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Recommended Reading | Urban Core International : Envision Prefab
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. Global Warming Survival Handbook. The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change. Linking Landscapes and Communities. Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville. Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-first Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway. Smart Code V8.0. You are commenti...
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CNU Charter | Urban Core International : Envision Prefab
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. The Congress for the New Urbanism. Views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society’s built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge. We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods...
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Automobile Dependence, Break The Habit | Urban Core International : Envision Prefab
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. Automobile Dependence, Break The Habit. Automobile dependence is a result of the segmentation of residential, commercial and industrial zoning. Naturally, one way to fight that is to change zoning laws and traditional methods of planning. Two types of development / land plans that come to our minds are the TND (Traditional Neighborhood Development) and the TOD (Transit Oriented Development.). A mixed use TOD featuring several hundred...
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GB Materials | Urban Core International : Envision Prefab
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. American Clay uses natural clays, recycled and reclaimed aggregates, and vibrant natural pigments. Bosch has been advancing and improving this design over a 50-year history, when we first introduced our front-loading models in Europe. Today, our machines are so advanced they use 76% less water and almost 72% less energy than conventional models, with more gentle fabric care, superior cleaning results and quieter operation. Green Plan...
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Trains and Monorails and Trolleys, Oh My… But Ultra Light Rail? | Urban Core International : Envision Prefab
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. Trains and Monorails and Trolleys, Oh My… But Ultra Light Rail? Today’s post continues on this week’s transportation theme. A few days ago we posted an article about electric cars and it got us thinking – what about electric forms of mass transportation? So we started researching, and found some of the most interesting new developments we’ve come across in quite some time. And the Vectus PRT. The designers of these smaller cars are s...
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Transportation Anyone? | Urban Core International : Envision Prefab
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. As alternative energy becomes more and more important, we see its effects all over the world. More and more homes are producing energy on site, and more utility companies supplementing traditional power with solar and wind installations. It seems that now we are seeing alternative energy leap into a new industry – automobiles. Hybrids cars such as the prominent Toyota Prius. Makers of the Vespa scooter, whose hybrid. These entirely e...
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USGBC LEED | Urban Core International : Envision Prefab
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. These are the standard guides of the USGBC (United States Green Building Council). Certification on all project types. Please feel free to post in this section in regards to any questions, comments, ideas you may have about LEED rating system and certification. For more information on what it means to be LEED certified, please visit http:/ www.usgbc.org. LEED for New Construction (V2.2). LEED for Existing Buildings. All the best,.
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab | Build Better : Live Better | Page 2
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. Primer edificio verde de Panamá. Contact: Josef Newman, Urban Core International, S.A. July 31, 2007, Panamá City, Panamá: Urban Core International announced today their premiere green building in Panamá, called “Urban Vista,” has been featured in the “lo nuevo” section of the July/August issue of. United States Green Building Council. Urban Core International, S.A. is focused on the development of boutique residential and co...Panam...
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Vroom Vroom! | Urban Core International : Envision Prefab
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. From guest blogger, Stefani Newman, Founder of teensygreen.com. I was talking with my friends over at Urban Core International. My favorite ‘non-bike’ bike for kids is LIKEaBIKE. It’s exactly what the name implies – it’s “not a tricycle, not a toy car, not a bike with. Stabilizers, not a scooter…it’s LIKEaBIKE! This scooter made by Svan. I also love the Plasma Car. These pre-bike and bike alternatives are a great starting point for k...
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Blue Skies Turn Green | Urban Core International : Envision Prefab
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Urban Core International : Envision Prefab. Build Better : Live Better. Blue Skies Turn Green. Most of us have been on at least one flight in our lives, boarding a massive jumbo jet that burns thousands of gallons of fuel to soar through the sky. What you might not know, is how quickly those jets, the companies who build them, and the companies who fly them, are changing industry standards to become more and more sustainable. Remarkable developments from Boeing. Began with the design of the 787 Dreamliner.
