[Greenbuilding] energy efficient pop up house

[Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn]

Very cool.

Gennaro Brooks-Church
Director, Eco Brooklyn Inc.
Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
www.EcoBrooklyn.com
22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:04 PM, John Salmen <terrain at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Nice building. Looks nicely thought out. Most every building code has a 1/2
> hr minimum firewall requirement for interior finishes so it would likely
> have to have those facings. I think some European standards look at whole
> building performance in fires and its possible that eps might qualify as it
> doesn't do too badly in fires doesn't do too badly in fires (I can hear the
> gloves falling off).
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> Typically the smoke from burning wood components will kill you long before
> the foam ignites. Foam is 98% air but low mass so can produce less heat in
> a fire which is important. Lots of studies on it.
>
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>
> *From:* Greenbuilding [mailto:
> greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] *On Behalf Of *Sacie
> Lambertson
> *Sent:* March-24-14 2:09 PM
> *To:* Greenbuilding
> *Subject:* [Greenbuilding] energy efficient pop up house
>
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>
> Further to that note about the energy efficient pop up house, a friend who
> read the piece better than did I, pointed out:
>
> *There are some good ideas here, but at least one really bad one: the
> whole interior is foam plastic, not legal as an exposed finish because it
> burns like crazy and produces extremely toxic smoke (in spite of being
> pumped full of (probably) carcinogenic flame retardants.) Also, calling
> polystyrene recyclable is fudging at best.*
>
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>
> I expect Rob Tom would agree fully with an 'echhh' to boot.  The idea
> however, of easily putting together a house lego-like is most appealing.
> SIPs come close to this idea.  Sacie
>
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