Re:The health benefits of better air
by PurpleFoxy on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:09AM
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First we have to get to the point where basic insulation and noise dampening are figured out. House quality is really terrible.
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Re:The health benefits of better air
by randomsquared on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:14AM
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In the USA yes, especially the west coast. In Poland I was about to get a condo constructed but not doing that anymore, but the process was quite interesting. The insulation blew most everything in the USA out of the water. Mostly because they have no choice given the really cold winters. During the winter pollution gets really bad and if you shut the windows, pollution goes down indoors, but so does CO2. Ideally you have a hepa filter + outdoor A/C that brings in warm filtered air during the winter.
Noise dampening is still an issue. Where I'm living, the whole flat is subject to resonance, when old buses drive by. It's like living inside the throat of a bass vocalist. That, and I hear every laugh a child has outside, even though I'm on 7th floor (8th, if you count like USA-ians do). It's terrible.