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  • 1.  AIA CA roundtable on decarbonization & affordable housing

    Posted 07-27-2020 10:01 AM

    AIA California / August 6: Decarbonization and Affordable Housing Roundtable:

    California is facing critical challenges to build more affordable housing, reduce structural inequities from pollution, and meet our legislated carbon reduction goals.

    This Roundtable will address how efficient electric building technologies combined with clean, renewable energy can lower construction and operating cost, improve health outcomes, and dramatically lower emissions. To date thirty-one California cities have passed electrification reach codes to encourage this transition.

    The panel will focus on opportunities and challenges for decarbonizing the most fundamental building block of an equitable, low-carbon future: affordable housing.

    While this focuses on CA, the challenges and opportunities are instructive for other states and regions as well.

    https://aiacalifornia.org/decarbonization-and-affordable-housing-round-table/



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    Kira Gould
    Principal
    Kira Gould CONNECT
    Oakland CA
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  • 2.  RE: AIA CA roundtable on decarbonization & affordable housing

    Posted 07-30-2020 09:21 AM
    Kira
    As a AIA Strategic Councilor I'm currently involved with a work group looking at Affordable and Equitable Housing. Specifically my sub group is looking a "policy" issues. I's love to listen in to this roundtable discussion if possible.
    Mike McGlone, AIA
    Alamo Architects
    TxA Regional AIA / Strategic Councilor 2022

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    Mike McGlone AIA
    Alamo Architects
    San Antonio TX
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  • 3.  RE: AIA CA roundtable on decarbonization & affordable housing

    Posted 08-03-2020 09:11 AM
    Hi Mike, just wanted to understand if you had a roundtable for us to listen to--is there a link?
    Also, if you don't know about the New Gravity Conference, which focuses mostly on Passive House and Affordable Housing, it will be on line this year, and will feature some policy discussions. It's this week, and you can find out more here: https://new-gravity-housing-conference.heysummit.com/#
    Thanks
    Tom

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    Thomas Bassett-Dilley AIA
    Principal
    Tom Bassett-Dilley Architect, Ltd.
    Oak Park IL
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  • 4.  RE: AIA CA roundtable on decarbonization & affordable housing

    Posted 08-05-2020 09:38 AM
    The link was in the original post ... and here it is again ... 
    https://aiacalifornia.org/decarbonization-and-affordable-housing-round-table/

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    Kira Gould
    Principal
    Kira Gould CONNECT
    Oakland CA
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  • 5.  RE: AIA CA roundtable on decarbonization & affordable housing

    Posted 08-11-2020 09:27 AM
    Hello,

    In general the fire-rated exterior wall assemblies listed in your older Manuals are based on older energy code requirements, for instance the item below ... which hasn't met Vermont residential energy standards for decades. 
     
    Have any of your manufacturers stepped up to get tests for relevant, modern wall assemblies with insulation values in the R20s? To do so would do much to restore the relevance of your publication - at this point I'm not sure whether it will make sense to buy it when it comes out.

    With kind regards,

    Robert Buchan AIA, CSI
    Robert Buchan Architect PLLC
    5052 VT Route 100
    Plymouth, VT 05056
    robert.buchan.architect@gmail.com

    (T) 802-672-2140