More generally, climate-change experts predict increasingly extreme weather and rising sea levels as the planet warms.The impact of flooding can be blunted by more sensible house-building (designated flood plains in housing developments, for example, or raised floors, or even putting the main living spaces upstairs).
Osborne has tightened his fiscal straitjacket still further, stifling sensible housing investment at a time when it has never been more needed or less costly.
"We've got to look at the infrastructure to support sensible housing growth," he said.
The walls not only have ears and eyes, but in Scenocosme and Lola and Yukao Meet's interactive environment La maison sensible (The sensitive house), they have feelings.
Stickley was also concerned with metalwork & gardens and the sensible design of houses.
It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.
On the other hand, inside the house, the sensible heat ratio in the air for the cooling effect is a majority of sensible energy.
Shortly after Garrard took office, the state commissioners of public buildings reported to the legislature that it would be more financially sensible to construct a house for the governor and his large family than to rent living quarters for them for the duration of his term.
Sometimes it is more sensible to leave your house looking like a squat.
The concrete makes the front of the house opaque, sensible because it faces the road, while the side facing the ocean is transparent.
