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dology used. In the introduction eco friendly houses are defined including the picture of how eco friendly house looks like. In aims and objective, purpose of the study is enumerated to be able to tell the importance of the dissertation. It is mentioned that the study aims to investigate the effects of housing upon the environment and the factors that need to be implemented to make the construction ECO friendly within the UK. Also the Life cycle costing will be presented to find the cost difference between general construction and ECO friendly development. The objective of the study is to enumerate the usefulness of having an eco friendly house. The principle that lies into it will be also one of the objectives. In the research and methodology the qualitative method is used to analyze the review of policies regarding the eco friendly houses. The cases wherein the building of eco friendly houses applies will also helped to show the importance of it. At the end of chapter 1 the analysis of what we have started from the introduction up to the research and methodology will be discussed.

Chapter 2 is the literature review; it includes studies and articles about the eco friendly houses. It also has the introduction, the main content and the summary of the chapter. The main content includes the Article by Joseph Rowentee Foundation,

(1997) about the impact of housing in the environment. It also presents ways on what to do to limit the effect of environment. The location and characteristics of these houses will have a major impact on Britain's progress to achieving a more sustainable environment. Also in the literature review is the eco building principles established by the Building Biology and Ecology Institute of New Zealand (BBE).(Waitakere City Council, 2007). The budget and comparison of the cost on the traditional housing and the eco friendly housing will be shown on the later part of the paper.

Other articles and researches will be included in the literature review to further support our aims and objectives. The importance of the study will be carefully analyzed using the studies done and researches on the subject. The disadvantages of the eco friendly housing will be also discussed to balance the idea about the subject.

Chapter 3 is the part wherein the research and methodology used in the study was applied. As mentioned above we will be using qualitative method in presenting our data about the subject. This will be done thru the presentation of case study and researches done. The case study and researches will support our claims. This part also includes introduction, methodology, the data collected, the analysis and the summary of the chapter.

Chapter 4 includes the conclusion and recommendations. As the summary of our dissertation we will be able to conclude the importance of the study, its effects in

the environment and the factors involve as well as the principles.

Chapter 2 Literature Review

2.1 Introduction

The literature review includes study done by Joseph Rowentree Foundation (1997), the Philosophy in eco friendly housing as shown in the article of Waitakere Properties Limited of Waitakere City Council (2007). It also include the article written by Margo prior (2005) about “Homes that are good for the environment and your pocketbook”. The process of building the ho