Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
An architect’s answer to “What would you design for your parents?”
by Christine Lolley
A sustainable home should first and foremost be built to last using high-quality materials. Its design must take into account site conditions and take advantage of passive solar design strategies.
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Tags: andrea hunniford, built to last, Christine Lolley, high quality materials, ICF, kharyn chay, low-angle winter sun, passive solar design, Richard Lay, site conditions, slab on-grade, solares design build, thermal mass, triple-glazing
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
for high performance buildings
The Earth Rangers Centre uses earth tubes and a double foundation wall. The energy recovery in winter and summer is sufficient to temper the air about 5º C on average and up to 10º C on cold days.
by Richard Lay
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It has become increasingly common to provide heat recovery on ventilation systems in buildings. In fact, it is difficult to achieve the minimum energy performance requirements for a LEED or other high performance building without it. (more…)
Tags: Aerofin, airstream resistance, BKM Reverse Flow, borehole thermal energy storage, cogeneration, combined heat and power, cross-flow plate, DesChamps, double foundation walls, Drake Landing Solar Community in Okotoks Alberta, Earth Rangers Centre, earth tubes, efficient houses, Enermodal Engineering Ltd, enthalpy recovery ventilators, ERV, Fantech, free heat, glycol runaround coils, Greenheck, healthy indoor air quality, heat pipes, heat recovery, heat transfer piping, Heatcraft, high performance buildings, HRV, LEED, Madok, minimum energy performance, plate heat exchangers, R2000, reversing flow HRV, Richard Lay, rotary wheel heat exchangers, RotorSource, runaround coils, Semco, Spinnaker, thermal storage cassettes, thermodynamics, total heat recovery efficiency, Trane, vanEE/CES, Venmar, ventilation tunnels, winter time humidification, sensible and enthalpy wheels
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