Water Tower Wind Power

Dr Majid Rashidi, a professor at Cleveland State University in Ohio, has developed a wind turbine system that can be attached to existing building water towers, or other circular towers. This would allow for easy integration of wind turbines into existing urban buildings. The design uses the curvature of the water tower, to increase the [...]

What Do You Mean By Green?

Who felt first that we need to go green? When exactly were we really green? When exactly will we be completely green? We are heading towards a future where everything will start all over again. Entire earth will sink in molten polar ice and a new nature will take shape mostly without ‘human’ help! Does anyone really [...]

Foundation In The Morning, Completed House By Night!

The Simpatico Homes are prefabricated homes specifically designed to take advantage of off-site manufacturing technologies. Built to the same codes as site-built homes, modular designs are constructed in a dedicated factory where quality control measures ensure a superior product.  The homes are built in several smaller modules and are nearly 90% complete when transported to [...]

Hearst Tower Leading The Way

 Foster and Partner’s Hearst Corporation Tower in Manhattan has been claimed to be the city’s first “Green” building ever since it has been completed in early 2006.  The skyscraper was constructed within an existing six-story cast stone façade of the original Hearst building in effort of preserving the landmark site.  It has received numerous awards [...]

Bioplastics

Did you know that Bioplastic was invented in 1850 & Henry Ford made a car completely from Bioplastic in 1941? Are bioplastics the wave of the future, no, they are here now & slowly being introduced into the mass commercial world. Like any new technology it has its drawbacks. The upside is the elimination of [...]

Attic Ventilation

Dr. Joseph Lstiburek explains the finer points of Attic Ventilation. Attics or roofs can be designed and constructed to be either vented or unvented in any hygro-thermal zone (Map 1). The choice of venting or not venting is a design and construction choice not a requirement determined by the physics or by the building code. [...]

Quality of Life vs. Environmental Effects

It is hard to think of a time in our history when we, as Americans, have been able to develop and “advance” the quality of our lives without polluting the environment at the same time. It is natural for the core to expand through population and economic growth. This expansion has also been tied into [...]