Sustainable Development

Sustainable building materials are more than just re-cycled or re-used materials. To be truly sustainable the material has to be examined from the time it was harvested as a raw material, to when it needs to be disposed of.

Considerations: Price, environmental and health impacts, energy consuption, waste, emissions, and the resources ability to renew itself.

Sustainable homes. If you could build a house that was healthier for your family as well as the environment would you?

More people are concerned with the carbon footprints of their homes. But now with environmentally friendly building materials, your home can be a sustainable one, which benefits the surrounding environment and is healthier for your family.

Local materials for sustainable building. Local materials are the most common, because they reduce the energy needed in transportation.

Sustainable Building Materials that are not made from recycled resources MUST be highly RENEWABLE. For example renewable materials such as straw, hay, adobe, bamboo, cork and clay, can be renewed quickly when harvested, have low or no emission rates, and have energy conservation qualities. They are natural materials and build healthier more eco-friendly homes.

Recycled Material are anything from steel, to granite, to polyurethane.

So use these materials, most of the time they even cost less than the traditional building materials.