JOURNAL · FIELD NOTES

Notes from
behind the walls.

Working notes on the decisions that shape a home’s electrical and technology infrastructure, and when each one has to be made.

WRITTEN FOR OWNERS · ARCHITECTS · BUILDERS

What your project team actually needs.

Most writing about EMF is aimed at people who are already worried. This Journal is aimed at people who are building. The questions that matter on a live project are not simply whether a field can be detected, but which infrastructure decisions change the outcome, when they have to be made, and what can still be fixed after the drywall goes up.

Each entry takes one of those questions and works it through the way it comes up on a real project: what the constraint actually is, what the options cost at each stage, and where judgment beats a product list.

  1. 01INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE

    The Invisible Architecture of a Luxury Home

    Sightlines, materials and millwork are coordinated to the millimetre. The systems running behind them rarely get the same attention.

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  2. 02SEQUENCE

    The Most Expensive Time to Think About EMF Is After the Walls Are Closed

    Most people meet EMF as a measurement problem after they move in. By then the cheapest solutions have already been built over.

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  3. 03SYSTEMS, NOT PRODUCTS

    Why a Product List Is Not a Low-EMF Design Strategy

    The first question is almost always which products to buy. It is the wrong first question.

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  4. 04EMF AWARE INFRASTRUCTURE

    What Is EMF Aware Infrastructure?

    A modern home has an architect, engineers, builders and integrators. EMF Aware Infrastructure focuses on the electrical and technology layer where their decisions meet the occupant.

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  5. 05NIGHT MODE

    Designing the Bedroom for Night Mode

    A modern home knows how to wake up. Fewer of them know how to become quiet.

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  6. 06BUILT FOR BIOLOGY

    Built for Biology: What Does It Actually Mean?

    A modern home can be technologically sophisticated and still be designed around the people who live with it.

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  7. 07READING THE RESEARCH

    What a Project Team Can Do With the EMF Research

    Thousands of studies, an ongoing debate and a construction schedule. The useful question is not who is right. It is which decisions still hold up.

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