Real Estate Documentation

Documentation on Processes and Technologies

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Building Design

• Project Requirements
• Illustration of the features
• Sketchup of the design

Building Materials

• Earth Brick Walls
  • Video on Earth Bricks
  • Earth Brick Constructions for Cold Climates
  • CMHC Info on Earth Bricks
• Earth Brick Machine
  • Auram Presses,  India (small manual presses - ideal for low cost/lower speed self construction)
  • North America (higher production automated machines)
    • Hydraform machine,(can build double-walls for one building with living area of about 2,000 ft/200 m² in a month)
    • Midwest Earth Builders Wisconsin, US
    •  EarthTek Inc, New Mexico, US
• Fiberglass Roof Deck      
   
• Insulation
  • Cellulose Insulation
    • Overview on Cellulose Insulation
    • Cellulose Insulation - Rona
    • Cellulose Insulation - Home Depot
    • Straw Bale Insulation
    • Heat Insulation Performance of Straw Bales and Straw Bale Walls, Vienna University of Technology
      • Answers to concerns about fire and resistance and moisture with strawbale insulation
  • Insulating Shutters with Fiberglass/Polyurethane.
• Energy
  • Integrated Solar Energy Roof system
  • Solar Hot Air and Electricity
  • Non toxic salt batteries
  • Domestic Biogas Plant
  • Stratified Water Tank

Urban Forest & Natural Landscaping

• Natural Pools (Optional)
• Reference material
  • Canadian Urban Forest Network
  • Urban Fruit Farming

Electric Vehicles and Transport

• Fleet of car sharing vehicles models offered
  • Nissan Leaf Model
  • Smart electric
  • Tesla Model X (4 wheel drive)
  • Kia Soul Electric
  • Electrically Converted Pickups
  • Bio-diesel tractors
• Public Transport/Buses
  • Lion School Bus
  • Electrically converted Mini Buses

• Parking, road and paths construction material
  • Green Parking Lots
  • Compressed Earth Street bricks
  • Polypavement - Alternative to asphalt and maintenance intensive gravel roads

Water Management

• Water production and treatment (beyond wells)
  • Rain Maker from Manoj Bhargava/Billions in Change
• Waste Water Treatment
  • Ecoflow treatment system