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| Producing cement in the desert – Holcim Apasco plant in Hermosillo, Mexico
This book features a brief technical description of all production stages and an explanation of the green buildings, giving an inspiring view of the latest milestone on Holcim’s journey toward sustainable development. It is a valuable book for learning about and promoting sustainable construction and advocating sustainable cement production.
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| Green factory in Sri Lanka – MAS Intimates Thurulie
This clothing factory is a visionary departure from standard approaches. It claims to be the world’s first clothing factory powered solely by carbon-neutral sources.
The factory creates an environment that is conducive to lean manufacturing. The production floor is divided into separate areas where workers collaborate in teams, enhancing productivity and employee satisfaction, with the payback period for the extra cost of making the building sustainable is only five years.
 Green factory in Sri Lanka (PDF, 3MB)
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| A model urban building – Development Alternatives world headquarters, India
The project is a showcase of traditional, environmentally efficient construction materials and systems that can be economically developed for low-energy mass production and adopted by the mainstream building industry, especially in developing countries.
The new office building tests innovative, specially designed elements and components such as a hybrid air-handling unit that incorporates evaporative cooling and refrigerant-based cooling in a new way to reduce energy consumption for air conditioning by 30 percent. Water consumption is also substantially reduced, recycled and used for irrigation or to recharge groundwater.
Office building in India (PDF, 8.3MB)
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 | | Community center in South Africa - improving quality of life – through architecture
A community-service and recycling facility situated in a poverty-stricken informal settlement of Cape Town applied a formal methodology for sustainable construction to achieve far more than just the creation of a new building. The book explains how the center respects the Rio Agenda of balanced social, environmental, and economic performance, and at the same time defines a new vernacular architectural language and also provides a model of sustainable building in low-income communities.
Community center in South Africa – booklet (PDF, 8.7MB)
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