“Building Green”
By David Porter AIA
Consulting architect to the Garlinghouse Company since 1989.
By now, you have probably heard loads about everything “green” – building green, living a more “green” lifestyle, and on and on. “Green” is the new, overly used, buzzword thrown at you from twenty directions each day. What is this new-fangled movement, what does it do for you, your family, your neighbors, your community, and anywhere else in the world as it relates to building a simple, little house for your family?
The “green movement” is not actually that new. It has been in the works for about the past 12 years. However, it is just now beginning to catch on with government agencies and major corporations, so they all bring it to us as new news. With global warming getting accepted as a grim reality, agencies, nations, and people are looking at ways to stop earth from overheating. The design and construction of buildings play a big part in that solution... To read more Click Here. |