My biggest problem with LEED for Homes to date: It's not a progressive process.
No, like fighting for equal rights progressive but that it hall has to happen at once. It works for commercial, but it doesn't fit home owners. You get ONE chance at getting your rating. How many home owners do you know who are actually 'done' with their homes in one round???
The process should be set up where you could build upon past performance. If in 3 years I put up a wind turbine, why can't I tack those points on to my score? Instead, the process caters to having more $$ to gain more points which makes it inaccessible to many.
LEED for Homes.
Star Date 276.
That's how many days I've been filling out paperwork.
Gas bill last month: $25 | Electric bill: $60
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Eddy,
Rather than quote $ values, care to share kWhr's and quantity of gas?
FWIW, electricity $0.96US/day + $0.1466US/kWhr here.
It THIS now the official portrait of the Triumvirate?
only if I get to be Kirk.
The average monthly electrical consumption for Missouri is 1,121 kw/h. So far, our home has been using an average of 668 kw/h, so a bit more than 1/2 the average for this region. I'll have better figures after we've been here a year. That number should be high because it was mostly summer months.
ave. cost in MO $0.0763/kw/h
OMG!! Our electricity is twice as expensive.. ;-(
Avg daily residential consumption in NZ is about 25 kWhr's. Or 1/2 MO's average.So in $ terms spend approx the same.
From what I've seen, homes in NZ seem to be designed more efficiently and less about more space and instead better space. Plus you guys don't have the seasonal throws that MO has (-20F to +110F) over the course of the year. unless I'm mistaken.
funny a standard home in NZ uses the same energy as a LEED home in MO. why do you think that is?
funny a standard home in NZ uses the same energy as a LEED home in MO. why do you think that is?
Number of reasons.
1.. Temperate climate with still relatively poor insulation requirements.
2.. Electricity used to be 1/2 price it is now before Government privatise the industry to make electricity cheaper for the consumer ;-). So little incentive to live in well insulated houses until recently.
3..Only just now getting into solar water heating even though it has being a temperate climate it can supply ~70% of HW requirements.
4..Not unusual to have 30-40% glazing area in living areas.
One flat I lived in would have ice on the INSIDE of windows on cold days even though outside temp only approx -3degC ;-)
wow. hello thermal bridging.
can I ask what's the typical temp inside a NZ house? is it 68F / 74F like it is here (winter / summer)?
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