The Passive House Standard for low-energy buildings is being put through its paces in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market. The Ice Box Challenge involves putting two identical 720-kilogram blocks of ice under two separate structures
Posted by NICHOLAS BURTNER, Get ready to start using your shower and sink water. Nicholas Burtner explains in detail how to build a grey water bed for home use.
This House in Adelaide Was Built With $170K and a Lot of Used Tyres Night is close to falling across the Adelaide Hills as a permaculture group talks about what Martin Freney should be
Sitting at home in the summer heat, your mind may start to wander to that fancy new air conditioner. But when it comes to making your house comfortable and sustainable, prevention is better than cure.
New nonprofit Fox Hole Homes has a hairbrained scheme to house homeless veterans– and so far, it’s working The drive onto No. 60 Rattle Snake Road is easy to miss. The gravel road, probably
Can & Bottle Walls A can wall is a wall constructed from recycled aluminum cans, which are not a common building source. The cans can be laid in concrete, similar to bricks to
These walls systems are all solid walls made out of dense materials, of which the modern Brick, Block and poured concrete walls are the most common variety. Since these common variants are all have
Already have money and insurance. now you are looking for land and ready to acquire land. do not buy land yet, make sure you will be allowed to do what you want to do.
Insulation materials run the gamut from bulky fiber materials such as fiberglass, rock and slag wool, cellulose, and natural fibers to rigid foam boards to sleek foils. Bulky materials resist conductive and — to
In most climates, vapor barriers, or, more accurately, vapor diffusion retarders, should be part of a moisture control strategy for a home. A vapor barrier or vapor diffusion retarder is a material that reduces
