Making houses inside the Arctic Circle more durable and energy-efficient holds challenges — some less obvious than others. Southern Canadians know that winters there are cold and deep. Fewer may understand the roles that a short but intense summer’s heat and accelerated ultraviolet damage play under the 24-hour-a-day “midnight sun” made famous by poet Robert [...]
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