sustainable design
Dan Orzech's Green Home
Dan Orzech shows Pierre his new home, built as a Green, sustainable home design. Many Japanese style elements were used as part of this beautiful dwelling on the banks of the Schuylkill River near Phoenixville Pennsylvania.
Geothermal heating and cooling, passive solar design, radiant-floor heating, natural clay products, pre-fabricated basement wall panels (structurally integrated or "SIP" panels) and an innovative hot tub (made of a simple concrete cylinder) are all part of this wonderful home.
Blue Spruce Hollow I: Architect David Hartke Builds a LEED/Green Residence
Blue Spruce Hollow, Episode I:
Architect David Hartke showed Pierre his environmentally conscious new home, under construction in Doylestown Pennsylvania. The home is to become a LEED-Certified or 'Green' dwelling with many energy and environmentally-friendly features.
South-facing, the home gains much from solar orientation. Large sheltered porch living spaces will provide several 3-season rooms. The home uses little/no large timbers, relying instead on strong composite materials made from fast-growing woods.
Green Design: The Incredible LEED Platinum Bren School
The amazing Bren School at the University of California at Santa Barbara is a LEED Platinum building with incredibly energy efficient solar technology, fly-ash concrete, an extraordinarily efficient heating/cooling system, and a magnificent web-controlled brain to run it all.
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 4/11/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 24 min. 30 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Stor
