[Greenbuilding] size of award winning houses

[Alan Abrams]

well here is a difficult to digest bulletin from a colleague who is
tracking the work sessions devoted to producing the 2015 IECC:

"The early progress on residential energy code proposals is anything but
swift… BUT energy efficiency measures are not being weakened, and rollbacks
are generally being disapproved… "

Stasis *is* rolling back, imo...

Alan Abrams*
**certified professional building designer, AIBD
certified passive house consultant, PHIUS*
*certified passive house builder, PHIUS**
*Abrams Design Build LLC
*sustainable design for intentional living*
6411 Orchard Avenue Suite 102
Takoma Park, MD 20912
office  301-270-NET- ZERO (301-270-6380)
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alan at abramsdesignbuild.com
www.abramsdesignbuild.com


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:16 PM, RT <archilogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> === * ===
> Rob Tom                                 AOD257
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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