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gardenlen wrote: first up we as a society need to get a grasp that the homes we live in are not suited to our climate, they ahve no endearing features that make them work for us free of charge once built. Hi Len, passive solar design can go a long way towards alleviating the problem, if you have the right climate. For instance in the sw of WA where my father lives, summer days are stinking hot (over 40deg) but nights are cool right through summer. A really good passive design would incorporate thermal mass to smooth the temperature variations, but even a tin shed will be comfortable at night in the summer because it cools off quickly. Here in Perth a good passive design will work for most of the year. No design is going to be effective during a heatwave though - if the overnight temperature is 30deg then no design is going to get the temperature below 30deg. Depending on how you use the building you might decide to just suffer through the 4 or 5 weeks of sleepless nights. If I had to work from home though, that would mean 4 or 5 weeks of no income, since I can't work if it is hot. Maybe I should just plan my vacation for this period and go somewhere cool :-) Of course, it is no good talking about how good our houses would be if they were completely different, we have to live with the houses we have. Even if every builder were to start building fabulously designed passive solar houses today that would have no effect on the vast majority of us who don't get to live in new houses. |
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wrote in message ups.com... Of course, it is no good talking about how good our houses would be if they were completely different, we have to live with the houses we have. Even if every builder were to start building fabulously designed passive solar houses today that would have no effect on the vast majority of us who don't get to live in new houses. And now a higher proportion of new homes are built at medium or high densities where the scope for incorporating passive design, while definitely possible, is more limited than it is with detached housing. Back in 2000 something like almost half of all new housing construction in Melbourne was medium density or higher. |
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Claude wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... Of course, it is no good talking about how good our houses would be if they were completely different, we have to live with the houses we have. Even if every builder were to start building fabulously designed passive solar houses today that would have no effect on the vast majority of us who don't get to live in new houses. And now a higher proportion of new homes are built at medium or high densities where the scope for incorporating passive design, while definitely possible, is more limited than it is with detached housing. Back in 2000 something like almost half of all new housing construction in Melbourne was medium density or higher. YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY CELL BLOCKS ARE SO POPULAR (Grin!) High density people for high density housing. |
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