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Scott Farbman

1 year

6 years ago, a health condition disabled me. 2 years ago, my mom had a hemorrhagic stroke. My spouse has a connective tissue disorder (EDS) that disables her. It took these things for me to start questioning how disability is viewed in buildings, architecture, and design.

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@theprovenwinner how do you not go for unlimited gravel?

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@Imani_Barbarin because of Trump nominated Supreme Court justices …?

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@duckbldg Hard no.

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Every 3 months I will post my ERV filter replacement to show you all how dirty and bad our outdoor air quality is. This is Jan - April 2024 in Chicago. Do you really want your lungs to filter this?

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2 years

@djdemarzo @HongPong Holy shit. Shatner trying to be vulnerable and Bezos just flat out does that?

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@D_Vandergriff Hi Darren, I hope you hold out and don't give in to eating indoors. In my opinion, this is not a reasonable compromise. Eating outdoors is the compromise to not eating out vs eating out.

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2 years

Anyone have the R-Value of dense packed acorns ?

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A woodpecker drilled holes in someone’s house in California and filled them with acorns. When the homeowner cut open the wall, the nuts spilled out. All 700 pounds of them. These photo! They are amazing. Story by @smessenger via

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2 years

@DoctorPissPants Unfortunately houses have some of the worst ventilation and indoor air quality of any building type - so this is not advisable from a virus transmission perspective.

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1 year

@drgurner We got in at 2.99% but our home is riddled with systemic issues that were covered up by a “nice looking flip”. The hot market allowed sub par work, which is a commonly overlooked negative outcome.

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@poormansfemini1 @punished_cait Mineral based or elastomeric paints are both vapor permeable, allowing moisture to pass through

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2 years

@mindyabiznyz @ticklerpitts @DoctorPissPants Becoming disabled really fucks with you.

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2 years

@WilliamsForOPPD I feel like the improvement to indoor air quality and occupant health gets overshadowed by boiling time.

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6 months

@CrabbBrendan @DrPops3 I’m still shocked by what our outdoor air looks like.

Scott Farbman

@ScottFarbman

9 months

Every 3 months I will post my ERV filter replacement to show you all how fucking gross and bad our outdoor air quality is. Do you really want your lungs to filter this? Or your equipment?

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2 years

@ticklerpitts @DoctorPissPants It should be pretty obvious that I don’t go to parties anymore 🤷‍♂️

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2 years

@wunderyst I’ve really enjoyed the disability content that Zach has been putting out though …

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1 year

@0xAlaric if you really care about energy shortages, natural disasters, and resiliency, the original image should be this:

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2 years

Architects make shit $$ given the education and licensing requirements.

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2 years

YOU THERE. YES, YOU. WHAT'S A LITTLE-KNOWN FACT ABOUT YOUR PROFESSION THAT WOULD MAKE OTHER PEOPLE LOSE THEIR SHIT?

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10 months

@SWardArch @theprovenwinner i figure it just sorta shoots our of your hands

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9 months

Every 3 months I will post my ERV filter replacement to show you all how fucking gross and bad our outdoor air quality is. Do you really want your lungs to filter this? Or your equipment?

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Scott Farbman

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1 year

@0xAlaric I don't know who "they" is and had trouble following your tweet, but I do always take the opportunity to advertise and education on Passivhaus / Passive House !!

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Scott Farbman

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2 years

@mom_in_dystopia My infectious disease doctor (I’m immunocompromised) literally just told me getting COVID is an inevitability. And that the statistical risk of getting severe COVID was on par with a car accident. No mention of long COVID. All this in response to me requesting a virtual visit 🤷‍♂️

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Scott Farbman

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2 years

The last 15-20% of thermal performance required by passivhaus in order to hit arbitrary heat loss thresholds isn’t worth the material, money, and construction headache for the diminishing returns on site energy reduction it provides.

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@jmfowl

2 years

What’s an architecture opinion you only sort of hold that will have people at you like this

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@NjbBari3 Disabled and high risk people dying, many people getting long COVID, eventually becoming disabled and high risk themselves, and dying - rinse and repeat

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7 months

@CompletedStreet No one in the history of the world has only spent $45 at Costco

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2 years

@brianthehuman Did you catch the thread on ReTwitter a month or 2 ago from Moses (I’d link but he blocked me) where he was saying regulations (like fire code and sprinklers) is preventing him from building more “affordable” housing (and he lets the market define affordable housing) ?

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Just got the word that we will be working on a 30 story mass timber building in the US !!

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here is a cool view of the solar eclipse from our rooftop PV system

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@t__________duds I still don’t understand which strategy he is advocating for. The entire tweet is so confusing.

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7 months

@seanw_m is lime wash kosher for you?

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2 years

The moment you realize every Morphosis building is an embodied carbon disaster and think back to why all your university professors idealized them …

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6 months

one of my Passive House projects just passed its final blower door at 0.36 ACH50 (0.032 cfm per sqft of enclosure), nearly 2x tighter than the required tightness from Phius. 💪💪💪

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2 years

You’d think after 4-6 years of architecture students getting reamed for not including north arrows on their plans, they’d never forget it in professional practice. WELL YOU THOUGHT WRONG

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@tanyalewis314 This really helps reinforce my decision to skip my company’s in-office retreat and holiday party. The FOMO really sucks, but it was worth it.

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Scott Farbman

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30 dwelling unit apartment building: Double pane IGU (U-0.26): $94k Triple pane IGU (U-0.14): $100k Guess which one the developer wants to go with ….

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@ready4preddy I’ve been working full time 12 years, 6 years at my current job and I get 7 paid holidays and 15 combined vacation/sick leave annually. This policy, which is very common, actively incentivizes people to work while sick, because they do not want to jeopardize their vacation time…

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@KRaymerBishop Couldn’t agree more! Also, the pro gas folks say, you can safely cook with open combustion, as long as you have proper ventilation, which pretty much every home lacks. Meanwhile if we can’t get proper ventilation policy from COVID, what makes then think they can for cooking.

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@GeorgeMorgan13 I use this image in a presentation (typically to university students), along with an image of a boring looking passivhaus, side-by-side, and poll for “which is more sustainable?”

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Scott Farbman

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2 years

This is why houses need mechanical ventilation (with energy/heat recovery) with filtration: our indoor air quality is bad (high TVOVs), so I opened a window (our only means for fresh air) at 6:45am, not knowing that the outdoor air quality is also bad (high pm2.5):

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5 months

An ERV is an Energy Recovery Ventilator. It is a mechanical device that constantly brings in fresh filtered outdoor air, while simultaneously exhausting old stale indoor air. It is one of the most efficient ways to ventilation because it exchanges heat between the two airflows.

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4 months

why does every garden hose suck so badly?

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1 year

@seandsweeney I’m pretty sure I’m working more hours from home, unintentionally. Always just a few mins away from the computer, super easy to jump on. If I wake up early I’m usually inclined to just get an early start.

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@amyliztweets here's the thing though, there is a huge percentage of disabled and medically vulnerable people who cannot engage in in-person socializing because no one is willing to mask or take precautions to ensure their safety.

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Scott Farbman

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@Daniel_E_Park @luckytran Imagine if your home just had good ventilation (and as a result IAQ) all the time and you didn’t need to do all the window/fan gymnastics. This is actively being stonewalled by the National home builders association at the code development level.

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@laurenancona "and i should've known the risks bringing a book to work" LOL WHAT

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Scott Farbman

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10 months

I think I can officially share that this is the 32 story mass timber tower in Milwaukee that I have been providing Passive House consulting on.

Construction could start in 2024 on Milwaukee's next timber apartment tower

A 32-story tower would add 381 apartments to downtown Milwaukee upon its planned completion by early 2027, and it would join the ranks of the world’s tallest mass timber buildings.

www.bizjournals.com

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@ScottFarbman

2 years

@JolentaG That progression: it’s too hard -> it’s the governments fault -> don’t care, doing it anyways !

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@ScottFarbman @Karnythia @GOOHghost safer options are great but hard to come by, esp in the winter. the government should be providing all of these businesses with better air filtration systems. obviously, they're not, bc that's too much like making sense. either way i'm going to go to a restaurant or bar sometimes

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@ToddWitteles @ikepoker So he spends 12 hours wearing something to protect his health and you then expect him to jeopardize that just for a photo op? 🤯

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Scott Farbman

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@knguyenpoetry I work at a smaller company… Does HR typically manage the salary discussion ? For me, it is with my supervisor.

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1 year

@CohenSite @Stuart_Adams Google says glass blocks have an RValue of 1.75-1.96. Even at R2, that is a U-Value of 0.50, which is pretty terrible for a window assembly. IECC 2021 requires U-0.30 for nearly everywhere.

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@TheKeithiest @Riginal_Zen @mitchellscomet You dont think half the world wishes disabled people would just shut up and die quietly ? We are being left by the wayside.

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Fauci to BBC: "Even though you'll find the vulnerable will will fall by the wayside, they'll get infected, they'll get hospitalized, and some will die. It's not going to be this tsunami of cases that we've seen." So disappointing. Never ok to minimize the harm of any community.

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don’t paint brick, but also, look at how much cooler white brick is?

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2 years

@culturaltutor mies van der rohe, the grandfather of thermal bridging and overheating

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1 year

Expert level specifications

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2 years

I know this is a very privileged thought, because there are many in the world without a toilet, BUT - having a bidet has revolutionized our bathroom experience. We now refer to our time on earth as BB (before bidet) and AB (after bidet).

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@DeVerdadera1 It would be great if the general public was aware of the measures that very important/rich people go through to avoid catching COVID. It would help reinforce that it’s still a serious issue that requires serious attention.

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Scott Farbman

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6 months

this is the design style we should be promoting

Elrond Burrell (he/him)

@ElrondBurrell

6 months

Greenhaus: Ambitious affordable Passivhaus residential block completed in Salford #passivhaus #passivehouse

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Happy rooftop solar interconnect day !

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@punished_cait We did it, but we have our reasons 😎

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2 years

About to commit the cardinal sin of owning a brick building: painting it!

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@bobbyfijan Going through all the effort of a timber structure just to go hard on curtainwall, does not compute.

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Am I missing something here? They go through all this effort but most of the water still ends up in the municipal sewer system ??

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I'm not sure what to think of this.

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@SilvermanJacob @RaxKingIsDead You can get a slide-in Frigidaire induction for about $200 after the IRA incentive

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@mindyabiznyz @ticklerpitts @DoctorPissPants I encourage you take a minute and demonstrate some empathy for disabled folks who can no longer gather indoors.

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A developer we are working with in Chicago is ABSOLUTELY LIVID that they are now required to provide balcony thermal breaks. Thanks Chicago Energy Transformation Code !!

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2 years

I just submitted my first multifamily project as the CPHC for Passive House review! #Passivhaus

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@theprovenwinner I even agreed for a second and we live in a 1914 flat roof building in Chicago.

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10 months

@LynnBecker very proud to be part of the team destroying this interior!

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@PanickedFoodie Ugh, that is really terrible. I hope you can find someone who will do that. I have a really hard time understanding how a provider, who is in a career of improving other people's health, has such a hard time participating to mitigate health risk to those very same people.

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2 years

@OurNewHomecoach Design every building to carbon budget to keep global warming under 1.5C

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someone (white male) just said “silence is consent” on a meeting (to move on to the next item) and i shivered deeply

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@laurenancona with most IAQ issues, most will choose ignore this

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@SustainableTall Can’t we argue that the building on the right is being set up to be a poorer performer? -more overhanging conditioned area -more surface area -more opportunity for thermal bridging - more more more

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Dentist: what is that box on your lap? Me: portable HEPA Dentist: oh, I’ve got a big one right, even has UV Me: oh cool! is it on? Dentist: no, only during certain procedures Me: 🤔 (CO2 just over 1,055 ppm)

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This is our outdoor pm2.5 levels, during this time period, which shows many days with levels above 15 ug/m3, which is the WHO recommended maximum threshold for a 24 hour period.

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Scott Farbman

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@thatmaskedgirly I miss Trader Joe’s. We haven’t been there since covid. I didn’t consider it this way though, and now I’m starting to miss it less.

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2 years

3 months of city air

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9 months

@t_NYC check out the outdoor NYC PM2.5 levels though... consistently above the recommended annual WHO levels (5 ug/m3). below the recommended max 24 hour levels though (15 ug/m3), but still high. it really sucks that people are forced to ventilate w windows

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Scott Farbman

@ScottFarbman

1 year

Just confirmed, we got the green light to do both Passivhaus consulting and carbon LCA modeling for this mass timber high rise in North America.

Scott Farbman

@ScottFarbman

1 year

Just got the word that we will be working on a 30 story mass timber building in the US !!

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@seandsweeney Overall, way better for me, even with the blurred boundaries (that I’m working on maintaining better)

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@mindyabiznyz @ticklerpitts @DoctorPissPants Umm what ?

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@1goodtern @progressiveer

Laura Miers

@LauraMiers

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It’s mighty strange how everyone is *extremely* concerned about gas stoves while running around unmasked, infecting & reinfecting their kids, in & out of hospitals, as Covid quietly kills 4000 Americans a week (while disabling countless others). Media manufactures our realities.

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@Coll3enG It’s not just an infrastructure issue, it’s an industry issue. Typical homes are not designed to perform efficiently. Energy codes are not set up to enforce things like: this house can only take on X amount of heat during peak seasonal conditions. This is where passivhaus shines!

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@GeorgeMorgan13 The green veg towers

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2 years

Disabled people don’t need to “just stay home”… we just need access to spaces and people that actually give a damn. These CO2 readings are from a Saturday morning dog training class. The indoor environment stayed around 600 ppm during the actual session:

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@RealGayArbys I recommend checking to see whatever device you purchase is on the CARB certified list:

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2 years

What’s worse? Americans needing to work in metric or literally anyone else needing to work in imperial? I’m on a meeting right now for a U.S. project that has German consultants, and I cannot imagine how infuriating it must be to them to have to work in imperial units!

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@WVDiana6 @mom_in_dystopia It’s in the works.

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@joeyfox85 The dentist who was recommended in a COVID safe fb group

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@ScottFarbman

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Dentist: what is that box on your lap? Me: portable HEPA Dentist: oh, I’ve got a big one right, even has UV Me: oh cool! is it on? Dentist: no, only during certain procedures Me: 🤔 (CO2 just over 1,055 ppm)

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@vcmcguire Wondering why the ventilation and air quality of the space didn’t come up in the discussion

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Scott Farbman

@ScottFarbman

2 years

ERV is fully in and running! Still need to Cx it, but air is moving through. All in, about $1,300 spent between equipment and materials. A few runs to Home Depot. About 20 hours of work for 2 people (with little HVAC knowledge) Very impressed by my spouse for her ingenuity!

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Hi Architwitter!! I am a disabled architect in the USA. Did you know that the AIA: -doesn’t include disability in their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement? -doesn’t include data on disability in its demographics report. Are we not important to you @AIANational ??

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@BarryHunt008 @j_g_allen Wow, thank you for adding this in. So surprised to see @j_g_allen support this.

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@antiviral_mktng She went absolutely nuclear on Covid cautious black people, who only said that equipment to protect themselves is expensive. No one named Nukit or the torch, but Naomi took it upon herself to sick her entire following onto these people and ridicule them into oblivion.

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Scott Farbman

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@earthumbrella OH my... I had a somewhat similar experience. I was at my (supposed) covid cautious dentist and I brought my portable HEPA with. Dentist asked what it was, and I told him. He points to a big machine nearby and says that's my HEPA filter! I asked if it was on and he said no...

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Scott Farbman

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2 years

Future single family home builders, hire an architect who does this:

Marilyn Moedinger

@mwmoedinger

2 years

When I say I *design a house,* this is what I mean. 💪This is a sketch/test model where I'm figuring out duct runs, ERV runs, equipment locations, etc. I work with a mech engineer for the calcs then I pretzel this stuff in. If you want it done right, you gotta do it right.

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@annaironside I envy your clean-ish dirty filter

Scott Farbman

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9 months

Every 3 months I will post my ERV filter replacement to show you all how fucking gross and bad our outdoor air quality is. Do you really want your lungs to filter this? Or your equipment?

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we get this kind of request frequently: "The owners are seeking the highest LEED certification level achievable with the minimum impact to the Project cost and schedule. We’re currently pouring foundations." lol

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Scott Farbman

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@vcmcguire This is information I’d be interested in know if it were me. That said, a museum (probably) has good ventilation and very finely tuned climate control so it seems like a safe bet.

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@GeorgeMorgan13 The greenwashing is strong with this one

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2 years

Worked really hard this week to get an exciting 40 unit multifamily passivhaus in Somerville MA into the second round of design review with PHIUS. Hoping to get the green light on design certification! I really love seeing all the PH development coming out of Massachusetts !

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