<div>well here is a difficult to digest bulletin from a colleague who is tracking the work sessions devoted to producing the 2015 IECC:<br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11.111111640930176px;line-height:15.555556297302246px;background-color:rgb(237,239,244)">"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… "</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Stasis *is* rolling back, imo...</div><br clear="all"><div><font><font><span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">Alan Abrams</span></font><b style="color:rgb(102,0,0)"><br></b><i><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">certified professional building designer, AIBD<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:16 PM, RT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:archilogic@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">archilogic@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:37:17 -0400, Sacie Lambertson <<a href="mailto:sacie.lambertson@gmail.com" target="_blank">sacie.lambertson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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<br>
...3800 sq ft and cost well over $1.5 million<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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IIRC, the house was for three people, something like 3000 (or 5000?) square feet of conditioned living space and multiple $million$ to build.<br>
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It made me want to puke (pardonnnez moi). But unfortunately for me, I have an iron gut that never does.<br>
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