After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Frans Saraste - Taking Stock of an Energy Transition

Taking Stock of an Energy Transition

Frans Saraste

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Gustaf Adolf Nummelin’s house located at Puutarhakatu 4, Helsinki, with a wood-fired tiled stove in the background. Photo: Erik Nummelin, ca. early twentieth century. Source: Archives of Helsinki city Museum.

After Comfort: A User’s Guide
October 2024










Notes
1

Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, and Paul Warde, Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), 5.

2

In Finland, the average lifespan of ventilation systems and radiators is estimated at 15 to 25 years. Janne Laksola, "Tiedätkö missä kunnossa taloyhtiösi ilmanvaihto on?," Kiinteistöliitto Uusimaa (blog), May 22, 2023, .

3

"Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic And Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: An EU Strategy on Heating and Cooling" (2016), .

4

"EU Parliament Backs Law Aimed at Saving Energy by Renovating Buildings," Reuters, March 14, 2023, .

5

Juha Vinha, "The impact of tightening energy efficiency regulations for buildings: Theory and Practice," presented to the Finnish Parliament, February 11, 2016.

6

O. Guerra Santin, "Occupant Behaviour in Energy Efficient Dwellings: Evidence of a Rebound Effect," Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 28, no. 2 (June 2013): 311–27.

7

See Barnabas Calder’s Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (London: Pelican, 2022); and Daniel Barber’s “Heating the Bauhaus: Understanding the History of Architecture in the Context of Energy Policy and Energy Transition” (Kleinman Center For Energy Policy, 2019).

8

Jan Kunnas and Timo Myllyntaus, "Postponed Leap in Carbon Dioxide Emissions: The Impact of Energy Efficiency, Fuel Choices and Industrial Structure on the Finnish Energy Economy, 1800-2005," Global Environment 2, no. 3 (January 1, 2009): 177.

9

In the heating season, one fuelling a day was generally adequate for thermally performing rooms.

10

See G. Andersson and K. Ekman, Fornnt Och Nytt (Helsinki: Tekniska förening i Finland, 1947), 88.

11

Strebel was a common brand of central heating boilers.

12

K.V. Hyvärinen, "Keskuslämmityslaitosten suhteesta uuneihin," Rakennustaito, November 21, 1925, 275.

13

Emil Keso, "Uuni- vai keskuslämmityskö? (Stoves or Central Heating?)," Teknillinen aikakauslehti no 4 (1925): 224, .

14

The masonry walls were still used as passive ventilation channels, as seen in the image.

15

This is the case in the comparison of Rahapajankatu 1 and Runeberginkatu 35.

16

Emil Keso, "Keskuslåmmityslaitoksista," Teknillinen Aikakauslehti 6-7 (June/July 1913), 125, .

17

"Rakennusmestarien oman kokoustalon hankkimispuuha," Rakennustaito 8 (April 1916), 106, .

18

Emil Keso, "Uuni- vai vesilämmityskö?," Teknillinen Aikakausilehti, n.d., 223.

19

Translated to English from: Vannas, "Turun kirje," Uusi Aura 284, October 19, 1924.

20

Ulla Haverinen-Shaughnessy, "Meneekö sinun asunnossasi helleraja rikki talvellakin?," THL (blog), 2016, ; World Health Organization, "Housing and Health Guidelines" (Geneva: World Health Organization, 2018).

21

Despoina Teli et al., "Drivers of Winter Indoor Temperatures in Swedish Dwellings: Investigating the Tails of the Distribution," Building and Environment 202 (September 2021): 108018.

22

Georgia Savvidou and Björn Nykvist, "Heat Demand in the Swedish Residential Building Stock: Pathways on Demand Reduction Potential Based on Socio-Technical Analysis," Energy Policy 144 (September 2020): 111679.