{"id":2209,"date":"2015-08-03T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T08:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2016-05-21T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:48:08","slug":"insulation-glass-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2015\/08\/insulation-glass-buildings.html","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Back on Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/glass-buildings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2210 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/glass-buildings.jpg\" alt=\"glass buildings\" width=\"668\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/glass-buildings.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/glass-buildings-500x332.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do we go about designing buildings today for tomorrow\u2019s weather? As the world warms and extreme weather becomes more common, sustainable architecture is likely to mean one major casualty: glass. For decades glass has been everywhere, even in so-called \u201cmodern\u201d or \u201csustainable\u201d architecture such as London\u2019s Gherkin. However in energy terms glass is extremely inefficient \u2013 it does little but leak heat on cold winter nights and turn buildings into greenhouses on summer days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, the U-value (a measure of how much heat is lost through a given thickness) of triple glazing is around 1.0. However a simple cavity brick wall with a little bit of insulation in it is 0.35 \u2013 that is, three times lower \u2013 whereas well-insulated wall will have a U-value of just 0.1. So each metre square of glass, even if it is triple glazed, loses ten times as much heat as a wall. Cutting back on glass would be an easy win. Windows need to be sized, not glorified, and sized for a purpose: the view, or to provide natural light or air. Windows also need to be shaded. Many would argue that we need to re-invent the window, or the building. We need to build buildings <em>with<\/em> windows, rather than buildings that are one big window.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/climate-change-means-we-cant-keep-living-and-working-in-glass-houses-45006\" target=\"_blank\">Climate change means we can&#8217;t keep living (and working) in glass houses<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/green-architecture\/we-cant-keep-living-and-working-glass-houses.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lloyd Alter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How do we go about designing buildings today for tomorrow\u2019s weather? As the world warms and extreme weather becomes more common, sustainable architecture is likely to mean one major casualty: glass. For decades glass has been everywhere, even in so-called \u201cmodern\u201d or \u201csustainable\u201d architecture such as London\u2019s Gherkin. However in energy terms glass is extremely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,131,117,315,118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}