Carefully designed home gets most energy from the sun
November 3, 2008 By Mark St. John EricksonTurn off State Park Road into this community of up-scale beachfront houses and you can see what makes life in the Grandview section of Hampton, Va., so attractive.
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The secrets were; the use of industrial design techniques utilizing precast concrete slabs and the utilization of the passages incorporated therein, concrete walls, properly designed greenhouse w/ precast overhange to minimize heat input in the warmer months (obviously facing south), super insulation (equivalent to what is standard practice today), storage of the heat in the large masses of concrete construction materials. This was big a step away from the traditional stick construction used in N.E., and it worked(s).
1) opinion, not fact
2)the larger the floor area (=function of volume)the lower the exposed surface area to living area (volume), thus the easier to maintain a given temp.
2) 50% less than their neighbors is not "most" of their energy, its half.
3) Hampton Va isn't really that cold.