No Country for Wet Buildings

Cormac McCarthy’s world is one where the old rules no longer apply and the threat is relentless. It doesn’t negotiate, it doesn’t respond to the usual countermeasures, and it doesn’t stop. This is the panel, and it earns the title there. The panel is the moment the room stops being told that past practice is no longer adequate and concludes it for itself, after Lew and Grant have put the evidence in front of them. Climate change also earns its place here: conditions in northern Australia are already beyond what most HVAC systems were designed for, and the gap is widening