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Articles

Masonry Heating
Sustainable Construction

General

Healthy Housing

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Masonry Heating

• Top 10 Articles
  
  
• Best Technical Articles
  
  
• High Performance Masonry Heating
  Steve Bushway
• High-Tech Old-World Technology Latest Trend in Heating
  by Marge Padgitt
  

• Whole Earth Review - Fire Issue
  Recommended

• Woodburning, forestry and global warming
  A scholarly paper on woodburning and the forest. Recommended reading.
  
• A Simple Test Can Spot Carbon Monoxide Danger
  located at Energy Source Builder
  
• Woodburning and the Environment
  John Gulland
  
• Fireplaces: Studies in Contrasts
  A.C.S. (Skip) Hayden, P.Eng
  (Paper is located at HearthNet)
  

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Sustainable Construction

GENERAL

• Sustainable Construction: Has it Reached Critical Mass?
  Norbert Senf / MHA News V7N1
  
• Integrated Wood Energy Systems for Sustainable Housing
  Mario Kani, P.Eng., Allen Associates, Toronto
• Paul Hawken and the Ecology of Commerce Norbert Senf / MHA News V7N1
  
  
• Marylin Waring - Sex, Lies and Global Economics
  Katharine Fletcher

HEALTHY HOUSING

• The Canadian Home Builders' Association Builders' Manual
  Best book available that describes the building details pioneered in Canada's R-2000 program
  
• Environmental Building News
  The leading periodical in the field. Their archive of feature articles is one of the highest quality collections of sustainable design and construction information on the Net.
• Reusing Treated Wastewater in Domestic Housing: the Toronto Healthy House Project
  by Rolf Paloheimo, Creative Communities

Ten Basic Concepts for Architects and Other Building Designers
by Hal Levin - located at Environmental Building News

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MHA News

MHA News V8N1

Adobe Acrobat 3.0 PDF Format.

 

Table of Contents:

• High Performance Masonry Heating
  by Stephen Bushway
• Integrated Wood Energy Systems for Sustainable Housing
  by Mario Kani
• Heating Water with Masonry Heaters
  by Norbert Senf
• Washington State Fireplace Emissions Standard Under Way
  by John Crouch
• Space Heating and Fireplaces: The View from CANMET'S Combustion Laboratory
  by Skip Hayden
• Design and Operating Factors Which Affect Emissions from Residential Wood-Fired Heaters: Review and Update
  by Paul Tiegs
• The Hearth as an Element of the Sustainable House
  by Norbert Senf
• Short Course on Masonry Heating Systems
  by Norbert Senf

MHA News V7N2

Technical Papers

Technical Papers Archive

• • Masonry heating
  • Wood combustion
  • Codes and Regulations
  • Sustainability issues
    

Lopez Labs Archive

Published technical papers, abstracts, preprints and datasets from masonry heater and masonry fireplace testing at Lopez Labs

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Simulation Software

Simulation Software

Special Collections

Special Collections

A subset of the Library. Those materials that actually reside on the MHA-Net server. Includes a few obscure items found nowhere else!