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Derelict Cottage      Eco-Design ... Designing for true sustainability - by:
  • Using only local renewable sources for materials and energy
  • Creating harmony between people and the environment
  • Making the right structures for resilient communities
  • Saving our built heritage through sensitive conservation
  • Creating new buildings with positive environmental qualities
  • Helping to reduce the rate of human-aided global warming
  • Enhancing quality of life for the occupants of the building
  • Using new efficient technology to replace old inefficient technology

Eco-Design ...

Does not always have clear solutions.

 

The remains of the cottage shown above is a perfect example of vernacular architecture but it might not prove easy to restore sustainably.

 Re-useable BridgeThe steel bridge on the left uses recyclable materials  - steel and timber (about 97% of steel in use in the UK today has been recycled) and is designed to be demounted and re-used in another location - so has excellent sustainable credentials.

Eco-Design ... Must be an integrated process, through total co-operation between architect, engineer and client from the start, in selecting:

  • A suitable site
  • An overall sustainable design concept
  • Materials and their procurement
  • Construction methods and sustainable building management
  • Renewable Energy & Zero-carbon technologies
  • Water conservation methods
  • Transport and Waste requirements to eliminate pollution
  • Enhancement measures for local Ecology & Eco-systems
  • Healthy materials and processes

 

 

 could this be an example of sustainable transport?