Earth, ships and sustainable materials
These are old parts on a car that are used as iinsulating, thermal-mass-filled walls in many earthship designs.
What are tires?
True or false building an earth ship usually requires the same type of permits as other houses and most jurisdictions.
What is true permits are usually required. Local rules still apply.
This famous Mexican city museum was striking architecture and large shiny façade was munching in a class video
What is Museo Soumaya?
You don’t always need to be the best builder to be a construction manager, but you do need strong skills in these two areas: planning and _______.
What is communication and coordination?
The process designers used to trust ideas make prototypes and solve real war problems as commonly called this
What is designed thinking/problem-solving?
A living area in earthship where plants grow indoors and help with temperature humidity and water treatment is called this.
What is a greenhouse?
If someone asks “is building an earthship easy? “A good short answer is: it can be labor-intensive and requires special design knowledge; it is often ________ than standard builds.
What is more hands-on or more difficult or more labor intensive?
Planting green walls and vegetation along highways can improve mood and reduce stress. What angry behavior was reduced while driving.
What is road rage?
Someone who learns a trade on the job under a skilled worker and can become certified as part of this pathway into construction jobs.
What is an apprenticeship??
What item that is commonly discarded used to make creative design, designs, and wall walls, hint it makes sunsets that much better
What is glass bottles?
Earth ships often use natural media beds and layers of gravel, sand and charcoal to clean water. This movement of water through a soil and rock is called this kind of filtration?
What is soil rock, filtration or bio filtration or gravel bad filtration?
Approximately how much was the Earthship in the video we watched in class cost US dollars?
What is $150,000?
Programs that use recycled or up cycle materials and higher formally incarcerated people to help cities do two things create jobs and support blank for people re-entering society.
What is workforce reintegration or rehab rehabilitation/social inclusion?
Name, two office tools or logs a construction manager uses track materials, and money on a project.
What are cost? logs, material logs, delivery logs payment request or lead time tracking?
Floating homes adapt to changing water levels what helps the houses stay afloat and move with the water levels?
What is cork?
What comes from sinks, showers and laundry and can be reused for irrigation after treatment is called this.
What is gray water?
Name two practical barriers to building an earth ship and many cities.
What are permits/regulatory restrictions and limited access to skilled labor, zoning problems, financial insurance issues or utility hook up challenges?
why was the church in Mexico the center of the city what is social religious and civic centers centers they were the focal point for the cities, layout and community life?
What is religion, for example Catholicism or Christianity for social and civic reasons?
A construction manager’s job often includes preventing problems before they happen. This process of anticipation in solving problems early is called _______.
What is proactive planning or risk mitigation or preconstruction planning?
How can colors in public art in a city affect people’s experience of a place give one short idea
What is improve mood create identity make spaces feel safer attract visitors. Reflect culture.
Using reused bottles, tires and local soil instead of new manufactured materials to reduce waist and cost as an example of this building approach.
What is material reuse or recycled material construction/sustainable materials?
A sustainable roof system that captures rainwater and supports plants is called this.
What is a green roof or living roof?
Name what famous art piece by a French artist Rodin was displayed the Museo Soumaya
What is the thinker?
List three different career paths and construction (mixed trades and professional roles)
What are carpenter electrician, HVAC tech, welder, architect, civil engineer, construction manager, estimator, urban planner, landscape, architect?
Imagine a future neighborhood that is climate resilient, and low energy name to design features you would expect to find there
What is greenhouses solar panels rainwater collection earth ships compost piles community gardens?