Eco construction

Are you on a journey towards simple living and self-sufficiency but don't know where to start? If so here is how you can become more self-sufficient...

🕑 Reading time: 1 minuteWhat is Zero Energy Building? Difference between Green Building and Zero Energy Buildings Sustainable, Eco and Green buildings try to use maximum benefit of the natural resources and consumes less energy than our current traditional house, while zero energy building concept is 100% use of natural resources and zero energy consumption. […]

In this post we look at rammed earth construction, how it works and some examples of some great rammed earth contemporary projects.

Creating affordable housing solutions in Africa is a key challenge for many countries, and particularly homes that are eco-friendly. But Joelle Eyeson, co-founder of Hive Earth, is bringing a new and innovative solution to Ghana, and one that is replicable across the continent.

Rammed earth is both a building method as well as a material. The rammed earth material is a combination of earth, gravel, silt, clay and lime/cement as a stabilizer combined into a damp mix and is then rammed into forms in order to create a monolithic wall.Rammed earth construction has been around for many years, one of the most popular rammed earth walls in history is part of the great wall of china. Rammed earth construction isn't new, but it's going through a renaissance today. This…

To make green buildings, it is essential that it consists of energy efficient and eco friendly building materials and made by techniques which are eco friendly. Here we have given brief information on few eco friendly building materials, which can help in achieving green buildings to save environment.

With the planet in crisis, we need to do a lot more to improve the sustainability of where we live. Here are five eco friendly home building ideas.

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