Sustainable Building - Canadian student's project

Check this out .. college students from Flemming College in Canada, building a sustainable building (Camp Kawartha Environment Centre) with these great features

• Geothermal heating and cooling
• Radiant floors
• Living roof seeded with local plants
• Solar hot water
• Grid-tied solar panel PV power
• Net-zero energy design supplying evenly back to the grid at peak demand hours
• Pre-fabricated and built-on-site straw bale walls
• Rain water collection to supply all building water use
• Indoor constructed wetland water purification system
• Passive solar design
• Super insulative straw bale, hempcrete and rammed earth construction
• Only thatch roof in Ontario, locally harvested grasses
• Cordwood benches

I hope other colleges and universities especially in Malaysia will encourage similar research and projects to find a sustainable building suitable for the local climate. It will also be a great way to instill the importance of living sustainably.