On Slowing Climate Change with Ecological, Thermo-Active Building Systems

Abstract

In the early days of energy conservation 1980s several countries took the need for energy efficiency seriously enough to sponsor some demonstration buildings For instance a US university design concept was built in Regina Canada in1978 The Saskatchewan Energy Conservation house 1s 4 demonstrated a new passive technology It had super-insulated and airtight walls large windows on the south facade evacuated solar pipes for domestic water heating and a heat recovery ventilator Despite of all the technology demonstrated there as Bomberg et al 2 explains the passive measures were not accepted in the Canadian marketplace because the builders modified the heating system and thereby changed the air flow pattern in the house