical Home Ideas magazine (www.ecologicalhomeideas.com). There’s a lot of demand for information, as evidenced by feedback from our first few issues and at the Expos/Fairs we attend. Feel free to send green home info to me, especially on low-cost homes and products. That’s one of the strongest needs we find, and one of the hardest to fill – affordable green homes.

I love finding sources of info like this, can’t wait to explore the rest of your site!

By: Kristin Carter

Kristin Carter — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:05:29 +0000

Can these articles be downloaded?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:47:33 +0000

This just goes to show what can be accomplished. Obviously, there is a burning need for innovation across our entire societal landscape, but this “tip of the iceberg” is a nice cross section of efforts that are now ready for primetime. Another requirement, perhaps a larger requirement, is not technological though. One of the biggest challenges will be to get people to request and/or have communities require these types of resource saving innovations. As a long time night sky activist, I can tell you that many people simply don’t like change regardless of the issue at hand. Education (and lots of it) will be the key to transforming our wasteful society into an efficiency minded society.

By: Joyce Kelly

Joyce Kelly — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:24:27 +0000

Great article though missing a few key facts in LED section.
1) They are not as efficient as fluorescents; their efficiency ranges somewhere between halogens and fluorescents.
2) They produce heat, though not quite as much as incnadescents.
3) No mercury waste and less waste in general over 20 years.
4) They are costly.

And design-wise, they’re effective for tight spaces and spaces with maintenance issues. Just don’t count on them for alot of lumen output per watt yet. Maybe in 5 years. In the meantime, think signalling, sparkle, color effects.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:30:55 +0000

I agree with the above. Its amazing the technology available now! I’d love to know more about the efforts getting Green building into practice for mainstream development

By: Brittany

Brittany — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:17:42 +0000

Hi! Loved this article – super interesting stuff and I hadn’t heard of 75% of it. I recently came across your site and hope to use it as a resource in the future for the company I work at – a professional development group for members of the environment sector.