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We bought a new build apartment last year and the heatwave we're experience in the UK made me realise it might be kinda perfect for the changing climate. We're north facing, so it stays cool. The walls are THICK and the doors are all firedoors, so again, very thick. It has an air flow system, which isn't air con, but it keeps the air moving, i'd be intrigued to know the energy difference this compared with air con would have.

I think Americans are very used to air con/heating. Once my brother lived in Minnesota, and told me how they had their heating so high they used to have to open the windows. It was snowing outside. Wild.

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Thanks so much for sharing! That does seem like the kind of forward-looking building design we need more of. I've also lived in so many old apartments where I've had a similar experience to your brother: tenants can't control the heat, so it's impossible to adjust — and we accept the wastefulness as a necessary byproduct, something that we can't really afford to do anymore.

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Definitely, especially in England. We have this issue where we have built homes to keep us warm for hundreds of years, now when it gets hot all the heat gets trapped inside and we're suffering in 30-35 degree Celsius weather indoors. Not ideal.

Wow, that's crazy! I wonder if we can introduce laws to stop this from happening... Not my area of expertise lol.

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I just experienced that in London firsthand, lol. We were there in mid-June during what I assume was unseasonably warm weather, and despite the temperature dropping to the 50s F in the evening, the flat we were staying was terribly hot at night.

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yup!!! its awful. I mean--great for the winter, but not for climate change lol.

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