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First Aired - 11/10/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis addresses Henry Gifford (of Gifford Fuel Savings INC) and his claim that the US Green Building Council's system of rating how "green" a building is (the LEED system) is a scam, and does not actually translate into positive effects for the environment. To discuss this assertion LEED AP and architect Ryan Enschede calls in, who ultimately reminds us that what is important is constant innovation, no matter what system is used to measure progress. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a NYC culinary mainstay for over 55 years.
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BDH vs. USGBC (5:50)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Henry Gifford, USGBC, United States Green Building Council, LEED rating system, green building, Gifford Fuel Saving Inc., class action suit alleging fraud and racketeering,I'm No Statistician... (19:14)
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Henry Gifford, Roberta's pizza, vox populi, Sandra Lackovic, Ryan Enschede, LEED AP, discontents with the USGBC, Gifford Interview, the LEED system, LEED buildings claim to save 25% to 30% on energy use, CBECS data, skewed results, mean versus median in data analysis, U.S. Green Building Council, study excluded data from high energy buildings, The New York Times, is the LEED system a scam?, architectural rating systems, comparing new buildings to old, LEED certification may be rescinded, compel the council to release data, some municipalities require LEED certification, performance tracking for buildings, real-time energy control, photo-censors, Lutron Radio Powr Savr, operating energy used, sustainability, use less energy,The Squirrely World Of Green Building (18:11)
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the monopolistic hegemony, Architects, architects have really dropped the ball on energy, California's case-study houses, gigantic west-facing walls of glass, insulation installation, identify your air infiltration barrier, Ryan puts Curtis on the spot, the lawsuit averse environment of the 1970s, The American Institute of Architects, encouraged architects to not take responsibility, architects must take responsibility for everything, the USGBC won't release their data, Cascadia's Living Building Challenge, Omega Institute Sustainable Living Center, Skip Backus, LEED certification, a credential like any other, display an understanding of the LEED rating system, LEED rating has become wrongly synonymous with Green Building, merit badges and club membership, Passivhaus Training, Wolfgang Feist, Passivhaus Building Standards,A Highly Efficient Building Envelope (11:09)
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The interest explosion in energy conservation after the oil crisis of the 60s and 70, Passivhaus, Passive House, Wolfgang Feist, The Super Insulated House, volatile organic compounds, as a house becomes more air-tight it becomes more energy efficient, proper ventilation, sustainability shelved in the 80s, The Rocky Mountain Institute, a highly efficient building envelope, the money-efficiency curve, the break in the graph, overcoming the heating system, relying on electricity to move air, natural convective currents, worried about when the grid goes down, everything counts,A Few Choice Words For The USGBC (7:30)
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Matt Arnold, a few choice words for the USGBC, people make bad decisions based on fraudulent statistics, a point-system is for children, sustainable cannot include subsidies, the USGBC is tax-dollar funded, join the class-action suit, LEED system does more damage than good to the sustainability movement, there's no argument against releasing data, RYANENSCHEDE.com, stairwaytoarchitecture.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/12/2012 04:30PM
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This week's episode of Burning Down the House is a response to last week's interview with Elizabeth Heider of the U.S. Green Building Council. On this episode, Curtis B. Wayne discusses the dichotomy between faith and science in the field of architecture- specifically green building. Curtis highlights the empirical nature of the LEED system, and how it has made energy efficiency quantifiable. Also, Curtis discusses three different architectect types- the academic, the practitioner, and the technician- and how a syncretic worldview of the built environment could improve civilization. Curtis also explores the idea of embodied energy, and how it could affect the future of architecture and conservation. This episode has been sponsored by White Oak Pastures.
"I disagree with categorization that being 'green' is as being religious because being religious involves issues of faith, which cannot be based on science, but rather are based on belief."
"Most of the materials that go into the waste stream that say they are recyclable are not [recycled]."
-- Curtis B. Wayne on Burning Down the House
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Embodied Energy of Building Materials (19:19)
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Elizabeth Heider, USGBC, green building, syncretism, modern physics, Duo Dickinson, sustainable architecture, Scientology, religion, LEED, greenwashing, Tom Sawyer, embodied energy, carbon dioxide, ASHRAE, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, energy, form, the green movement, Theodore Roosevelt, national parks, conservation, global warming, greenhouse gas, solar heat, GHGs, climate change, faith vs. science, solar flares, Congress, energy efficiency, fossil fuels, oil, petroleum,The Waste Stream (24:39)
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academic, technician, practitioner, Robert Moses, urban slum, intervention, BMW Guggenheim Lab, classicists, Vignola, the environment, Buckminster Fuller, Sears, off the grid, architecture degree, recycling, waste stream, Nalgene, Vik Muniz, reused, Plato, Christopher Hitchens, ego, art, productivity, daylight, vegetation, aesthetics, DOE-2,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/13/2011 04:30PM
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Let there be light! This week on Burning Down the House, Curtis sheds some light on light - and its use as it relates to architecture, design and sustainability. Tune in to learn about the origins of artificial light, where technology has taken it, and how we could stand to learn how to survive without it. Find out how natural daylight can be utilized at home or in the work place and how you can help lessen your carbon footprint. This episode was sponsored by 360 Cookware. For more information on their vapor technology visit 360Cookware.com
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Burning Down the House Introduction: Let There be Light (8:05)
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Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne, 360 Cookware, vapor technology, Heritage Radio Network, lights, oil lamps, Thomas Edison did NOT invent the incandescent lamp, he bought out the patents, he pushed electric light, CFL, induction lighting,Induction Lamps (13:57)
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magnetism, induction lamps, strong magnetic force is applied to an evacuated chamber that has rare gas, re-purposing, Bryant Park, American Express Building, that building captures heat into a heat exchange that creates steam which provides heating in other places in the building, can be fed through an absorption chiller to create air conditioning in the summer, Radio City Music Hall, has had this technology since the 30's, sustainable intergration of technologies, 95% efficient lighting, spinning mills, using what nature gives you, foot candles,Utlizing Dayight & Recycling CFL's (15:33)
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turn off the lights when you aren't using them!, saving energy, we are becoming much more careful about integrating artificial illumination with daylight, Battery Park City, Green Guidelines, based on the US Green Building Council's LEED, paying more attention to natural daylight, compact fluorescent lights, European Union, banned the manufacturing of ordinary incandescent bulbs, heat lamps, Tekserve E-Waste events, mercury waste, burned out CFLs should go into recycling bins, sustainable design, illumination, optimizing the amount of daylight,Skylights & Daylight Sensor (18:23)
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colored glass, skylights, they tend to leak, constant bright light in factories, reflected back into the space, light tubes, the hotter the light source the higher its temperature the closer it will be to white!, cool blue florescent lamps were very hot, illumination temperatures, daylight sensors, occupancy sensors, used to be exotic,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
