Earthbag House Plans - Small, Affordable, Sustainable New giant 3D printer can build a house in 24 hours (TruthSeekerDaily) Scientists claim to have developed a revolutionary new giant 3D concrete printer that can build a 2,500-square-foot house in just 24 hours. The 3D printer, developed by Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis from the University of Southern California, could be used to build a whole house, layer by layer, in a single day. The giant robot replaces construction workers with a nozzle on a gantry, which squirts out concrete and can quickly build a home based on a computer pattern, MSN News reported. It is “basically scaling up 3D printing to the scale of building,” said Khoshnevis. ‘Contour Crafting’ is a layered fabrication technology and has great potential for automating the construction of whole structures as well as sub-components, according to the project website. The potential applications of this technology are far reaching including in emergency, low-income, and commercial housing. With the process, large-scale parts can be fabricated quickly in a layer-by-layer fashion.
Is Cycling Safe? Bicycle Living Secrets: The Ultimate How To Guide While we understand that some journeys simply cannot be made by bicycle, after reading the following guide you’ll discover just how many opportunities there are to hop on your bike. Please select your country and provide a valid email address We hate spam as much as you do. Thank you for your submission. In North America, concerns about safety consistently rank as the top deterrents to bicycling. Given that safety concerns affect our choice of travel mode, I often wonder about these perceptions about the relative safety of bicycling, driving, motorcycling, transit, and walking. Comparing is not easy. Of course, numbers don’t indicate risk. The other part of risk is the numerator. With this in mind, what does published data show? Broader international comparisons are available using distance denominators (shown in the second graph). This graph also shows what bicyclists have long known, cycling is much safer in the Netherlands. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Earthbag Building Index Hempcrete: The Green Movement returns to its Roots Smoking a rope made of modern, industrial hemp might cause a headache, but not much else. Why not build houses with it instead? As the Green Movement invents itself, builders are returning to old ideas. Both thick, earthen walls and building underground to reduce heating and cooling expense are old hat these days, but building the traditional, European-style village home requires something different. Three times more durable than concrete Some builders have found their way back to hemp, a fast-growing, highly sustainable plant that produces those famously long, tough fibres. While durability and insulation are the big two, hemp lends itself to greater versatility than just walls and insulation. Dismissing chemical fertilizers, pesticides & weed killers Perhaps more importantly, hemp farming doesn’t require chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or weed killers. Hempcrete has already found a home-building niche in the US, Canada, and Scotland. (thanks to Huffingtonpost.com for the images)
Creating a Store Locator with PHP, MySQL & Google Maps | Google Maps APIs | Google Developers Google Geo APIs TeamAugust 2009 This tutorial is intended for developers who are familiar with PHP/MySQL, and want to learn how to use Google Maps with a MySQL database to create a store locator-type app. After completing this tutorial, you will have a database of locations and a webpage that lets a user enter their address and see markers on a map for the locations nearest to them, within a chosen distance restriction. The tutorial is broken up into the following steps: Creating the Table When you create the MySQL table, you want to pay particular attention to the lat and lng attributes. Note: This tutorial uses location data that already have latitude and longitude information needed to plot corresponding markers. If you prefer interacting with your database through the phpMyAdmin interface, here's a screenshot of the table creation. If you don't have access to phpMyAdmin or prefer using SQL commands instead, here's the SQL statement that creates the table. phpsqlajax_createtable.sql: <? <?
Inicio - Superadobe Cal-Earth Strawbale Innovation in the UK I just spotted this on Shedworking.co.uk. It’s a tiny strawbale house offered by amazonails, the leading strawbale building company in the UK. This tiny house is their answer to a growing demand for tiny strawbale houses. Their website is filled with a lot of alternative building techniques like cement-free tire foundations and using lime instead of cement as a binder for stone and brick. They also provide nice overviews of the various strawbale construction techniques and recommendations for extending insulating qualities of homes. If you’re in the UK, or are inclined to travel, you might want to enroll in one of their workshops or even hire them to consult on your strawbale project.