This article (though I’m only about a third of the way through so far) is great! Really really on-point, and hopefully widens some already open eyes. It certainly resonates with me, and introduces some bigger-picture ideas that relate to a theme that’s always troubled me:
That the set of metrics we generally use to measure green building efficiency/performance are so often about energy or resource use per unit floor area. EUI, and more recently MUI (material use intensity), tend to focus on use-per-floor-area, as opposed to absolute use, or use-per-person, or use-per-service/function.
And while it may be obvious that the real goal is limiting total emissions and resource use (as opposed to emissions and resource use per ft2/m2), it seems that that part of the equation is generally ignored.
*What examples are there of green building metrics, rating systems, etc that don’t measure performance with ft2/m2 in the denominator of a fraction? Of metrics that appropriately evaluate performance in ways that incorporate the thinking that this article proposes?