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Excerpts from the ensuing discussion in The Tyee’s comment section:many thanksposted by “SharingIsGood” on March 28, 2011Kudos to John Robinson and his colleagues for takingthe initiative.Thank you UBC for letting these people show us howto live and build.Many warm thanks to Katie Hyslop and the Tyee forbringing this informative article forward.Building Greenposted by “Talon” on March 28, 2011Thank you very much for this information about UBCand its Green Building initiative. It is good newswhen so little news is good. Stories like this needmuch wider dispersion so that it is seen on all the media,not just the most progressive like The Tyee. Tellyour friends about it and write to UBC and say thankyou for being a friend of the planet. Many thanks toMs. Hyslop and The Tyee.What disappoints me about high-profile projects likethis - particularly ones conducted by universities - isthe missed opportunities. They have at their disposalan almost limitless pool of fervent young minds justover-flowing with new ideas that they could workwith. But instead they build another fancy concreteand glass block.Why? Probably because it conforms to the buildingcode requirements?stevesatow: mostly woodposted by “KHyslop” on March 28, 2011stevesatow, the building is actually made mostly ofwood. Professor Robinson didn’t have a percentagevalue on how much of the building was wood, so Iunfortunately can’t give you specifics on that. But it ismore wood than concrete.A Wolf in Sheep’s clothing?posted by “stevesatow” on March 28, 2011Ms. Hyslop says it herself, ‘Don’t expect to see housingprojects based on the CIRS model anytime, soon,however.’Why?Firstly; this project is ‘estimated’ to be 15% moreexpensive that conventional construction - a majorbarrier to the mainstream uptake of sustainable buildingpractices.Secondly, this appears at first glance to be a conventionalbuilding (vast amounts of concrete, steeland glass - all with massive embodied energy andresources - overlaid with some complex and/or expensivetechnology in the form of ground-source heatrecovery, massive PV arrays and recaptured heat fromneighbouring buildings (amongst other things).72
CASE STUDY #7: Austria PassivHausgreenfromthegroundupAustria PassivHausLost Lake, WhistlerPhoto by Justin LangilleCompleted: 2010Use: Day Lodge, café, meeting spaceDistinction: Heats For Under a Dollar a DayBuilt to house Austria’s Olympic Committee delegation and national broadcaster during the 2010 winter games,then gifted to the citizens of Whistler, the 2,700-square-foot ‘PassivHaus’ boasts super-thick insulation and detailin the building design (especially thermal ‘breaks’ between exterior cladding and interior spaces) that reduceits energy needs by 90 per cent from those of a traditionally-built home—beating even LEED platinum homestandards by 50%. According to its new owner, the Resort Municipality of Whistler, heating the Austria PassivHausfor all of last year cost about $280.73
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