WELCOME BACK If you’ve stuck with me this long, thank you! You must be just as much of a buildings / climate change geek as I am. Earlier, I wrote about [https://infraculture.org/2020/02/24/what-can-a-building-technologist-do-about-climate-change-part-2/] about the need to address building related greenhouse gas emissions and discussed

Core & Shell In an earlier post [https://infraculture.org/2019/12/01/what-can-a-building-technologist-do-about-climate-change/] , I wondered: How does one determine what to spend one’s time on, in a shift to focusing on climate change? Particularly one who has an obsessive interest in people’s experiences with buildings and the

Title inspired by Bret Victor’s piece “What can a Technologist do about Climate Change? [http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/]“ Something that has been swirling in my mind lately: personally having a more direct impact on our quest to reduce the causes of climate change. While I’ve been indirectly involved

An excellent framing of the fragmentation in the building industry can be found in Dana A Sheffer’s 2010 dissertation on the Diffusion of Energy Saving Technologies in the Building Industry [https://gpc.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj8226/f/wp057_0.pdf]. (Also see related work here [https://www.