Maine Architects Chris Briley and Phil Kaplan share their experience, knowledge, music preferences, and cocktail recipes. --Imagine going to a Building Energy conference, donning your name tag lanyard, attending a great session on an interesting topic, taking a bunch of notes, and filling your quota of power point slides for the year. This podcast is nothing like that. This is like going out to a bar afterward with the speaker and fellow architects and talking about that forum session. --Chris is a principal at BRIBURN architecture for life. --Phil is a principal at Kaplan Thompson Architects
Latest episodes
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1 h 11
What Heat Pumps Actually Need to Work
00:00 Welcome To GAL00:02:50 The Old Pal Cocktail00:06:14 Meet Scott Libby00:11:30 Why Heat Pumps Belong In Maine Now00:13:47 The Right Home For Heat Pumps00:21:55 Insulation And T…
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43 min
Low Voltage Lighting is the Future
00:00 Welcome To GAL 00:01:42 Low Voltage Spritz Cocktail 00:07:01 Why Low Voltage Now 00:08:55 Phil's Attic Fire Story 00:12:44 Rethinking LED Circuit Math 00:17:16 Copper Costs A…
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1 min
A Quick Update From Chris
Chris Briley checks in with a quick update on this week’s episode of the Green Architects Lounge. Phil is taking care of a few things outside the show, and Chris assures listeners…
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54 min
Plan for Systems or Pay for It Later
00:00 Welcome To GAL 00:02:48 The Last Word Cocktail 00:11:19 Why Mechanical Rooms Keep Growing 00:17:41 How Much Space Do You Actually Need 00:20:05 Think Distribution From Day On…
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36 min
What House Burping Gets Right And Wrong
00:00 Welcome To GAL 00:33 House Burping Trend 02:47 Scorched Earth Cocktail 09:05 What Is Lüften? 11:07 Measuring CO2 13:34 Air Changes Matter 16:08 Indoor Air Problems 19:14 Burp…
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53 min
Building Sustainably In A Housing Crisis
00:00 Show Intro 02:43 Hot Paper Toddy 06:21 Why Housing Hurts 11:36 Musical Chairs 13:07 Durability Matters 14:35 Sustainability Tradeoffs 17:07 Density And Growth 19:01 NIMBY Roa…
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1 h 01
The Green Spec Playbook For Cleaner Builds Part 2
05:20 Back In Play 05:26 What Makes Finishes 10:19 Drywall Alternatives 12:30 Flooring Reality Check 21:56 Low VOC Paint 28:42 Exterior Coatings 32:30 Countertop Tradeoffs 36:36 Sp…
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1 h 02
Window Specs For Greater Comfort
00:00 Back to windows01:11 SHGC cocktail03:18 Sponsor break07:00 Why windows matter11:22 The key metrics13:24 U-factor basics17:36 SHGC and comfort23:57 VT and tint27:17 Low-E deco…
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1 h 14
The Green Spec Playbook For Cleaner Builds Part 1
00:00:00 Welcome Back00:04:10 Why specs matter00:10:05 Division 01 basics00:20:30 Site and salvage00:26:45 Low carbon concrete00:32:45 Masonry and metals00:33:55 Wood and toxicity0…
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47 min
Designing Homes That Stay Strong When It Counts
00:00 Welcome back01:09 Storm chaser cocktail04:05 Passive house wildfire10:37 Resilience vs durability15:23 Designing for hazards22:35 Durable cold climate details28:54 Resilience…
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1 h 00
Stop Scope Creep with One Meeting
00:00 Welcome & scope creep defined 02:02 Cocktail: Classic Bramble05:51 Why projects grow beyond plan09:38 Program exercise: rooms, office & garage14:45 Square footage reality che…
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1 h 01
Build Tight, Ventilate Right: Don't Be an Airhole
00:00 Intro & Cocktail of the Day02:42 What We Mean by “Airhole”08:05 Why Air Sealing Matters14:47 Ventilation vs. Infiltration21:19 Building Science in Action36:31 Common Air Seal…
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58 min
Don’t Let Your Basement Suck (Heat, Money, or Air)
00:00:00 Intro & setup00:00:53 Cocktail: Whiskey Sour (recipe + dry shake)00:06:50 Basements: the "free room" myth00:08:48 When a basement makes sense00:10:47 Concrete & embodied c…
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1 h 02
Ep52_Jacob Racusin Lecture - Part 2
Welcome back for part 2 of Jacob's lecture from the PassivhausMAINE lecture series on addressing embodied carbon in our built environment. We close the episode with a song from one…
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60 min
Ep51_Jacob Racusin Lecture - Part 1
Chris and Phil were not only lucky enough to attend a lecture by Jacob Racusin, but they were also able to record it! Our friends at PassivhausMAINE invited Jacob to share his insi…
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1 h 10
Ep50_Offsite Construction and High Performance
Welcome to Episode #50!!! So many people are talking about offsite construction as an inevitable next step to solve the myriad housing issues we currently face, and we can't help b…
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1 h 15
Ep49_Siding
We know. You want a sustainable siding that is maintenance free and affordable. The problem is that there are just so many options from which to choose and it's difficult to wade t…
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1 h 03
Ep48_Embodied Carbon in Buildings
Embodied carbon is carbon that is emitted in the production of materials, and the building industry is responsible for 40% of global annual emissions. Buildings are the problem AND…
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1 h 07
Ep47_Solar Storage
In this episode, Chris and Phil head over to the Portland Pod to record because they have not one, but two guests (Geoff Sparrow and Fred Greenhalgh of Revision Energy) to talk abo…
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60 min
Ep46_Living Building Challenge
What is a Living Building? It is rooted in place yet harvests all it needs (energy, water), is adapted to its climate and site, operates pollution-free, is comprised of integrated…