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Eco-Architecture 2006Unlike the mechanistic buildings it replaces, Eco-Architecture is in harmony with nature, including its immediate environs.
Decisions have to be taken on ecological grounds concerning locations, siting and orientation, as well as the well-informed choice of materials.
Eco-Architecture makes every effort to minimise the use of energy at each stage of the building's life cycle, including that embodied in the extraction and transportation of materials, their fabrication, their assembly into the building and ultimately the ease and value of their recycling when the building's life is over.
The design may also take into consideration the use of energy in building maintenance and changes in its use, not to mention its lighting, heating and cooling, particularly where the energy consumed involves the emission of greenhouse gases.
Substantial savings can be achieved by passive energy systems, especially natural ventilation, summer shading and winter solar heat gain.
Solar energy may be used in panels of pipes for heating water and photo-voltaic cells.
Eco-Architecture 2006 will took place between 14th and 16th June 2006 in the New Forest, UK.
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