Side note: Am I posting this in the right forum or are there more appropriate forums for this or other websites you guys know of that might be able to provide additional help? I'll share the information I figure out back and forth for everyone's benefit. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
Thanks SWComposites for the replies. A textbook recommendation would be fine. I'm sure the formulas would be in there.
Do you mean something like this? https://www.amazon.com/Passive-House-Details-Solutions-High-Performance/dp/1138958263
To be clear on my scope of the project, while I'd like...
Thanks SWComposites! I've seen that site before but I haven't looked at it recently in light of this project. One thing I'm looking for is some of the math / formulas behind earth berm structures. I understand the R-Value math and I think I understand the U-Value math. However I'm still not sure...
What Gr8blu did sounds like a really good idea. I'll incorporate some of that into my design.
I know I could build this much more simply and quickly out of wood, mostly like Gr8blu did.
However I'm using this project to learn about house foundations and to find the best practices for them, but...
Great tips so far, thanks!
The shelter is for multiple dogs, 4 large breed ones at the moment. In the future it may be for less hardy animals.
Yes, for 1 dog it would be a bit large, but we had them in an enclosure of similar size in warmer seasons and the size seems about right to prevent...
I have a Master's in IT and took some physics courses, but I'm not yet at the level where I could model a thermally ideal concrete structure for animals in northern US winters, so I'm hoping to get some advice here. I have access to chief architect software if anyone wants to just whip up a...
