[Greenbuilding] Roof! Roof! (was re: windows - flush vs recessed)

[RT]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:28:31 -0500, Stuart Fix <sfix at renubuildings.com>  
wrote:

> Yep, there is a lot of dogma in the PH world, and it's up to the more
> technically capable PH consultants to wade through it and
> reconstruct/translate proper location specific best practices.


> At the end of the day though, I'd prefer a legion of PH Zombies chanting
[PH dogma <snipped>
> over a legion of uneducated, uninspired,
> and generally useless race-to-the-bottom building designers/trades. I
> think that PH has filled a vacuum for a large group of designers/builders
> in North America who were wanting to build REALLY good buildings but
> didn't know how.


Ahhhhm sorry, but I'm having a great deal of difficulty swallowing the  
above.

I think that the tools that Canada's R-2000 program developed ~ 30 years  
ago
provided  designers and builders with sufficient means and knowledge to  
build REALLY good buildings and did it without the dogma.

If one viewed the R-2000 performance standard as one views the Building  
Codes (ie a minimum rather than a target to aspire towards) then the  
principles & techniques are just as valid in 2012 as they were in 1981.


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