Concrete Homes- Environmentally Friendly
source: http://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete-homes/environment.html
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Green building involves designing and building a home—on the inside and out—to maximize performance and conserve resources. A green home consumes less energy, water and natural resources; creates less waste; and is healthier and more comfortable for the occupants—all qualities that are easily achieved by using concrete and ICFs.
LEED for Homes—a new voluntary system for rating the environmental performance of a home—will allow builders to earn points for constructing homes in ways that reduce the negative impact on the environment.
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Wetdog
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It takes 4.7 MBTUs to produce one ton of concrete. At at average of around 30~35% thermal efficiency--it takes approximately 1 ton of coal to produce one ton of concrete.
Coal comes from strip mines. Strip mines destroy the earth and its ability to grow plant life. Strip mines destroy water sheds and leach acid that kills everything it touches. Coal pollutes the air and causes acid rain that can spread over hundreds to thousands of square miles.
Cutting down forests does not destroy the environment. So long as you plant new trees to replace the trees that you cut down---there will always be forests. If you plant a few more trees than you cut everytime, you will eventually end up with more trees than you cut down. When you strip mine coal and take out the coal, then burn it----you not only no longer have any coal, you will also no longer have any trees or forests where the strip mine was for hundreds or thousands of years.
Concrete is not environmentally friendly.
- 2 years ago
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Wetdog
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mefcclv
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I would imagine that most building materials take energy to produce. Wood for example. Look past the damage it does to cut down forests, it takes a ton of energy to mill the wood for use, fuel for transportation, and the maintenance required to keep it up over years of use. Concrete plants can be put up almost anywhere there is aggregate so that will reduce the transportation energy, and once in place it does not need further maintenance expect maybe sealing it. I think you statement is very one sided. I'm not an expert this is just my opinion, from a Las Vegas Stained Concrete guy. And everyone knows what they say about opinions.
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- 2 years ago
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mefcclv
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Wetdog
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Producing concrete uses massive amounts of energy---which produce enormous amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Concrete construction does not reduce the negative impact on the environment.
- 4 years ago
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Wetdog
