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recycled buildings: REALLY Recycled Housing! - 06/11/09 01:02 AM
In the process of working with a client who is dedicated to sustainable living, I discovered a really cool company in Austin, TX. These folks really know how to walk the talk. Their homes are built and then hauled to the site ready to be occupied. They are constructed from reclaimed materials.
The materials used are from deconstructed homes and would otherwise wind up in landfills. The utilize passive solar design, great insulation and thoughtful touches like single pitch roofs which makes collecting rain water much simpler. These are designed to be small spaces so they can be relocated but I can't imagine any … (4 comments)
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recycled buildings: Recycled homes Part 3 of 3 - 02/05/09 03:39 PM
There is an ever growing selection of recycled materials that can be used in remodeling or building a home today. Before we look at those though, let's consider another form o recycling. I touched upon this is REUSE but if we consider recycling to be using an object or the materials from which an object is constructed to make a new object or the materials for a new object what about recycling a building for another purpose?
There are examples all across the country of churches, hospitals, barns and lighthouses that have been transformed into living spaces. Firehouses, grain silos and 1950's era … (6 comments)
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recycled buildings: Abandoned Places Recycled? - 12/08/08 12:12 AM
Now and then I write a blog about remodeling and reuse of existing space. Sometimes it is just too true that a picture is worth a thousand words. I subscribe to a blog called the Web Urbanist and sometimes the pictures tell the story that no words can.
This is a picture of an abandoned nursing home in Ohio, just to pique your interest.
Abandoned Houses, Homes, Ghost Towns and Neighborhoods
Imagine what homes and apartments some of these places could make. Some of them absolutely have deteriorated to the point that they can not be salvaged-- but they could have … (8 comments)
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Deb Hurt, ABR, e-Pro,Green, TRC
Albuquerque,
NM
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Address: 6700 Jefferson NE , Suite C-2, Albuquerque, NM, 87109
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My blog is as much about a philosophy of life and living as it is about real estate as a business. E.F. Shumacher subtitled his book SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL "Economics as if People Mattered" In the real estate industry we realize that people matter and that where they live matters. We now also have a larger responsiblity, I believe, to get them to consider HOW they live. Everyone in the developed world using less energy and resources makes it possible for those who have access to neither to experience a better life and to make the difference between their being able to having a roof overhead or not or for their children to eat or not.
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