Sustainable building practices aren’t just about reducing carbon footprints. They’re about creating homes that are efficient, comfortable, and valuable. From energy-efficient upgrades to eco-friendly materials, these features that enhance property value sustainably are here to stay.
Photography
Free Stock Center
Designing a home involves careful planning, using energy-efficient systems, implementing water-saving techniques, and choosing sustainable materials. These steps are crucial for reducing our impact without sacrificing convenience or functionality.
Photography
Atlas Company
You're building your dream home—sustainable, energy-efficient, kind to the planet. You've got solar panels in mind, rainwater harvesting, and recycled materials. But there's a crucial professional behind the scenes, making this eco-friendly dream a reality: the electrician.
Written by
Herbert Harris
There are endless innovative solutions to decrease a building’s carbon footprint in its architecture, installations, and layout. This section will cover the best ways to make commercial buildings greener in every step of the design process from access control to passive design.
Written by
Jennifer Seene
Photography
Gardens by the Bay, courtesy Grant Associates (cover image). Murray Fredericks
This house was built as a secondary house combining earth, wood and stone structures with very traditional Moroccan finishings: Tadelakt in wall, earth tiles in the ground, sculptured cedar wood, Ourika Stones in the façade and roofs with eucalyptus and bamboo.
Project name
Bsabess Ecodome
Architecture firm
Ecodome Maroc
Location
Bsabess, Benslimane, Morocco
Photography
Ecodome Maroc
Principal architect
Youness Ouazri
Material
Earth, Wood and Stone
Construction
Ecodome Maroc
Typology
Residential › House
