\u201cDeep decarbonization\u201d is all the rage in energy circles, but what does it really mean for actually retrofitting and remodeling buildings? Is it just about replacing oil and gas-fired boilers and furnaces with electric equivalents? Or does it actually mean something far more complex and interesting? Our guest in this episode is a registered engineering technologist in building construction technologies and an award-winning expert on the integration of the building sciences and health sciences who believes the best solutions come from an integrated design approach that takes all elements of buildings and human experience into account, not just how we heat our buildings. This lengthy, wide-ranging, and often humorous discussion covers everything from building science, to regional and national politics, to human physiology and psychology, to the ways that we teach architecture and building design, and much more\u2026and it will leave you with an entirely new concept of what \u201cdeep decarbonization\u201d really means. Plus: we finally delve into the arcane but important concepts of exergy and entropy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In space heating, \u201cdeep decarbonization\u201d is about a lot more than just swapping old furnaces. It requires a complete understanding of human health and comfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[324,318,317,319,325,73,321,320,322,195,315,316,323],"class_list":["post-1189","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-architecture","tag-buildings","tag-cooling","tag-deep-decarbonization","tag-design","tag-efficiency","tag-entropy","tag-exergy","tag-health","tag-heat-pumps","tag-heating","tag-hvac","tag-physiology","xen_guests-robert-bean"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n