Are you building a new home, considering remodeling, or just speculating how to improve your dream home’s sustainability? Ponder upon natural stone! It’s truly a natural winner when it comes to searching for perfect green building materials.   Including Stone in Your Sustainable Home Design   If you are looking for a sustainable material to […]

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How can your roof affect the environment? This is a question more and more homeowners are asking themselves as we move forward to a more eco-aware attitude.  And for those who are still not asking this question, its high time you should, because the type of roofing material used on your roofs has a substantial […]

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There has been a whole lot of buzz around building smart cities, this has naturally made way for the inception of ‘smart living’ and ‘smart homes’. Amidst this boom, if you are planning to construct your own dream house, it is first important to understand the latest innovations in the construction sector, especially with regard […]

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Buildings are responsible for an enormous amount of resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. With the ever-growing population and increasing demand for buildings, be it residential or commercial, we cannot get away from building houses and complexes, however, we can surely infuse sustainable construction methods. Buildings account for almost 40% CO2 emission and extensively consume […]

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Did you know the global construction industry is responsible for filling 50% of the landfills, contributes 50% to detrimental global warming, apart from 23% of the air pollution and is also responsible for 40% of the pollution found in water? Not only this, a report by USGBC (United States Green Building Council) shows that the […]

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In a recent annual ranking report from the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC), this ranking list has the top ten countries outside the US that are following LEED and India  accounts for 10-12% global space as green structures. It has more than 750 LEED certified projects covering over 20.28 million gross square meters of space […]

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“Sustainability” this topic has been creating a lot of buzz in almost every industry and circle, exclusively in Architecture. The last decade has seen a significant increase towards environmental consciousness and it’s for good indeed. Thoughtful decisions are being made, many builders are trying to integrate the principles of sustainability into their design. For many […]

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Balkrishna Doshi, the 90-year-old Indian architect has been named the winner of the 2018 Pritzker prize, the highest accolade in architecture. Doshi is one of India’s most influential architects of the 20th century, he is the 45th recipient of the Pritzker Prize and the first ever Indian to receive it. Born in 1927, into a […]

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Constructing your individual home is a dream come true, isn’t it? Well, once constructed the overall cost involved can be easily calculated, but do you know the construction and running of a home can take a huge toll on the environment? Yes, the amount of damage a house can do to the overall environment is […]

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