[MCN] New homes, schools, offices: Energy-guzzlers no good for climate or wallets

[Lance Olsen]

Public Release: 3-May-2017
Tighter building controls needed to achieve government global warming targets
UNIVERSITY OF BATH
Thousands of new homes, schools and offices may be using much more energy than they should, and the reason is rather unexpected, according to the authors of a new study published by the University of Bath.

JOURNAL
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uob-tbc050217.php>The study 'The building performance gap: Are modellers literate?' is published in the Building Services Engineering Research and Technology journal and can be accessed at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0143624416684641 <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0143624416684641>
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"Direct effects of climatic warming can be understood through fatal decrements 
in an organism's performance in growth, reproduction, foraging, immune competence, 
behaviors and competitiveness. Performance in animals is supported by aerobic scope, 
the increase in oxygen consumption rate from resting to maximal (9). Performance falls 
below its optimum during cooling and warming. At both upper and lower pejus temperatures, 
performance decrements result, as the limiting capacity for oxygen supply causes hypoxemia. 
Beyond low and high critical temperatures, only a passive, anaerobic existence is possible."

Portner and Farrell. Physiology and Climate Change. Science  October 31 2008

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