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AND INDEPENDENCE
R. Daniel Davies A more holistic/diagnostic approach is needed, monitoring a range of parameters over the lifetime of the system. Remote sensing/monitoring and data logging would reduce the need for frequent and costly site visits. The challenge with this approach is how to
achieve continuity of data and records when responsibility for management will probably pass through a number of hands . Possibly one way to achieve this continuity would be for the building owners to require such a level of service from their contractors as part of the drive for sustainable buildings.
Buro Happold’s new energy -use benchmark has sparked a debate about whether a building that uses more energy can be more effi cient
Tim Jones This proposition comes across like an 80s ‘greed is good’ philosophy – eventually leading to US CEOs demonstrating their fi nancial muscle with how grossly ineffi cient the HVAC systems are. My view is contrary to this: companies which have great wealth should show leadership and inspire good design. Buro Happold appears to believe that the amount of carbon loading a company may impose on the ecosystem should be linked to its share price. Strange concept.
Phil Dodd Excuse my ignorance, but what’s the point? Is this being done so that huge corporations that have massive air -conditioned offi ces and consume vast amounts of energy can say: ‘Oh we are green really, because the kg of CO2 we produce, divided by the $ per head we generate, is much smaller than other commercial buildings.’ How does this work for a museum that generates very little revenue, but adds a huge amount of cultural value? This has a long way to go before it becomes accepted outside of Buro Happold.
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John Taylor I’m completely amazed by this article (
ow.ly/rNof1). Surely the suggestion is that it is OK for me to use twice as much energy as somebody in the next building because I earn twice as much money, even though we still each only need to heat and cool the same amount of space.
Dan Widdon The principle of conserving energy is based on the resource constraints inherent within the fossil- and nuclear -fuel - dominated energy systems we’re all familiar with. Buro Happold’s ‘it’s OK to use more if we deliver proportionately more economic gain’ model completely ignores the environmental impacts of resource depletion and skews the energy effi ciency debate in favour of corporations that don’t know their employees’ names.
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