[Greenbuilding] size of award winning houses

[RT]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:37:17 -0400, Sacie Lambertson  
<sacie.lambertson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seeing Alan's query about mass, reminded my of my disgust in reading  
> about the cost of one of the recipients of AIA's top ten green awards
> ...3800 sq ft and cost well over $1.5 million

I remember years ago (10 or so ?) when I subscribed to satellite TV and  
got the Murrican PBS channel from either Spokane or Seattle, there was a  
program called "Building Green" (or something to that effect) that when I  
caught a glimpse, was following the construction of a "Green" home in  
southern California.

Like Sacie is today with the Venice CA award winner, I was disgusted by  
the whole idea of what the program was promoting as being "Green" building.

It seemed as though they were just loading up the home with a $#!+-load of  
trendy items that were viewed as being Green  -- some strawbale walls  
here, some earthen plaster there, some salvaged material over there, a  
hydronic slab (acid-stained of course) there, a gazillion dollar  
mechanical system for good measure --blah,blah blah ...  oh, and a  
structural steel frame that would look perfectly at home holding up a four  
storey big box store.

IIRC, the house was for three people, something like 3000 (or 5000?)  
square feet of conditioned living space and multiple $million$ to build.

It made me want to puke (pardonnnez moi). But unfortunately for me, I have  
an iron gut that never does.

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Rob Tom					AOD257
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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