Paper No: 218 Totnes Eco House: interaction between design and in-situ monitoring

2008-10-24
by esba
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Paper No: 218 Totnes Eco House: interaction between design and in-situ monitoring
Written by esba

This paper explores the decisions made during the design and construction of an award-winning Low Carbon House, and how these relate to ongoing in-situ monitoring of this home. Analysis of the design process uses the IDEF-0 modelling method, with the objective of investigating the factors that influence design decisions. The building is currently intensively monitored for thermal and moisture aspects. The house studied has been designed by the client/occupant. Important aspects considered within the design process were embodied energy and heating energy demands, which led to the use of local timber, straw bale, loose sheep’s wool, lime renders and clay paints for the walls

Authors:

  1. Carfrae, Jim
  2. Goodhew, Steve

Link: https://www.academia.edu/4829232/Paper_No_218_Totnes_Eco_House_interaction_between_design_and_in_situ_monitoring

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The European Straw Building Association is an independent European association, devoid of any profit making motive. The object of the Association is to promote and develop the use of straw, as a sustainable way of building in all the senses of the term “sustainable”: renewable, ecological, healthy, energy and climate efficient, social and economic.
The Association is a federation composed of organisations and people particularly concerned with the use of straw in buildings.

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