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    Architect Plans Ahead: Harvests Utah Rainwater

    AJC Architects have thought ahead to a hotter Utah in the sensible ideas incorporated into their  Wetland Discovery Point educational building that helps educate Utah schoolchildren about nature. These are the green ideas in order of importance to sustainable design: On-site solar panels for green electricity – to make net zero energy onsite; Solar thermal […]

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    Zero Energy Houses Creating a New Design Vernacular:

    The traditional gabled roof that we are all familiar with was engineered to slough off snowfall. But in an uncertain post peak oil future of possible energy shortages and water shortages, more and more houses are showing up with simple roofshapes engineered to maximize solar power generation, but also to harvest their own rainwater.

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