Autonomous building
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An autonomous building is a building designed to be operated independently from infrastructural support services such as the electric power grid, gas grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, and in some cases, public roads.
Advocates of autonomous building describe advantages that include reduced environmental impacts, increased security, and lower costs of ownership. Some cited advantages satisfy tenets of green building, not independence per se (see below). Off-grid buildings often rely very little on civil services and are therefore safer and more comfortable during civil disaster or military attacks. For example, Off-grid buildings would not lose power or water if public supplies were compromised.
See also
- Arcology
- Appropriate technology
- Architectural engineering
- Biosphere
- Biosphere 2
- BIOS-3
- Brenda and Robert Vale
- Detention basin
- Earthship
- Ecovillage
- Environmental engineering
- Hydrogen station
- In-situ resource utilization
- Microgeneration
- Passive house
- Quadruple glazing
- Renewable heat
- Street Farm
- Solar combisystem
- Vertical farming
- Zero-energy building
