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  2. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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    A classical Trombe wall, also generically called a vented thermal storage wall, has operable vents near the ceiling and floor levels of the mass wall that allow indoor air to flow through them by natural convection. As solar radiation heats the air trapped between the glass and wall and it begins to rise.

  3. Autoclaved aerated concrete - Wikipedia

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    AAC products see use in construction, such as industrial buildings, residential houses, apartment buildings, and townhouses. Their applications include exterior and interior walls, firewalls, wet room walls, diffusion-open thermal insulation boards, intermediate floors, upper floors, stairs, opening crossings, beams, and pillars.

  4. Straw-bale construction - Wikipedia

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    Research has shown that straw-bale construction is a sustainable method for building, from the standpoint of both materials and energy needed for heating and cooling. [ 3 ] Advantages of straw-bale construction over conventional building systems include the renewable nature of straw, cost, easy availability, naturally fire-retardant and high ...

  5. Alternative natural materials - Wikipedia

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    Alternative natural materials are natural materials like rock or adobe that are not as commonly used as materials such as wood or iron. Alternative natural materials have many practical uses in areas such as sustainable architecture and engineering. The main purpose of using such materials is to minimize the negative effects that built ...

  6. Cob (material) - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of cob and cobbing is unclear, but in several senses means to beat or strike, [4] which is how cob material is applied to a wall. Many similar materials and methods of earthen building are used around the world, such as adobe, [5] lump clay, [5] puddled clay, chalk mud, [5] wychert, [5] clay daubins, [5] swish , [6] torchis ...

  7. Structural insulated panel - Wikipedia

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    The panels can be used as floor, wall, and roof, with the use of the panels as floors being of particular benefit when used above an uninsulated space below. As a result, the total life-cycle cost of a SIP-constructed building will, in general, be lower than for a conventional framed one—by as much as 40%.

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