Comments on: Setu Goes Solar with University of Florida Team http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/setu-goes-solar-with-university-of-florida-team/ Discover Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: San Diego Office Furniture http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/setu-goes-solar-with-university-of-florida-team/comment-page-1/#comment-613 San Diego Office Furniture Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:13:24 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/discover/?p=7043#comment-613 It appears from the layout of the house that it is designed with a very open interior to take advantage of natural ventilation. That's an old-fashioned substitute for air conditioning that more home builders in moderate climates could stand to imitate. We tend to keep our houses so closed up that they never get a good airing out any more. Sick building syndrome (SBS) has been recognized as a problem since at least the early 1980s, but the solution (a higher volume of air exchange) seems out of reach. That's because people are thinking in terms of bigger/better HVAC systems instead of ways to simply open up their buildings to the open air. Daisy McCarty http://www.sandiegocubicles.com/blog/ It appears from the layout of the house that it is designed with a very open interior to take advantage of natural ventilation. That’s an old-fashioned substitute for air conditioning that more home builders in moderate climates could stand to imitate. We tend to keep our houses so closed up that they never get a good airing out any more. Sick building syndrome (SBS) has been recognized as a problem since at least the early 1980s, but the solution (a higher volume of air exchange) seems out of reach. That’s because people are thinking in terms of bigger/better HVAC systems instead of ways to simply open up their buildings to the open air.

Daisy McCarty
http://www.sandiegocubicles.com/blog/

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