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SOURCES


Following is a list of sources consulted in design of the Enertia® Building System.

BIOMIMICRY, Janine M. Benyus, William Morrow and Company, Inc, New York 1997 (How products and processes can be environmental by mimicking natural biosystems)

DESIGN WITH NATURE, Ian L. McHarg, The Natural History Press, Garden City, NY 1969 (Explanation of negentropy)

EFFECTIVE U VALUES, L.W. Bickle and W.J. Van der Meer, Report No. 76-161-B, New Mexico Energy Institute, February, 1978

THE EFFECT OF MASS ON HEATING AND COOLING LOADS AND ON INSULATION REQUIREMENTS OF BUILDINGS IN DIFFERENT CLIMATES, M.J. Cantani and S.E. Goodwin, ASHRAE Transactions, 1979, Volume 85, Part 1

EFFECT OF THERMAL MASS ON HEATING AND COOLING LOADS IN RESIDENCES PROGRAM, R.S.Dougall and R.G. Goldthwait, Proceedings of the Conference on Energy Efficiency in Wood Building Construction, Chicago, IL, 1977

EFFECTS OF WALL THERMAL MASS ON HEATING AND COOLING LOADS IN RESIDENCES, R.S. Dougall and W.P. Rudoy, ASHRAE Transactions, 1979, Volume 85, Part 1

ENERGY CONSERVATION THROUGH BUILDING DESIGN, Donald Watson (ed.), 1979

THE ENERGY ECONOMICS AND THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF LOG HOUSES; TECHNICAL EDITION, Doris Muir and Paul Osborne, Muir Publishing Co. Ltd., Gardenvale, Quebec, Canada, 1983

A FIELD STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF WALL MASS ON THE HEATING AND COOLING LOADS OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS, D. M. Burch, et. al., National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1982

HEAT TRANSMISSION, W.H. McAdams, McGraw-Hill Col, Third Edition, 1954

HEAVY BUILDING ENVELOPES AND DYNAMIC THERMAL RESPONSE, M.J. Cantini and S.E. Goodwin, ACI Journal, 1976, Volume 73, No. 2

HEAVY TIMBER CONSTRUCTION, Fred. Rl. Oberg, Second Edition, American Technical Society, Chicago, IL, 1968

HOW BUILDINGS LEARN, Steward Brand, Viking Penguin, 1994

PLANNING AND BUILDING THE MINIMUM ENERGY DWELLING, Burt Hill, et.al., 1977

ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE, 1739 Snowmass Creek Road, Snowmass, CO 81654

SIMPLIFIED BUILDING DESIGN FOR WIND AND EARTHQUAKE FORCES, James Ambrose and Dimitri Vergun, Third Edition John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1995

THERMAL INERTIA IN ARCHITECTURAL WALLS, Francisco Arumi Noe, 1979

TIMBER CONSTRUCTION MANUAL, American Institute of Timber Construction, Englewood, CO, 1985