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Green Building Bible, Fourth Edition
Green Building Bible, fourth edition (both books)
These two books are the perfect starting place to help you get to grips with one of the most vitally important aspects of our society - our homes and living environment.

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    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2011
     
    What is the point of draught strips when the doors are left open?

    I visited a large secondary school today and was horrified by the numbers of doors left open to heated areas

    The doors were nice commercial quality aluminium ones with two rows of brush draught strips unfortunately the doors had hold open as well as self closers but were held open all the time.

    1500 people looking at doors left open but no one seeing this as a problem -- what hope is there for Eco Schools?
    • CommentAuthorowlman
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2011
     
    Idle human nature tony, along with apathy and ignorance it goes right to the root of ALL attempts at energy saving. Double the price of energy and watch that concentrate the mind better.
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2011
     
    Tony
    Behavioural change is the hard part of energy saving (and could probably account for between 30 and 50% of what we use).
    While people are waiting for technical fixes they will ignore the obvious.
    If the price of energy was so expensive that for every door left open it meant that one child totally failed and the school dropped down the league tables, then the head would have an incentive. At the moment we are still taking up slack in the system, we need to force this slack out and then we can relate one system to another better.
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      CommentAuthorDamonHD
    • CommentTimeFeb 18th 2011
     
    Behavioural change probably *did* do most of the work of reducing our effective heat demand at home by 50%, though having the tech to support it such as drylining and TRVs made it all much easier.

    Rgds

    Damon
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