Green Design and Green Technology

Here at eLine Design we do our Best to design Architecture and other related Designs to meet standards set forth to protect our Environment. All of our Design meet standard bulding codes for Dade County which is the strictest building code in the US due to the high amount of Hurricane damage they experience there

On Every Project we match our CAD Designers to we expect the environmental impact to be minimal without any future complications. We strive to use Green Materials and Green Methods of Design like Solar Panels, Green Recycled Insulation, Water Conserving Toiletries, and other Green materials

Environmental Design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products

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Classical Design may have always considered environmental factors; however, the environmental movement beginning in the 1940′s has made the concept more explicit.

Sustainable Design follows the same definition and is considered to be the same as Environmental Design. The intention of sustainable design is to “eliminate negative environmental impact completely through skillful, and precise design”. Manifestations of sustainable designs require recyclable material, a low impact on the environment, and related people with the natural environment.

Applications of this philosophy range from the microcosm — small objects for everyday use, through to the macrocosm—buildings, cities, and the earth’s physical surface. It is a philosophy that can be applied in the fields of Architecture, landscape architecture, urban design,Engineering, Civil engineering, Mechanical engineering, Structural engineering, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, and fashion design.

Environmental design can also include areas such as electrical engineering and lighting design. In terms of a larger scope, environmental design has implications for the industrial design of products: innovative automobiles, wind-electricity generators, solar-electric equipment, and other kinds of equipment could serve as examples. Currently, the term has expanded to apply to ecological and sustainability issues.

History

The first traceable concepts of environmental designs focused primarily on solar heating, which began in Ancient Greece around 500 BC. At the time, most of Greece had depleted its supply of wood for fuel, leading architects to design houses that would capture the solar energy of the sun. The Greeks understood that the position of the sun varies throughout the year. For a latitude of 40 degrees in summer the sun is high in the south, at an angle of 70 degrees at the zenith, while in winter, the sun travels a lower trajectory, with a zenith of 26 degrees. Greek houses were built with south-facing facades which received little to no sun in the summer but would receive full sun in the winter, warming the house. Additionally, the southern orientation also protected the house from the colder northern winds. This clever arrangement of buildings influenced the use of the grid pattern of ancient cities. With the North-South orientation of the houses, the streets of Greek cities mainly ran East-West.
The practice of solar architecture continued with the Romans, who similarly had deforested much of their native Italian Peninsula by the first century BC. The Roman heliocaminus, literally ‘solar furnace’, functioned with the same aspects of the earlier Greek houses. The numerous public baths were oriented to the south. Roman architects added glass to windows to allow for the passage of light and to conserve interior heat as it could not escape. The Romans also used greenhouses to grow crops all year long and to cultivate the exotic plants coming from the far corners of the Empire. Pliny the Elder wrote of greenhouses that supplied the kitchen of the Tiberius during the year.
Along with the solar orientation of buildings and the use of glass as a solar heat collector, the ancients knew other ways of harnessing solar energy. The Greeks, Romans and Chinese developed curved mirrors that could concentrate the sun’s rays on an object with enough intensity to make it burn in seconds. The solar reflectors were often made of silver, copper or polished brass.
Early roots of modern environmental design began in the late 19th Century with writer/designer William Morris, who rejected the use of industrialized materials and processes in wallpaper, fabrics and books his studio produced. He and others, such as John Russkin felt that the industrial revolution would lead to harm done to nature and workers.

Nowadays, energy efficiency, appropriate technology, organic horticulture or organic agriculture, land restoration, community design, and ecologically sustainable energy and waste systems are recognized considerations or options and may each find application.
By integrating renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic, solar thermal, and even geothermal energy into structures, it is possible to create zero emissions buildings, where energy consumption is self-generating and non-polluting. It is also possible to construct “energy-plus buildings” which generate more energy than they consume, and the excess could then be sold to the grid. In the United States, the LEED Green Building Rating System rates structures on their environmental sustainability. The Future is at hand and one way we can help is by turning to Recyclable Material, and Environmental Technology like Clean Energy.

Environmental Technology also known as Envirotech or Green Technology also known as Green-tech or Clean Technology also known as Clean-tech is the application of the environmental science to conserve the natural environment and resources, also to curb the negative impacts of human involvement. Sustainable Development is the core of environmental technologies. When applying sustainable development as a solution for environmental issues, the solutions need to be socially equitable, economically viable, and environmentally sound.

Please do your part and conserve our environment for the future to come by investing in Green Technology. This is one way we can all do our parts, Thank You.eLine Design is the first site developed to provide Free Custom 3D CAD Designs! These unique 3D Models can be used for Specialized Graphics such as Logos, Profile Images , Avatars, Renderings, and are Great for Web Designers, Web Masters, and Inventors. We provide the Lowest prices on all CAD Services anywhere in the world, and are the only site offering individual Designs for Inventions, Architecture, Floor Plans, 3D Modeling, Mechanical, Civil, Structural, and Electrical Engineering. We also provide excellent services for Green Design, Web Design, SEO and have resources for information on Green Technology and Green Building.