5 Eco Friendly Housing Projects !!! | eco friendly houses.
With the global warming as an issue of great significance it was no surprise when green housing became avant-garde. Today, the awareness among people is greater than before, so that grew into trend, making more and more companies think out of the box and find innovative technology that will save the planet. Here are five results of their efforts for eco friendly houses
1. Chapel Hill, North Carolina
www.greenbridgecondos.com
Chapel Hill is beautiful town in North Carolina and home of less than 50,000 residents who have the possibility to live in amazing green neighborhood. This eco friendly housing project consist 98 houses built from materials that have been recycled after the demolition of previous buildings. They use electricity generated by solar power, while there are planted roofs and rainwater runoff system, too. In order to keep it going for a long, long time, the government and their partners completed the project with opening sustainable educational learning center.
2. Rabi Rashmi Abasan, Kolkata, India
www.skyscrapercity.com
Rabi Rashmi Abasan in Kolkata was the very first eco friendly housing project that was made to meet the extraordinary great needs of electric power in the country. It’s the first ever completed totally solar-powered housing complex. Photovoltaic cells are installed on every single roof. The household will use as much as necessary, while the rest of the power will go to the public grid. There are a number of other sustainability features, such as solar street lights, solar-heated swimming pool, battery operated pick up vans for inhabitants, garbage management system and so on.
3. Mueller, Austin, Texas
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The environmental movement of Austin is well known, so it was not surprising at all when the government decided to convert the old municipal airport into field of eco friendly housing project. The 711-acre area now is covered with homes, parks, schools, restaurants, businesses, shops etc. – all of them use renewable energy sources. The Government also confirmed that is keen to make the city green when offered 25 percent of housing for low-income owners and renters.
4. Stapleton, Denver, Colorado
www.frontdoor.com
Stapleton is yet another airport that was used for creating new homes, but this one is much bigger than Austin’s – Stapleton is 4700-acres land. Incredible six tons of runway concrete had been used for building bike paths and bridges, while 1100 acres are filled with parks and open space. All of the houses use green technologies. Those who want to live in them could use some of the local government subventions and live in sustainable home only ten minutes from downtown.
5. Zac Bords de Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
www.ecdm.eu
Issy-les-Moulineaux is suburban area of French capital, Paris, and it’s the area of one of the best eco friendly houses projects in France – Zac Bords de Seine. It’s a building settled in the middle of a large garden, which will use lot of the existing green technologies, with the sunlight as main energy source. It’s interesting that trees are planted in the interior of the building, bringing the real outdoor ambient there while also bringing all the benefit by the trees.
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