Energy efficiency is a very high profile in these days, such as sustainability and environmentally friendly and responsible. These are all great - but at what cost to our health?
I recently saw a popular home show history on a modular home, which build prefabricated and then assembled together on site. The house was built of something like a sandwich-style material - polystyrene placed between leaf color bond steel or aluminum. This is ideal for an esky. Would you live in an esky?
The main thing about all of this energy that heat to wherever you want it sealed - in or out, depending on your climate. To do this, you must avoid all sources of heat exchange. This means sealing drafts. Another way of saying "sealing drafts" will "stop air flow."
What happens to the residents of a house, when the air flow stopped?(Can and let's face it, air is humid, it must be for our health) Another thing you will note about eskys is that if moisture gets in, it stays in. So if you let moist air and the temperature decreases, the moisture condensed in the air. On the beautiful insulated walls and floor and ceiling. What happens when moisture forms and stays on a surface? That's right - mold.
One could of course remove most of the moisture and thus prevent moisture, and improve your flow through mechanical means - installation of air conditioning. Now you are in a temperature regulated esky live. And your energy efficiency has just gone triple-glazed windows.
The alternative (and preferred by biologists) is that you go the house to the air in. This is about knowing the climate and seasons of the place, even if the breeze from the temperature, rain, etc are located his suit to design and build a home to suit these aspects, as well as the requirements of the occupants. So if you (for example, Ipswich, has this subtropical climate with some aspects of) live in a warm temperate area, would you design for hot humid summer, with late afternoon storms with lots of rain in a short period of time. Would you design for sharp, cold, mostly dry winters, but not for heavy frost. They would also social aspects of sustainability, such as easy access throughout the home for aging inmates, as well as areas for younger residents to play and run. Landscaping should incorporate security as well as beauty and functionality - Safety, inside and outside, as well as the security could also be in the house and garden (not just putting bars on the windows are designed.
Be to consider all aspects of the occupants lifestyle, now and in the future, and the house should be designed to meet these requirements, not just "it looks very nice and the neighbors will envy us" and then "tacked" Sustainability the design.
Natural materials are preferred - mainly natural materials from the region. This is not only to minimize transportation costs and transport contain energy in the building, this is because the products have developed in the area to suit the environment - forests are grown locally to be adjusted, the climate of the region, and minimize the bad effects of climate and maximize the good. A building biologist with Home Design support for a healthy life, factoring these aspects in. A good architect or builder will also be aware of these factors.
Insulation and energy efficiency is good, and should be a part of your home design, but not at the expense of your health.
It may be that you can think of too expensive a home designed by an architect or custom-built to your specifications. However, I really urge you to look at the costs, not just short-term planning and construction costs, but also the long-term costs of living in this house, as well as the health of the residents - your family - and work out what is really important.
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