Professional Green Home Designs
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The Green movement has seen a considerable evolution since the early 70s. Those momentous years of the Peace Movement, Vietnam War and the twilight zone of hippie culture, building Green was still emerging. Open a brochure of Green Home designs from the 70s and probably what stared out at you were structures shaped like anthills or cave dwellings. You wondered at the sanity of it all.
Environment, ecology and living with the nature were very much a concept then, but was the domain of few people. What has changed from the 70s to the present day is that building Green homes has very much become an enterprise being seriously attempted by reputed builders and encouraged by various governments. A trendy concept of the 70s has now transformed into an official mascot of many a nations.
Professional touch was lacking in the efforts at building Green homes in the 70s. Then people tried to replicate natural designs of indigenous people with out really attempting to have a convergence with modern day living. A scientific effort at building Green home designs was more or less absent in the 70s. Modern day avatars of Green home designs follow a rigid certification code in many counties in the world. The Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) is an initiative that sets standards for Green Home designs in the US. The same standards have been incorporated by some countries while others have evolved their own. In the 70s, Green home designs tended to concentrate on stand alone projects. Present day evolution looks at Green Home designs as a full fledged eco system. All aspects of the environment, architecture and every avenue for using indigenous methods and recycled materials is explored in a holistic manner.
Science too has played an important role in the evolution of Green home designs. Computers with their enormous computing powers of today were just not available in the 70s. Computer Aided Designs (CAD) with wind flow computations and solar capture calculations make designing Green homes far more efficient than the 70s. Even greening of construction materials has received an impetus thanks to advances in science. Nature friendly, recycled products, made possible by advances in science are regularly used by construction companies. For example, cement an important ingredient in any construction today can be mixed with Fly ash, a waste product, which is just as efficient as original cement. As our environmental challenges increase and more and more countries recognize that it is our responsibility to conserve our resources, building Green homes has become an internationally recognized initiative. Designing Green homes has thus traveled from the 70s niche market to the more regular world today.
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