Information from Solplan Review: Energy Answers

Abstract

U1hat is it like to live in what may be the world’s best-insulated house? Let’s break that question down into a few parts. First, how well insulated is your house? There is lots of insulation : the attic is R80 (RSI 14), the walls are R60, the basement walls are R60, and the basement floor is R35. It is possibly the bestinsulated house in the world. We used cellulose insulation throughout, because of its carbon-fixing nature (wood pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere) and because of its recycled content. Mat are the o th er energyefficien tfacto rs that cause the house to per-, form so well?