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Feature from Environmental Building News
July 1, 2007
The Challenge of Existing Homes:
Retrofitting for Dramatic Energy Savings
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One can hardly pick up a magazine or turn on the television today without hearing something about climate change. The issue finally appears to be gaining traction in our nation’s collective consciousness. Much of the focus of reducing greenhouse gas emissions rightly centers on how we design and construct buildings. Indeed, the 2030 Challenge, adopted by The American Institute of Architects, the U.S. Green Building Council, and others, calls for commercial and residential buildings being built today to use half the fossil fuel of average existing buildings and a gradual increase in performance so that new buildings are carbon-neutral by 2030 (see EBN Vol. 16, No. 6)....
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