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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

Published Thu, Nov 27, 2014 · 09:50 PM
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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.

But the 52-year-old is an evolutionary bio…

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