Survivability
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Defining Habitable Temperatures
If buildings lose power or heating fuel, how hot is too hot and how cold is too cold?
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Designing Houses and Communities To Be Smarter and More Resilient
Resilient design is about making smart choices, such as where we build and how we protect against damage from flooding
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Building Resilience for a ‘Close Encounter’ with Disaster
Can you make your life more resilient in case of disaster? Yes, and it may be greener, too.
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Green Building Priority #9 – Create Resilient Houses
Number 9 in my list of the top-10 green building priorities is to create resilient houses that will protect occupants in a changing climate or during extended power outages, loss of heating fuel, or water shortages.
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Making Houses Resilient to Power Outages
The ice storm a week-and-a-half ago illustrated, all too clearly, the vulnerability of our homes. Hundreds of thousands of homes in New England lost power in the storm, which deposited…
