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• Choosing a water tank
  Water tanks, they come in so many different sizes and forms, it is often hard to work out what to choose and why, we can help..
• New Rainwater harvesting calculator
  This new calculator allows you to work out the practical tank size given average per month rainfall, your roof area and expected monthly water usage.

• Rainwater Harvesting Calculator
  Works out what your expected rainfall capture should be over a given year, along with your minimal tank size to have constant water given an average monthly demand. Can take monthly rainfall figures from BOM site direct.

• A green roof disguises this gorgeous villa in Norway
  A historic farm with pristine views of Oslo Fjord has found an utterly modern way of preserving a protected site. A new home designed for the family living on the farm was bermed under a green roof to make it nearly invisible from the road. Outside the...
• Backwards Sky Ranch House offers gorgeous valley views
  Backwards Sky Ranch House by Clayton Korte is embedded into a beautiful landscape, extending from the Dry Frio River in Hill Country, Central Texas, down south to a vast meadow...
• Walk to work at this eco-friendly office tower in India
  Commuting got you down? New Delhi-based architectural practice Design Forum International (DFI) takes traffic jams out of the morning routine with a plan for a "walk to work" office tower dubbed Amtron...
• This sustainable home has a roof that bends like a leaf
  Architecture is more than creating a sound building. It’s a craft that couples personal style and visual appeal with goals for the space. In the case of the Garden House, a project located in Playa Tamarindo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, it’s a family...
• Aztec-inspired eco home sits lightly on the land in Mexico
  When Mexico City-based architecture practice Mauricio Ceballos X Architects (MCXA) was asked to design a home in an ancestral place in Malinalco, it immediately knew that a minimal environmental footprint would be the key to success...
• 19th-century Catalan ruins are revived into a self-sufficient home
  Spanish architecture firm Andrea Solé Arquitectura has given new life to the ruins of Can Tomeu, a historic Catalan building from the 1800s that is now a modern, self-sufficient home...
• Thinking Huts and Studio Mortazavi plan a 3D-printed school in Madagascar
  International architectural firm Studio Mortazavi has teamed up with Colorado-based nonprofit Thinking Huts to propose designs for the world’s first 3D-printed school to be located in southern Madagascar...

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