Howard's projects with Gaia Architects included some of Scotland's earliest ecological buildings, often born out of seeing how a community's aspirations could be realised through sports, leisure and tourism facilities.
This paper analyzes design methods of ecological architecture from aspects of water utilization, energy utilization and ecological buildings, etc, and explores relationships of man-nature-environment, so as to start architects' thoughts in resolutions to effects on environment from the source.
According to Spa Finder, which recently codified its definition: "Eco-spas are set in natural or protected areas and incorporate organic gardening, water conservation and ecological building design.
The Houghton-le-Spring Primary Care Centre in Sunderland, a state-of-the-art ecological building, combines health and social care facilities, with an emphasis on exercise and hecological
Inexpensive and elementary to assemble, the main aim of the school was to generate a new, sustainable and ecological building system for the teeming population of Africa's coastal regions.
They are small and oily fish, rarely eaten by humans but critical as an ecological building block because they are consumed by birds and land mammals as well as larger (and more lucrative for fishermen) fish like cod and lobster.
But menhaden — which is rich in Omega 3 fatty acids and is also known as bunker or pogy, depending where you live — is also an ecological building block, serving as a crucial food for larger fish like tuna, striped bass and bluefish, as well as birds and marine mammals.
Furthermore, there are many definitions of concepts such as bio-construction, bioclimatic architecture, ecological building, sustainable construction and others which have the same objective.
Finally, hoping that the research and exploration of this paper, providing reference to the design and analysis method for ecological building in Lhasa in the future, and other cities also can be used for reference.
Portuguese developers Pelicano plan to make the One Planet Living concept - integrating ecological building design, sustainable livelihoods, and nature conservation - a reality in Matas de Sesimbra, south of Lisbon, as Gail Rajgor reports.
Subsequently a range of more specific climatologies have developed; bioclimatology, ecological climatology, building climatology, material climatology etc.
