Notes from Infrastructure Talk

How much will you sacrifice for fashion? It´s a question we all ask, especially in the winter. But we aren´t usually thinking about architecture at the time.

Dr. Kim Pressnail, this month´s WSIC guest speaker, made it clear that when it comes to building requirements in this province, form and function are seriously out of balance. And he had a lot of ideas about how to right them.

There are two big reasons to reduce energy use, he explained. The first is cost: it´s cheaper to conserve …

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Infrastructure – Are we missing the obvious?

On Monday, we’ll take a look at Energy needs in Ontario.  Ontario´s population is growing,so its energy needs are too. But no one wants a new gas-fired power plant if it’s going to be in their own backyard. In WSIC’s first event of 2012, U of T’s Dr. Kim Pressnail will tell us how Ontario can reduce its need for more power plants in local communities.  His solution is to decrease the burden on our energy grid by mandating better building requirements.

Do you agree? Disagree? …

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