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Alt. Build Blog: Installing Large Size Sun Room Windows
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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, February 10, 2014. Installing Large Size Sun Room Windows. After having built and lived in quite a few passive solar sun rooms over the last 40 years. I have come up with a good way to set the large double glazed glass units. That are commonly used for such rooms. About a year and a half ago we purchased a passive solar heated adobe fixer upper. And to do this we needed to cut out p...
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Alt. Build Blog: Tips On Building Dry Stack Stone Walls #7: More On Steps
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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, March 31, 2014. Tips On Building Dry Stack Stone Walls #7: More On Steps. In the last post we looked at a set of steps with three treads:. Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #6: Steps. And this time let's look at a longer set of steps. Please refer to the previous post as some of the important fundamentals for steps. That I included there will not be repeated here. For a stairw...
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Alt. Build Blog: Building An Adobe Wall: #2 Getting Started
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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, December 1, 2014. Building An Adobe Wall: #2 Getting Started. After the first post in this series. Where we looked at how to build the stone foundation for our adobe wall. We will now take a look at making the "gringo blocks",. And setting up our mud mixing area for making the adobe mortar that will be used with our bricks. All of the posts to date are:. But of course I have a diffe...
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Alt. Build Blog: Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #2: Getting Stone
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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, February 24, 2014. Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #2: Getting Stone. In the previous post we took a look at the need for erosion control in our project area. And the tools that we would use in building our dry stack stone walls. The posts to date in this continuing series are:. Tips On Building Dry Stack Stone Walls #1: Project, Tools. To minimize disruption to the area.
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Opportunities — Students of the World
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Plot your next great project. Are you an Oscar -winning filmmaker seeking to make a statement, or a more earthbound auteur looking to launch your career? Either way, you came to the right place. Here, we carefully curate rewarding production, distribution and professional development opportunities for you to choose from. Have a look. And keep coming back. Have an opportunity you'd like to feature here? Oct 19, 2015. Oct 19, 2015. Filmmaker/Editor Needed for Music Video Production. Oct 19, 2015. The count...
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Alt. Build Blog: Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #6: Steps
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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, March 24, 2014. Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #6: Steps. In this post I want to go into how I build stone steps in the landscape. As part of the dry stack stone walls that I have already shown. We will look at how I selected and installed the three steps you see above. For safety one should never attempt building steps, inside or out,. The angle formed by the riser and tre...
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Summit Speakers | Net Zero Energy Coalition
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Projects & News. Sponsors & Partners. Gordon Shields Scholarship Fund. 2016 Getting to Zero Forum. 2015 Summit Program and Report. Zero Energy Case Studies. Research & Resources. To Zero and Beyond Blog. 2016 Getting to Zero Forum. 2015 Summit Program and Report. Owner, Habitat Studio. F) heating degree day climate. Habitat Studio has also built more than 35 houses with ratings of 86 or better under Canada’s Energuide Rating System. He currently has 4 more net zero energy houses under construction. Chief...
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The characters • Eco-logis
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They are self-builders, architects, engineers, artists, researchers, activists… and act on there own scale to build a better world! Born in a family of architects, Simón Vélez followed in the family’s traditional footsteps but he focused on the use of Guadua, a kind of endemic Colombian bamboo. Http:/ www.simonvelez.net/. After being one of the leaders of the Sandinista revolutionary movement in Nicaragua, Dulce Maria went to the autonomous national University of Managua to read architecture. After worki...
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The characters • Eco-logis
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They are self-builders, architects, engineers, artists, researchers, activists… and act on there own scale to build a better world! Born in a family of architects, Simón Vélez followed in the family’s traditional footsteps but he focused on the use of Guadua, a kind of endemic Colombian bamboo. Http:/ www.simonvelez.net/. After being one of the leaders of the Sandinista revolutionary movement in Nicaragua, Dulce Maria went to the autonomous national University of Managua to read architecture. After worki...
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Alt. Build Blog: Building A Well House #10: Finishing Up
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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, February 3, 2014. Building A Well House #10: Finishing Up. To conclude this series on Building A Well House I want to show how we built the door,. Some final landscaping, and finally a photo collage of the project from start to finish. And here are links to the whole series:. Building A Well House #1: Rubble Fill Foundation. Building A Well House #2: Dry Stack Cement Block. With foi...