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Plug+Play Construction – Panels stuffed with wires and pipes, preassembled on a factory floor, make high tech green building a snap.

This room and two more like it hold the house’s high tech systems. It arrived at the site as a single unit stuffed with a tankless water heater, pumps, and other equipment ready to hook into the air, water, data, and power systems.

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/home1.html

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Colorado Rockies: Computer-controlled climate analysis harmonizes this home’s interior with external weather conditions. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/home2.html

Brooklyn: An industrail building gets a facelift that includes soy-foam and recycled steel. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/home3.html

Los Angeles: With refrigerator panels for walls, this beach house acts like a giant ice box by preventing serious energy loss. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/home4.html

Austin: A water-cooled AC system silently cranks up the energy efficiency in the scorching Texas heat. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/home5.html

Manhattan: A geothermal pump and styrofoam walls bring natural heating to the Big Apple. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/home6.html

Seattle: An irrigation system fed by rainwater and an insulating rooftop garden take advantage of the Pacific Northwest weather. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/home7.html

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Robo-builder threatens the brickie

Robert Booth

IS THE writing on the wall for the brickie? Engineers are racing to unveil the world’s first robot capable of building a house at the touch of a button.

The first prototype — a watertight shell of a two-storey house built in 24 hours without a single builder on site — will be erected in California before April.

Full Story: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2546574,00.html

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