Thoughts from Houston Green Building Expo

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Tadd Miller

I was fortunate to have a few minutes between meetings to stop by the University of Houston’s Green Building Components Expo. Two intriguing products were exhibited that I could see easily implemented into a Milhaus project in the near future: the Botanica air purifier and the Parametric Precast system. The Botanica is an indoor living wall system that can be installed along existing walls using the plants to reduce the number of pollutants purifying indoor air. The Parametric Precast system is a simple and affordable system made of recycled concrete that can allow a stacking application that includes application of solar panels and living walls within the structure. These are the type of products that we need to continue thinking and exploring at Milhaus to continue to understand how to make our projects more sustainable.

One other more complicated product at the event that is the Z-fab home. This product implements a lot of the things Milhaus has spent significant time trying to figure out in the modular multi-family housing space with Clayton Homes and Genesis Homes. This modular implementation would help mitigate numerous issues we deal with in the urban core and mixed-use issues of delivery, staging, timing, and delivery, not to mention the mitigation of waste and implementation of sustainable practices.

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