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

[Stuart Fix]

Hi Rob,

Agreed, R-2000 produces really good buildings, but PH produces even better
buildings. They're similar standards really, R-2000 junkies chant 1.5ACH
and PH junkies chant 0.6ACH, which one is right?

R-2000 pretty much is building code in Ontario & BC these days. The
decision for market leaders is where to go from there? You might think
that's far enough. Many people would disagree.

My comments about vacuum-filling refer mostly to the USA, where PH has
really taken off in the past 5 years, and R-2000 never got much traction
there.

Cheers,

Stuart Fix, P.Eng., LEED® AP
PHI Certified Passive House Designer
MASc. Building Science
Mechanical Engineer
ReNü Building Science Inc.

#206, 506B St. Albert Trail | St. Albert, Alberta | T8N 5Z1 | C.
780.554.8192 | sfix at renubuildings.com


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

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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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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