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.
The concept of living with the nature, environmentally friendly initiatives was very much a part then, but was the preserve of some 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. So what started out as a popular cultural idea in the 70s, has now gained the stamp of international approval.
In the 70s there was no real professional effort at building Green homes. 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. In the US, The Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) is an initiative that sets standards for Green Home designs. 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. In the 70s powerful computers were not available. Computer Aided Designs (CAD) with wind flow computations and solar capture calculations make designing Green homes far more efficient than the 70s. Scientific progress has also helped green materials used in construction. Nature friendly, recycled products, made possible by advances in science are regularly used by construction companies. A typical example is of Fly ash, a waste product which can as well be used in mixed cement with same qualities. The global environmental challenges are forcing countries to understand the need to conserve our resources. Designing Green homes has thus traveled from the 70s niche market to the more regular world today.
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