Green Home Building

Life cycle of a Green Home

Despite a real trend towards green home building, in these days of faster and faster replacement of things such as clothing, appliances, technology and cars it may come as no surprise that homes are being replaced (knock-down-rebuild) ever  more quickly.

Often a defining feature of deciding that green home building is that it’s important to you that is it built to last, not to become ‘unfashionable’ because it may not have been fashionable in the first place.  In fact, as with most things, the longer your home lasts the greener it is.

Considerations such as the durability, replace-ability and the life-cycle of materials and inclusions in a green home can often mean that decades later the home is as comfortable and easy to live in as the day you moved in.  This could become a major factor in green home building as resources become increasingly expensive and the move to sustainable building practices becomes more main stream.