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Hi Sara... et.al.<br>
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About indoor climate in earth plastered homes: Doc. Gernot Minke's
book about earthen building has various aspects of it. Great
reference book.<br>
About environmental impact:<br>
I suggest you find someone on your faculty (or on this list) with
access to one of the LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) databases which are
part of the computer tools for making LCA. They have values for most
materials, and I believe you'll find data for soil too.<br>
The hardship with such data is that it's all generic/general, for
instance wood data are based on data from extremely large modern
automatized mills in Finland, which has quite different impact data
than the old low-tech mills here in Czech Republic. (Same for OSB;
the data are the same wether they are made in Europe or Asia, with
or without PU etc? Unfortunately this is the kind of 'scientific'
research which is the foundation for modern legislation, funding
etc.).<br>
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The approach we used in our university project (comparing SB and
standard passive house building) was to pinpoint the building site
to one location (here), which made it easier to calculate embodied
energy due to processing, transport and disposal, in context of
local energy, production, distances and legislation data.<br>
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Hope that's of help to you?<br>
Best greetings to the new year, and for any Czechs among the list:
Here's a link to a TV documentary which will be aired at 17:30 today
of one of the newest SB houses in CZ; A very nice round one: <a
href="http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/program/chalupajehra/">
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/program/chalupajehra/</a>
<div>-There's 5 photos on the website for those of you without Cz
Tv, and i suspect you may be able to view it online soon.<br>
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Max Vittrup Jensen<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.jen-sen.cz">www.jen-sen.cz</a>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.permamax.blogspot.com">www.permamax.blogspot.com</a>
- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.permalot.org">www.permalot.org</a>
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