Cohousing-L Mailing List: R-2000

[William Zimmerman (wbzedder]

The book on R-2000 is the Canadian Home Builders' Association Builders'
Manual: R-2000 and it is available from :
        Attn: Sandy Kaczmarek
        Canadian Home Builders' Association
        150 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 200
        Ottawa  ON  
        Canada  K1P 5J4
for US$ 55 for the USA people, CAN$ 55 + GST for Canadians and CAN$ 55 plus
shipping for others.

The computer program, HOT 2000  Ver.7, is available for Mac or PC from the
same address.  They ship to a US version with a US weather data filesbased
on TMY data. It costs: US$325 for the US version (no shipping charge in the
US), CAN$295 +GST for the Canadian version in Canada.  The Canadian version
contains some weather data files from other cities (16 US cities plus
Berlin, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; Frankfurt , Germany; Glasgow,
Scotland; London, England; Lyon, France; Paris, France; Sapporo, Japan;
Stockholm, Sweden; and Vienna, Austria). Outside of the US and Canada they
charge for shipping.

They will take VISA or MASTERCARD orders. 

R-2000 isn't perfect but it seems to be evolving in a useful way. 

You might also be interested in a book on an "environmentally advanced"
house  that describes one of the Ontario houses built under an Advanced
Houses program in Canada(the next step forward from R-2000).  The book is
called Greenhome.  The author is Wayne Grady and the publisher is Camden
House.

There is a magazine called SOLPLAN REVIEW which covers this stuff on a
regular basis.  It is available for CAN$ 40.66 a year and US$ 46 per year
in the US and other foreign countries.  Write 
        the drawing room graphics services ltd.
        Box 86627 
        North Vancouver BC
        Canada  V7L 4L2 
for a subscription.  They take VISA and MASTERCARD , too.
   

        
         
        

         
                                

William (Bill) Zimmerman
Email:  wbzedder [at] fox.nstn.ca