Divided by an Ocean
我会留下这一离别的想法，因为我的一周慢慢消失了。周一回到当天的工作 - 但它在绿色建筑顾问的人们中间一直很有趣。
There are a couple of laws which pertain to the growth of networks. One of them, Metcalfe’s Law speaks about a power of ‘2’ increase in value of networks, once they are joined together. Another Law, Reed’s law goes a bit further and talks about a cubed increase in the value of networks as they are joined together. See wikipedia or such for a more extensive explanation. My thesis is very simple – what we witness today in the field of eco-building and eco-architecture, is a divided community. A question that has puzzled me for a year since I first discovered Green Building Advisor – is how can communities connect? How does a European, involved in green architecture even hold a conversation with someone from across the pond? Would it result in an increase in value of either ‘network’ if such a conversations took place? You will find a number of contributions by myself on GBA. Was it worth the effort? Should the communities of green builders on either side of the ocean stay separate? Is that the best way to proceed? Does the effort required to surmount the different cultures, mathematical formulae and conventions outweight the benefit gained? For the integration to succeed, there should be more to it than Europeans selling a few extra copies of PHPP into north America. That seems like a lost opportunity. Personally, I have a real appetite to consume much more north American knowledge and techniques in relation to green buildings. Only, we are non-consumers here in Europe at present. I would be very happy to hear from people, who have gone the opposite direction to myself – that is, from the north American green building environment, to the European.
一切顺利，Brian O'Hanlon
GBA Detail Library
由气候和房屋部件组织的一千个建筑细节的集合
答复
Brian
我之前没有见过你的名字，但随后我比较又一次，不要读过GBA。您是建筑师或承包商还是参与住宅建筑？您是否碰巧有一个网站，显示您对绿色建筑的任何工作或兴趣？
Brian,
我找到了所有的评论，问题和链接，以非常有趣。
我很高兴你花了时间分享并希望你将来继续。
JB
Brian,
I have been extra busy at my "day job" lately and have not had time to look thru all of the great links that you posted.
I have bookmarked them and will continue to explore them.
再次感谢。
Brian
我很欣赏你的贡献，并同意我们通过更好地联系池塘和全球来获得很多东西。我得到了一些很好的见解http://www.greeniters.com.in Japan esp on the battery technology and high tech innovations coming out of Asia these days.
最后，我们确实需要花时间在彼此的彼此上方形成这些连接。这可能意味着燃烧喷射燃料互相访问，并吸收思想和新的观点。也许我会很快地向爱尔兰跋涉，或者你可以在美国来这里访问，我可以想到很多人都喜欢向你展示和分享想法，我自己包括在内。
我们最近有一个物业崩溃在爱尔兰 - 我忙着学习财务管理的基础知识，希望我能够进入该角色。但它意味着，在未来几年内回到学校回到夜间课程。除此之外，我不能想到在爱尔兰的绿岛上的民间出去。我们享受了一个持续15年的派对，现在我们必须面临后果。所有最好的，B。
艾伦，我是新建筑现场的新建筑 - 我曾经在住宅建筑的高批量结束中运作 - 思考多达十个故事等。我们在爱尔兰的负面股票和管理公司有严重的问题。。简单地说，数字不再铅笔 - 即使是现有的已完成项目。搜索“在香烟盒后面开发”和我的名字，您将在去年发布的一篇文章。一切顺利。
谢谢布莱恩。是的，建设者，开发商和消费者的融资仍然紧张。
艾伦，
如果您愿意，请查看我的博客“DesignComment”。大部分主题被经济和金融博览会主导 - 但也有一些条目，我已经进入了绿色，可再生期货问题。在欧洲以西，这是一个在这里的一个政治热门话题。我前几天写了一些关于博客的“划分的社区” - 参与全球变暖预防的科学家以及参与节能的科学家 - 如何使两个工作都在经济上是一个挑战。我有时想知道两个挑战之间存在太多的混乱。目前在爱尔兰有辩论，关于我们有许多涉及可再生风能产生的国家机构。泥炭切割半态，气体半态和电力供应网络半态。2009年，我手上有时间，我使我的企业与这个小岛上的绿色能量运动的许多分支交谈。我发现了很多活动，但各组之间的协调和沟通很少。这就是我在我最近的博客条目，划分的社区中触摸的主题。
最后一点我想带来忍受 - 是北美一直有一个非常大，自由，国内市场的好处。这是开始关闭的美妙事物 - 特别是在技术中。如果您的概念和商业计划足够好，因此由于您的国内市场的规模，它取得了真正的机会。我们经常拥有北美公司来到爱尔兰，其中许多人开始非常小，很快地增长。我在2001 - 02年度为戴尔电脑工作了一年。有一个多亿万富翁的企业，现实在某人的宿舍里。
The other side of the coin to be aware of, is with such a huge domestic economy to sell your wares and services into, it is possible to become complacent. We all have heard the story of the Japanese and many Asian countries who were constrained by very small domestic markets, and were forced to build automobiles for export and greater efficiency. The same applies in the retrofit industry. I would like to see more emphasis in the United States on schemes where the home occupier only installs a couple of thermostats, and receives the benefit in a higher energy rating or such. The idea of the 'deep retrofit' is great, but is it like the large engine cadillac version for the buoyant domestic market? One thing I notice, is many of the Irish wind renewable companies have broken into the north American market lately. One of the reasons for that, is the Irish renewable energy generation companies got such a difficult time dealing with state bureaucracy here in Ireland - they became really efficient at dealing with problems, and solving them.
我在这里读了像构造爱尔兰等杂志，有一些很好的想法。但我很乐意看到更大的信息流。我很想有一天开辟“建造爱尔兰”杂志，并在伊利诺伊州厄巴纳的Chris Briley或Ty Newell's Equinox项目中查看缅因州的改造项目。Visa Versa，我期待着Bill Quigley的果实太阳能家居的一天，以“精美的HomeBuilder”提供。少数几个用于在我看来延伸分裂的少数张出版物之一，它已经设定了一个非常高的基准，是整个地球目录。我从整个人那里与民间说过，谁记得他们年轻时的杂志。有趣的事情。再次感谢，祝福。
大脑
I really don't think this country will get serious about energy efficiency until the cost of energy doubles or triples over today's costs. Whether that increase comes about from added taxes or scarcity of resouces, I don't see a lot of interest in conservation (this forun excluded) as a view the landscape of people buying houses.
艾伦，
我在想我可能会说的最后一件事。例如，在高性能窗口主题上对GBA贡献者显示的详细信息。考虑到，谈话可能已经围绕着几百平方英尺的玻璃价格旋转。窗户经销商和制造商在这里提供信息的利益，我对窗口经销商和制造商提供了非常深刻的印象。
我记得不久前，从欧洲制造商那里买了几千平方英尺的高性能玻璃。我一年前的经销商打电话给他，并告诉他我正在进行建筑物的能源等级培训。我只能从他那里获得一个U形因素，大约是1.4 W / M2K。他不知道我的太阳热增益系数或欧洲术语，太阳能传递比例是什么。因此，软件不允许我输入一个没有另一个的非默认号码。是的。我要求经销商了解我，专门针对我收到的大型玻璃包的数字，12个月后我仍然听过Dickey Bird。
我知道，他们的合同价格为含有1,500个住宅单位的发展，是2200万欧元（他们确实在合并系统中披着玻璃窗）。我仍然没有为这些人提供U价值和SHGC的认证，尽管我已经问过。总的来说，玻璃公司提供了1000万欧元的产品。GBA团队在能够要求100万欧元的订单中要求信息，我留下了深刻的印象，我无法获得1亿欧元的欧元。我想我应该变得更加强硬！
What I really advise people to watch though, who are into the high volume residential business like I was, is this. Get a grip on your glazing contractor from the get-go. Don't allow the glazing contractor to drive a program of build. What I mean is, the window company will try to deliver their orders horizontally. Meaning, if you have say seven residential blocks, the window company will try to install all windows on the ground floor of the seven blocks first. Then proceed to the second and so on. It allows them to organise their work gangs most efficiently. But it comes at the expense of productivity in all other gangs, who do plumbing, electrical, sheetrock and all of those things that guarantee you great airtightness. If you start glazing the ground floor on all seven blocks in July, it feels great, you think the windows are coming. Wrong. By December, before holiday break the seventh floor glazing on block 'A' is just going in. At the same time as seventh floor glazing on block 'G' is also going in. The interior fitout gangs in block 'A' are going hell for leather, because they want to open that block first. No time to worry about air tightness by that time.
同样，对于U-Factor和SHGC而言，对于不同规格的玻璃。您希望您的玻璃公司每块垂直地完成工作，而不是在地板上水平。通常在高密度城市网站中，您有不同的方向。对于不同的块，无源太阳能加热条件可能非常不同。因此，您需要高SHGC的好处，您可以获得阳光，以及您没有阳光的更高的U形因素。在取向差的街区上，我将集中使用热泵，钻孔，能量桩等。在具有良好无源增益的街区上，我将减少对可再生生成小旗的费用。但是您需要在所有块中的建筑气密。为此，您需要您的玻璃公司与您合作，而不是反对您。抱歉，长度，祝福。
我应该制作一个提到的 - 我在马丁的博客条目之一，我正在观察John Brooks的一些优秀的屋檐细节。我想，我想做的一点是，需要在三维中查看细节，最好是使用手绘纸和铅笔。一个我对我有很多信心的建筑师，因为他的3-D细节感知是剃刀夏普 - 曾经参考CavityTray Dot Co Dot英国的图纸。有一系列腔托盘产品，从A到Z，网站上的小册子，以及他们显示风化问题的3维度，它们很难击败。