They had an “Experimental” division at North Ryde in the old days, the housing monographs they published are pure gold, if you can get hold of them they are precious.
Thankyou for explaining about he QLD house. The underneath of my home is a big open space about 6 meters from the ground making the house freezing in winter as well as spring & autumn in spite of sunshine outside. My sister told me I should cut own the surrounding shade trees but I wanted them to shade the house in the summer & I always thought the cold came from underneath.
If you’re still at your house... There are a lot of variables, having a crawl space isn’t going to make it that much colder, if at all. Just needs insulated, and the wind shouldn’t be howling through it. Evergreens on the shady side (the north, in the northern hemisphere) keep wind off the house and help a bit, dense hedges are best. Evergreens blocking eastern and southern sun are a no-no unless you’re in a place where the heat of summer is more uncomfortable than the cold of winter (like southern India maybe). Why eastern? Because you want the morning sun because house get cold overnight.
Someone Googled me his 'Trompe' lecture on compressed air energy. This guy has brilliant lectures, that should be adopted by planners the world over. But energy companies and corporates wouldn't make enough/any money, so suppress these age old ideas.
These findings represent a new understanding of the roles of the olfactory bulb, implicating it in the control of reproduction and social behavior in rodents. While not really applicable to humans, making sense of the Bruce effect is important in comprehending social behavior that, without knowledge of evolutionary theory, seems otherwise inexplicable.
Emerson White Pentony v. Conrad et al., NJ Super. Ct. (1994). The plaintiffs sought an injunction preventing their downstairs neighbors from smoking between 4:00 P.M. and 9:00 A.M. (when the Pentonys would be home from work) in their apartment because the secondhand smoke *seeped* throughout the Pentonys' apartment. Snow v. Gilbert, Middlesex City. (MA) Superior Ct., Docket No. MICV94-07373 (1994). A woman suffering from multiple chemical sensitivity, pulmonary fibrosis and CREST, a form of scleroderma, won a temporary injunction against her landlord to prevent him from renting the units below hers to smokers, at least until she succeeded in finding another apartment elsewhere. The landlord was found to have violated an earlier agreement not to rent the units to smokers. The smoke emanating from the units rented to smokers consequently *seeped* into the plaintiff's apartment, causing a severe reaction. In re U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Kirk and Guilford Management Corp. and Park Towers Apartments, HUD Case No. 05-97-0010-8,504 Case No. 05-97-11-0005-370 (1998). Two complaints were filed in September 1996 by Nancy V. Kirk under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 against Guilford Management Corp. and Park Tower Apartments. Ms. Kirk claimed that she had a respiratory condition that was aggravated by exposure to her neighbors' secondhand tobacco smoke, which *seeped* into her apartment at Park Tower You can read several more cases of cigarette smoke seeping into their neighbors apartment here. > www.tcsg. org/sfelp/apt_condofact. htm
The LostBoys Cigaret smoke will negatively affect those nearby in an open field. A small fraction of it seeping through can impact neighbors. Do you think that rats living in a pipe only get a small fraction of the air blown through in their direction? It's more like living in a bank of cages than living in a tube, and rats reproduce just fine in those conditions. If you look at how our ancestors lived, they would pack dozens of people into a small space. Highrises give us mroe space and more air, so hormone concentrations aren't as high. An unventilated building is unlivable long before the human hormones in the air become a problem.
Emerson White I was simply addressing the part about you saying high rise ventilation systems work flawlessly, which in fact they don't and thus I gave you several smoke related examples to prove that. It seems as if opinions are being manifested into facts now. It's a huge problem when people start voicing their opinions as facts when they know little to nothing about the actual topic at hand. According to the speaker in the video, scientist have conducted experiments showing that hormones from other rats negatively impact the reproduction cycle of rats *in certain environments*. So your opinions contradict facts. That's a problem. Have a wonderful day.
His opinion on super insulation starting around the 30:00 min mark is really misinformed. Part of the purpose of air tightness is to measure and control air exchange. Numerous air exchanges per hour occur in air tight houses. I've never heard of modern leaky Scandinavian home construction. How do you repeatedly create the 'right' amount of leakiness by not fastening anything down? This is Russian Roulette in a cold climate like Scandinavia. You'd probably be fine in Australia, though. Also, a depressurized house with a dirt floor is a fantastic way to encourage radon to enter your house. Again, modern building science puts piping under the floor slab, and up through the roof to encourage radon to avoid passing into the house.
