Zero energy house

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If you're building a new home, making sure your home is energy-efficient and comfortable to live in is crucial to your long-term comfort and happiness. Find out the 10 steps to designing a home that will be energy-efficient and comfortable and helps improve your family's health. These 10 steps are the process to making a net-zero energy home and on the path to a passive house. #healthyhome #sustainabledesign

Scenario 1: The Ideal Net Zero Water Building | Department of Energy

Every day, Net Zero Energy buildings make the news. Homeowners, commercial building owners, developers, architects and builders are all becoming more aware of the potential of Net Zero Energy buildings. And every day, there are more resources on design specs, products, and innovative ideas to make net zero a very desirable reality. It is now […]

The most sustainable energy is energy not used

GatorRated.com is joining the effort to go green! Read about our acquisition of ZeroHomes.org and how we plan to help uncover energy-efficient homes for all Floridians.

The structure, produced by Braemar Building Systems of Colorado, is made from a preengineered build-it-yourself kit using steel from Recla Metals, which sells for $20,000. Austin and Russell could have spent that $20,000 on solar panels to power an air conditioner that ran all the time, but instead they opted for the low-tech approach.

LAMBERTVILLE, Mich.—On a drive down a country road, builder Bill Decker gives an off-the-cuff seminar about energy efficient homes. He shifts from carpentry to electrical engineering, and then to theology—his belief that his faith compels him to take care of the earth. Every few minutes, he pauses and points out a house his family-owned company […]

60 Richmond East Concept Sustainability

Architect Arielle Condoret Schechter was up to the challenge of designing their dream net-zero home. The home had to be well-insulated, air-tight, and energy-efficient because to reach a net-zero energy bill, the structure has to produce as much energy as it consumes. Therefore Babool house features a photovoltaic array on the roof to generates solar power. READ & VIEW MORE NOW!

BSI-145: Zero Energy Ready Homes (ZERH) | buildingscience.com

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a net-zero house and a passive house? They’re both buzzwords in the green industry. But also appear in the mainstream news and the speeches of politicians. Gaining in popularity, it’s good to be aware of the differences. In some cases, it’s the smallest of details. But […]

Image 16 of 24 from gallery of Zero House, Nearly zero energy reconstruction of a rural house in Daxing / Tenio Tianjin Architecture and Engineering. Courtesy of Tenio Tianjin Architecture and Engineering

BEMS technology monitors, automates, and controlls building systems such as heating, ventilation, AC, and lighting to improve energy efficiency and comfort.

Solaripedia is a database of green architecture and green building resources using solar, wind and passive strategies to create sustainable built environments. This page provides green case studies and project examples.

One passive system that can be used to increase the energy efficiency of a building is a solar chimney. This system relies on natural forces to improve the ventilation and thermal performance of a building, without the use of any external mechanical or electrical devices.

The Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) may not be new news, but is a fabulous example of innovative, zero-energy, sustainable housing on a multi-unit scale. The residential and workspace development in the London borough of Sutton is a carbon-neutral

Net-zero homes are becoming more feasible for the average home owner. So what will the future of net-zero living look like?