Interesting Article on Buildings

[MountainDon]

The is oriented towards commercial buildings, but still interesting.

http://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-005-a-bridge-too-far

You have to download a PDF.

It begins thusly...

"For a bunch of supposedly clever folks we sure do dumb things. One of the big ideas of the past couple of decades or so is to keep the heat out during cooling and keep the heat in during heating. The better we are at this the less energy we need to use to condition the interior. Apparently this concept has not caught on. How else do we explain modern construction that uses steel, concrete, aluminum and glass the way we do? For those who somehow missed high school physics, steel, concrete, aluminum and glass are all thermally conductive materials. Except for concrete, we make frying pans out of all of them."

[n74tg]

I am amazed at how much resistance there is to many of the ideas published at Building Science.com.