HENRY GIFFORD
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Henry Gifford
Henry Gifford started buying apartment houses in Manhattan when he was twenty, and wondered why one building used four times as much fuel as another. He spent years in the business of making apartment house heating systems work better, and started looking at the building around the heating system. He now works on designing and supervising construction of buildings that use about 15% of the energy a normal building uses, cost no more than code minimum construction, and use no new or fancy technology. He is one of very few people working in the field today who does not get paid out of your taxes.
Henry Gifford is a libertarian, has never drank or used drugs, has no religion, is uneducated, and has never owned a TV.
Speech Topic: Building Science
Building Science is the study of the movement through buildings of heat, light, air, sound, fire, smoke, and moisture in its various forms. This is a science largely unknown to people who design, build, own, or live in buildings. Knowlege of building science can help answer questions such as:
- Why is it hard to name a tall building built in the past ten years that has not had a scaffold up to fix water leaks?
- Is the mold crisis real or imagined, and what is really going on and why?
- Why do you have to bring a sweater to the movies in August?
