April 29th, 2012
On the much debated decission made by the Norwegian government last week about having all the new buildings at the Passive House standard, BA has interviewed arch. Daniel C. Tabacaru, from DAC architecture regarding the chances to fulfill the standards by 2015.In the same article were interviewd Steinar Anda from Husbanken and Tor Helge Dokka [...]
March 29th, 2012
Probably you have heard quite often when you are trying to touch the topic of sustainability at the day-to-day level, the argument that “my change of habits as individual is not going to make any difference”. And that is a “reasonable” argument when the people are making a clear division between small scale events and planet size [...]
March 16th, 2012
In a very simple and clean TED talk, Paul Gilding is analysing what happens to our planet now, and the consequences we are facing for not acting. Even if at the rational level we know that we can´t trick the laws of physics and that we are using 1,5 Planet Earth at the moment, we [...]
March 13th, 2012
A new project developed by DAC architecture, this time a set of row houses developed in Bergen, Norway. The project deals not only with energy efficiency but also is tackling the areal efficiency. Taking about energy efficiency without taking also about areal efficiency is a non-sense. Therefore DAC architecture is addressing this issues like multigenerational [...]
January 26th, 2012
So, another Enova Conference went by with interesting and not so interesting presentations. But most of them interesting and full of energy and hope that finally the things are moving into the right direction here in “the oil nation”. Anyway the starting movie, linked above shows a lot of optimism, and that´s always good!:) And [...]
January 21st, 2012
A Passive House like no others:) The house is part of a new series of houses developed by DAC architecture at the Passive House standard. The house are going to be prefabricated, using sustainable materials. Details will come soon, and also the other 3 houses developed as part of the project. For more detaisl please [...]
December 31st, 2011
A very interesting documentary about planned obsolescence or better said planned disposal of our goods. A documentary about why do we have to buy so often things to keep the economy rooling and growing as a prerequisite of our “consumerist society”. (the Documentary was broadcasted on NRK2 a while ago).
November 9th, 2011
Arch. Daniel C. Tabacaru has been invited by REECO and ISPE as a speaker for the 2nd International Passive House Conference in South- Eastern Europe , held in Bucharest. The Conference is focusing on both products for Passive Houses and policies to implement energy efficiency at a larger scale. Arch. Daniel C. Tabacaru is going [...]
November 7th, 2011
DAC architecture, through arch. Daniel C. Tabacaru congratulates Røy-Edy Lie, from Liegruppen, for getting the regulation plan approved for his dream Bildøy-the coastal town. arch. Daniel C. Tabacaru has worked on the project while being employed at Link Signatur in Bergen. You can read more about it in this article from BT and see the [...]
August 21st, 2011
On May 27th 2011, arch Daniel C. Tabacaru, our certified Passive House Architect, had a lecture for the Bergen Kommune, Buildings Department. The Lecture was a result of an invitation from Bergen Kommune for a consulting services regarding the Passive House standard for new and refurbished buildings in Bergen area. The professional environment allowed an in depth analysis of the [...]
April 24th, 2011
There are a lot of people that have something to say about Passive Houses. But not all of them knowing what a Passive House is. The result of this is the spread of a new type of folklore: The Passive House Myths:) The Norwegian Housing Bank (Husbanken) made a short movie (in Norwegian though) about [...]
March 25th, 2011
Please remember to turn off the light this coming Saturday, 26 th of MArch between 2030 and 2130. It is just for 60 minutes from your life, but think about the impact it might have as there will be 1,3 billions doing the same thing as you, as there were last year, in 2010. Just [...]
January 24th, 2011
Last week there was an article republished by BT from Aftenposten (19 jan 2011) that got me to the keyboard. There are quite a few errors in the above mentioned article, from the journalistic point of view and mainly from the building knowledge point of view. I will not focus on the journalistic mistakes, as it is [...]
January 21st, 2011
A poster sent to COOP Cluj , an exhibition / manifest for urban problems, mainly caused by the autocracy of cars. Unfortunately the text was in ROmanian, but on the other hand the sketches should be clear enough:)
November 4th, 2010
A short video giving the arguments of action vs non-action about the biggest issue of our times: The Climate Change.And everything done in simple diagrams and words.
October 7th, 2010
Today, the thirdPassive House Conference for theNordic countries has started in Aalborg, Denmark. It is a very good opportunity to discuss and identify the best solutions for the PH concept in the nordic climate and context. I will keep u updated as the event unfolds. Just as a comment, more and more buildings are done [...]
September 4th, 2010
Browsing on the Sustainability Television, I have found an interesting solution and alternative to the chemicalone proposed an used by BP for cleaning up the Gulf.
Take a look at a very handy idea:)
August 3rd, 2010
Andrew Jones is bringing hope to climate change by modeling how it can be reversed. It is a bout us in the end, and how our generation will be seen by the next ones.
July 11th, 2010
it has been quite a while since the last entry onto my blog, but with a lot of things to do and the will to give a facelift to my website… there was no time:) But here is an amazingly instructive and well explained about the world we are living in and create! And that [...]
February 22nd, 2010
You can easily calculate your footprint now on WWF site. You will se how many planets do you need to support your life stile as it is now , if everybody will live like you. A tip,a fter you create your account, go to the eco tips and fine tune your footprint, and also see [...]
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