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Research facility is first 'passive house-certified' lab in the US
University of Chicago's Department of Ecology and Evolution works out of digs designed to be energy efficient
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WHEN Joy Bergelson was planning the new field station here for the University of Chicago's department of ecology and evolution, she wanted it to be environmentally responsible. She just wasn't sure exactly what that meant.
Concepts like "natural solar gain" and "super insulation", familiar to those involved in passive house design and which all but eliminate reliance on fossil fuels, were foreign to her.
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