http://www.gizmag.com When we think green house emissions, fume spewing factories and highways choked with gas guzzling vehicles are usually the first images that spring to mind, but it may surprise some readers to learn that buildings represent a sizeable chunk of our collective carbon footprint. In America, it's estimated that buildings contribute to 36% of energy consumption and 30% of green house gas emissions and it's an area that's ripe for improvement. Innovative American building company Vitruvian is doing just that by offering a full service green building system that utilizes pre-engineered modular construction consisting of inter lockable panels to form a complete, weather tight building shell. As well as delivering extremely low energy bills, Vitruvian has calculated that if its process was used for all building replacement and construction in America between now and the year 2030, its environmental impact would be the equivalent of removing more than 80 million cars from the road. en gizmag.com http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-1738 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-1738 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:55:23 -0500 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-1369 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-1369 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:28:06 -0500 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-1096 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-1096 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:58:18 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-985 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-985 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:33:17 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-982 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-982 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:00:58 -0600 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-967 http://www.gizmag.com/vitruvian-green-cost-effective-building-system/10992/#comment-967 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:22:26 -0600