Homes designed to keep heat in are now struggling to cool down
Energy optimizing in colder climes is usually accomplished by packing lots of insulation and installing air-tight windows. Climate change and rising temperatures have, however, also complicated such solutions.
BY JESS SHANKLEMAN, BLOOMBERG NEWS
When it was completed in 2012 for the Summer Olympics, Lydia Yuzva’s housing complex in East London was hailed as a beacon of green design and energy efficiency. The 2,800 units, a mix of apartments and town houses, have floor-to-ceiling windows, lots of insulation, and environmentally friendly heating systems that use waste heat from a nearby power plant fueled with biomass and gas. They were designed for the U.K.’s cold winters, trapping heat to reduce energy bills.
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