Sustainability & Us

C. F. Møller Architects have designed a proposal for the pilot-project Housing+, for 60 zero-energy housing units on the Aalborg Waterfront. The design adhered to stringent energy goals through a combination of architectural design and user-focused technical innovation.

 

The Housing+ concept sets the ambitious target of a zero-energy housing scheme, which also includes the tenant’s primary household energy consumption. The complex will thus be 100% relying on renewables.

 

Central to the concept is the use of integrated energy-design to generate the concept of tomorrow’s housing, producing more energy than it consumes. This is achieved by optimizing the inherent passive gains of the main volume, and shaping it to take advantage of the orientation and potential for active solar energy-collection.

 

Visit the link for more images and details on this contemporary, green design that incorporates solar, passive strategies, and on-site renewable energy.

Via Lauren Moss, AlGonzalezinfo

Renewable energy enjoys broad support in the US where people expect the government to support emerging clean power technologies but check out what the surveys are finding...

 

Americans more concerned about the state of the economy than the threat of climate change: - - 41% of respondents ranked climate change in the lowest category as a threat facing the world - 51% ranked the economic recession in the highest category in the recent 2012 Global Consumer Wind Study.

 

 

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Via Lauren Moss