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R High quality building design provides a complete heating and cooling system anda high quality indoor environment, through proper passive solar gain, insulation,ventilation, and sizing.R The use of straw bale construction maximizes insulation while being a non -toxic,renewable, natural material.R High quality double or triple glazed windows provide passive solar gain whileminimizing heat loss.R A few operable windows are needed to provide summertime cooling throughcross breezes.R Integrate extensive shading structures into the window design, to minimize solargain in the summer, while optimized for solar gain in the winter.All heating, hot water and air conditioning requirements are being met with solarpower sources, good design, efficiency, ventilation, heat exchange, controlled airexchange, a wood stove, and insulation.R Lyle Jory installed the in -floor heating system.The system is composed of thetubing embedded in the concrete flooring throughout the house. The water heateris a Seisco Microtherm device. The large thermal mass of the floor with watertubing stores solar heat collected through the super efficient Inline Fibreglasswindows. Warm water may be re -circulated through the in-floor tubing to provideheating. Ambro concrete floors are used with plastic tubing.R A ventilating air scoop in the center of the house and thermal design eliminatesthe need for any mechanical air conditioning system.R Ventilation is through strategically placed operating windows. In floor vents fromthe basement into the open concept gro und floor provide cooling in the summer.The upward flow of air is encouraged by an operating window opening in the airscoop in the center of the house which has a single operating window highabove the second floor. Eventually ventilatio n can be enhanced by efficientelectric powered fans in the central air scoop and the vaulted ceiling in theliving room on the ground floor The green house also incorporates a natural airscoop with openings at the lowest level and up at the top of the second level.R Water flows are planned which should provide natural cooling in the summer anda natural humidifier in the winter.264