The Five Thousand Pound Life: The Energy Issue
Recorded May 10, 2014
The Five Thousand Pound Life: The Energy Issue was a symposium on energy and architecture organized by The Architectural League and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in May 2014.
The Energy Entrepreneurship panel focused on two start-ups, The Megawatt Hour and Radiator Labs, and their innovation in the energy sector. The founders of these companies are in conversation with Jeremy Leggett, Kate Gordon, and Rosalie Genevro, participants from earlier in the day, as well as Mark Wigley, former Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
In this segment, Founder and CEO of Radiator Labs Marshall Cox details how his retrofit for an old energy system, the steam radiator, can increase operational efficiency and climate comfort. The insulating radiator sleeve, connected to a building-wide wireless system, evens the distribution of heat between apartment units, eliminating the need to open windows due to overheating, which causes significant energy loss. The panel responds to Cox with discussion on the importance of increased cultural pressure for energy consciousness, and the regional differences in attitudes toward energy consumption in the United States.
Cox is also an alumnus of InSITE, an organization that helps early-stage start-up companies. He holds six US patents.
The Five Thousand Pound Life (5KL) is an initiative of The Architectural League on new ways of thinking, talking, and acting on architecture, climate change, and our economic future.
The Energy Issue is a GSAPP initiative to make energy a cultural issue, launched in partnership with Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope®. Follow the initiative @theenergyissue.
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