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Michael G. Smith Writes about the Value of Cob

Natural Building

They look like a pretty diverse bunch, but they all have at least two things in common: They are here to learn to build their own environmentally friendly homes, and all of them are splattered with mud from head to toe. I attended my first natural building workshop in Oregon in 1993.

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Two Week Natural Building Intensive

Natural Building

Most of each day will be spent practicing a wide range of hands-on natural building systems, some ancient and time-tested, others experimental. The building you see here is the building we will be working on. He helped organize the first Natural Building Colloquium in 1994. Instructors: Michael G.

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Are Green Building Rating Systems Really Sustainable?

Natural Building

The following are her thoughts about green buildings and the rating systems that score them. Despite greater efficiencies and more greenery, buildings increasingly consume energy and resources, forget the poor, and cannibalize the natural life-support system. It is no longer enough to “do no harm”. .

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Revit OpEd: Reference Plane IsReference Parameter

Revit OpEd

Programmers comment their code, as much to help them remember why they did what they did as well as what the code is supposed to do. Builds and Updates. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Revit OpEd: Egress Path Options

Revit OpEd

Ideal we should be able to provide a total length of travel from one place to an exit, identify the length of any segment of the path and provide a clear descriptive way to show how our design meets codes in plan views, at a minimum. Builds and Updates. Ive also been a part of the consulting team for CDV Systems since 2005.

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Revit OpEd: Revit 2013 - Sunshine

Revit OpEd

Builds and Updates. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Kiwi Codes - Project Browser for 2013. Revit Consultant - Revit Training, Revit Implementation and Navisworks I started using Revit at work in 2002. No comments: Post a Comment.

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Revit OpEd: Revit 2013 - View References

Revit OpEd

Builds and Updates. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Kiwi Codes - Project Browser for 2013. Revit Consultant - Revit Training, Revit Implementation and Navisworks I started using Revit at work in 2002. Post a Comment. Newer Post.