Green Building Using Thin-Film Solar

by Justin on August 16, 2006

in Architecture, Renewable Power

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This is the new Ballard Library in Seattle. It’s a state-of-the-art green building which makes use of a sod roof, daylighting, and translucent thin-film solar collectors from Schott. It is listed in the American Institute of Architecture’s top ten green buildings.

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