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    In the rising issues of global warming, depletion of natural resources, sustainable development and green materials, technology is essential to provide comfortable and affordable homes for us.



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      This link has not been checked.Advanced Buildings
      Excellent: A building professional's guide to more than 90 environmentally-appropriate technologies and practices.

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006BTC - Buildings Technology Center
      "to identify, develop, and deploy sustainable and energy-efficient building system technologies by forming partnerships between the public sector and private industry for analysis, well-characterized experiments, technology development, and market outreach. "

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006Building Science .com
      "rovides objective, high-quality information about buildings. This resource combines building physics, systems design concepts, and an awareness of sustainability to promote the design and construction of buildings that are more durable, healthier, more sustainable and more economical than most buildings built today."

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006Center for the Built Environment, U of Berkeley
      mission is to improve the design, operation, and environmental quality of buildings by providing timely, unbiased information on building technologies and design techniques.

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006CERF
      created by This link was checked on Dec. 2006ASCE, aimed to "advance productivity, performance, and sustainability in the design and construction industry through innovation and collaboration"

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006Energy Efficiency directory by DMOZ
      Web resources by Search engine category on energy efficiency by DMOZ.

      This link has not been checked.ENR-Engineering News-Record
      " business and technical news needed by anyone who makes a living in or from the construction industry."

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006Future Fundations
      "This website is the first step in drawing out what the principles of Sustainable Construction might mean in practice. "

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006NREL High Performance Buildings Research
      "improving commercial buildings by ..."

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006Office of Building Technology:
      Building technology site for Homeowners, Commercial Building Owners and Operators, Builders and Designers Researchers

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006Rocky Mountain Institute
      "a nonprofit research and educational organization whose goal is to foster the efficient and sustainable use of resources as a path to global security."

      This link was broken when checked on Dec. 2006STIC - Science and Technology Information Centre, Taiwan, China
      "to promote the sci-tech research and development by facilitating the dissemination of sci-tech information across Taiwan as well as other parts of the world.". This link was broken when checked on Dec. 2006Links to Canadian Industry

      This link was checked on Dec. 2006Sustainable Building Sourcebook
      A reknowned site

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    Photovoltaics: taking in the sun, by Halsall, P., 2002
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    Technological regimes, path dependency and the environment, by Berkhout, F., 2002
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    The solar envelope: its meaning for energy and buildings, Building form and environmental performance: archetypes, analysis and an arid climate, by Knowles, R. L., Ratti, C., Raydan, D. and Steemers, K., 2003


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