The Middleton Group Plan Book
We have created an online plan book for clients looking for a great plan, but don’t want to pay for a full custom design. Plans start at $495 for small plans and go up from there. Currently we have just one design posted, but we will be adding more in the coming months. Also, if you would like us to create a plan for you, and don’t mind us reselling it, we can create a custom plan for much cheaper. Please be aware that you may need modifications of the plans and structural engineering drawings depending on where you would like to build your house. Please contact us with any specific questions you may have.
Permeable Pavers
Discover a new genus of paver, ideal for both residential and commercial hardscapes. Belgard’s Environmental pavers are attractive, all-weather durable and most important, eco-friendly.
The perfectly natural way to protect our earth’s most vital resources. Every paver allows water to permeate and directly enter the ground, thereby reducing the negative effects of run-off on local watersheds, and ultimately the lakes, rivers and seas downstream.
(Via Belgard Hardscapes.)
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Sustainability Requires Durability
- Image via Wikipedia
A great piece on why we must build durable buildings to be “green” buildings. A new house or new building is not very “green” if the life expectancy is 50 years compared to 100 or 200 years.
Green buildings must be durable buildings. If you double the life of a building, no matter what the building is made of, you halve the environmental impact of its construction. But aren’t we building durable green buildings?
(Via Greensource Magazine.)
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BIM – The Technology We Use
At the Middleton Group we use Revit, one of the leading BIM programs out there. At its core, BIM is a database, which allows us to build your house in the computer and extract whatever information we need. Read the link below to get a good overview of the technology.
At its core, BIM, or building information modeling, is exactly what its name implies: an information-rich digital model of a building. Try to pin down exactly what it does or how it works, however, and things quickly get a bit slippery. The more you learn, it seems, the more there is to learn.
Everyone Loves BIM (Whatever It Is) | greenbuildingsNYC
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