Beautiful Day

If you haven't heard of this you should give it a try. a nice song by U2.

ok that is me being random. yesterday was the start of my new subject called Zero Carbon House. going into the class without any idea what it was about is really not a good start. and it gets worse when I was late for an hour. as soon as I get there Terry was talking about global temperatures. I repeat, TEMPERATURES. not climate. and I became clueless as he kept on giving lecture on temperatures for another hour. 

so after a short coffee break we got back to our class and Terry introduced us to a guest architect named Max Pritchard. soon afterwards Max begin his slideshow presentation of his projects showing us range of residential houses that he has built over the years of his career. He even told us a story of how one day he was approached by one company who wanted to hire him but giving him a task of developing a series of plans and ideas of his ideal home. and he did like 30 different version of floor plans in just ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON! that shows how experience is important for your career and the time when it matter the most.

After Max has gone home, we were given our project for this subject which is to build a Zero Carbon house with an energy rating of 7.5. I was told by some people that it is hard enough to get the rating to 5.5 let alone 7.5. A friend of mine, Chunyin, spent his whole week at uni when he was doing a similar subject to this in  previous years trying to improve his house rating from 2.8 to 5. Even Terry told us the average rating of Max's house is between 0-3. 

So what we can do now is try to improve on what these people can't do. If we can't do this I don't think Terry will give us this task. so there should be a way after all. lets just hope for the best!