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Vancouver, BC
Co-owner & Lead Designer
Lanefab Design/Build
B.Eng M.Arch
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Build for a livable climate.
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It’s low voltage
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Ok! Made it to 2k km with a few days to spare
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Our little built in bench
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There are more windows on the other sides - but also limitations due to fire code, and overlook.
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Interesting.
The high level narrative seems really focused on students.
Is there data on industry sectors for the work permits?
(Before I became a PR I was on a nafta work permit that was rolled over from my student permit)
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Nice!
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Thanks. Those are definitely the two areas that have risen in prominence in the last decade.
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Oh? Can you send the link?
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Also need to get ULI onto Bsky.
Anyway... here's the morning talk:
britishcolumbia.uli.org/events/detai...
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All the layers.
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We’ve been doing that in alaska for the last few elections. It’s great
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It’s been a lot of years since I was an EIT in the states… I’m not sure of the technical rules, just the usage as I see it
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And here’s the article!
I believe that design can and should be a force for positive change.
www.vanmag.com/city/people/...
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Anyway - this article was literally about me being a “shit disturber” so it felt wrong to let it slide.
🍻Cheers to the select Architects and designers out there who are pushing for real change in our world.
You’re the ones I have respect for.
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When you graduate with an engineering degree you are an “engineer” and if you jump through the hoops and pass the tests you become a “professional engineer / P.Eng”
It’s a good value add.
It contributes to the brand.
AIBC should do the same.
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The AIBC could use an additive honorarium like “Registered Professional Architect, RPA” which would be a value-add.
Instead they waste member dues paying lawyers to police language in a way that nobody gives a #%^ about.
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Back to the main issue:
The problem is that the semantics are largely meaningless to anyone outside of the profession.
There is very little brand value because so few people understand the distinction between an “Architect” and a “designer”.
It’s just bad branding.
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Sidebar: I didn’t need to get registered to design and build houses or advocate for planning policy, so I didn’t do it.
I have a degree in architecture from UBC, and design buildings for a living, but I describe myself as a “designer”.
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The process of becoming a registered architect is a long and challenging process and I have a lot of respect for my friends and colleagues who have gone through the process.
That accomplishment should be recognized, but the way the AIBC does it is just dumb. I’m sorry.
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Why does this matter?
Because it’s not only a lost opportunity to do some actual good, but it’s also really phenomenally stupid branding on the part of the organization.
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Climate? Affordability? Social justice?
No
the AIBC serves only to protect the brand of “architect” and (it seems) to harass me any time someone else describes me as an “architect”
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This update is courtesy of a threatening legal letter from the Architectural Institue of BC @aibc - an organization that seems to exist only to police language and not to actually accomplish anything of societal importance or advocate for any kind of positive change for our community at large.
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Haha yeah fair enough!
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No, just my sense of the relative potential impact of each after 15 years of doing both permitting and panelized prefab
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Putting aside all those other envelope details, then the question is how to actually deliver on an airtight building.
You need:
1. An ACH target
2. Air-tight design
3. Air-tight construction and testing
(more on these to follow...)
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If you do care about those things then you want to have an airtight building, and bring fresh filtered air into the house using a heat recovery ventilator (and) make sure you only have 1 vapour barrier in your wall, in the right location.
(2 vapour barriers = "wet sock in a ziploc" and isn't good)
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This type of "breathing" house has worked for the last hundred years (to the extent that you don't care about emissions, pollution, energy use, or the fact that your air is being sucked into the house through 100 year old walls full of dead rats and asbestos)
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1.0 ACH is actually pretty air-tight.
Many new homes might be at 3.5 ACH, and older homes (aka draughty wind tunnels) might be 8.0 ACH or more, which is so bad that all the air leaks out of the house every 10 minutes.
...you burn fossil fuel to make warm air, then it blows out the roof & walls
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We often talk about air leakage in terms of "air changes" i.e. imagine the entire amount of air inside a house leaking out, and getting replaced by outside air, over the period of one hour. This is 1.0 ACH (air change per hour).
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highlight for me today (one of many) was when i learned 5468796 Architecture's johanna hurme grew up in point access block midrise and validated everything i've been saying on single stair... and then said her firm calls thick floor plate double loaded corridor 5 over 1's 'stumpies'
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Quoting work by @stephenjacobsmith.com
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Would like to but I’m getting married tomorrow…