Research
& observations.
Positions we keep returning to, written down so they can be argued with. These are working notes rather than published papers — they cite standards where standards exist and say plainly where they do not.
01Insulation is not a strategyAdding resistance to a wall is a decision about one term in a balance. In several Indian climates it is not the term that matters.02The dew point is a design decisionCondensation inside an assembly is not bad luck. Its location is set by the order of the layers, and somebody chose that order.03Comfort is not a temperatureAir temperature is one of six variables, and often not the one doing the work.04What Passive House does and does not transferThe method is sound. Some of the assumptions underneath it were formed in a climate that is not this one.05Models compare, they do not predictA simulation of an unbuilt building tells you which option is better. It does not tell you what the meter will say.06Five climates, one countryA detail that is correct in one Indian climate zone can be a defect in another. The zones are not a formality.