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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Nice building. Looks nicely thought out. Most every building code has a ½ 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). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Greenbuilding [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sacie Lambertson<br><b>Sent:</b> March-24-14 2:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> Greenbuilding<br><b>Subject:</b> [Greenbuilding] energy efficient pop up house<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Further to that note about the energy efficient pop up house, a friend who read the piece better than did I, pointed out:<br><br><i>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.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div id=":37v"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>