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2. Sustainable flooring - Wikipedia

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   This process can be repeated numerous times and in 2009 alone, Shaw's Evergreen facility recycled over 100 million pounds of carpet. This is sustainable and it reduces material sent to landfill; further it uses dyeing methods that are less polluting and require less energy than other flooring.

3. Floor area ratio - Wikipedia

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   An architect can plan for either a single-story building consuming the entire allowable area in one floor, or a multi-story building that rises higher above the plane of the land, but which must consequently result in a smaller footprint than would a single-story building of the same total floor area.

4. Bamboo floor - Wikipedia

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   All these factors keep the carbon footprint low. The United States Green Building Council's LEED program allows points for the use of bamboo floors by virtue of it being a rapidly renewable resource. Since the majority of bamboo timber comes from China, it has to be shipped to the international destinations by boat and then by truck to vendors.

5. Floor area - Wikipedia

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   Hong Kong law Chapter 123F, Building (Planning) Regulations, Regulation 23 sect 3 sub-paragraph (a) defined that: Subject to sub-paragraph (b), for the purposes of regulations 19, 20, 21 and 22, the gross floor area of a building shall be the area contained within the external walls of the building measured at each floor level (including any floor below the level of the ground), together with ...

6. Sustainability in construction - Wikipedia

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   Sustainable construction aims to reduce the negative health and environmental impacts caused by the construction process and by the operation and use of buildings and the built environment. [1] It can be seen as the construction industry 's contribution to more sustainable development .

7. Sustainable design - Wikipedia

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   Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability and also aimed at improving the health and comfort of occupants in a building.