On: So you want to build a house more efficiently

[shadilay]

Here in the PNW most new houses are ugly boxes with some kind of flat paneling. Quite the contrasting sitting next to far more attractive older brick houses.

[silexia → shadilay]

Brick houses are terrible for insulation, terrible for running any new technologies like wiring or plumbing through, terrible for disasters like earthquakes.

I also live here in the PNW and I know what you mean by the ugly boxes, but that is what people want.