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Affordable Passive House Green Building Lecture - The Missoulian
The Missoulian
The Northern Rockies chapter of the Passive House Alliance of North Americais having a free event at First Presbyterian Church next Thursday night. This group promotes a German Energy Performance standard called Passive House that is gaining ...
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Passive, yet powerful houses - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The idea of passive house design isn't new. It was first promoted in the early 1990s. But the concept — virtually airtight buildings, heavily insulated and using triple-glazed windows, requiring little energy for heating or cooling — has yet to ...
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Passive, yet powerful houses - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
"Unless you can show the public the projects under construction, then stand in it when it's finished, I think it's hard to understand the passive house," says Julie Torres Moskovitz, the founding principal at Fabrica718, an award-winning Brooklyn ...
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Passive Homes: The Way of the Future - The Epoch Times
The Epoch Times
The Epoch Times
The Passive House standard is the fastest growing building standard in the world. It is still in its infancy in the United States, but has taken off in countries like Germany, where it is known as Passivehaus. There are over 30,000 certified Passive ...
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Architect champions German passive-house design - Spokane Journal of Business
Spokane Journal of Business
Spokane Journal of Business
Rodell, who has had his own architecture firm since 1984, only recently started working on that type of design. Rodell says he is one of 300 certified passive-house consultants in the country after he became certified in Seattle last year by the ...
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Passiv Science Announces that its Commercial Passive House building, the ... - Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
The new Malcolm Rosenberg Center for Jewish Life at Virginia Tech is both North America's first Passive House religious assembly building and the first project to incorporate a commercial kitchen range hood inside a Passive House building envelope.
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'Passive House,' aggressive about energy savings, is under contract - Washington Post
Washington Post
What is believed to be the Washington area's first “Passive House” — a super-insulated, airtight structure that uses 90 percent less energy than a comparable conventional home — has a pending sale after first being purchased less than two years ago.
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'Passive House,' aggressive about energy savings, is under contract - Washington Post
Washington Post
to the 'Passive House'. What is believed to be the Washington area's first “Passive House” — a super-insulated, airtight structure that uses 90 percent less energy than a comparable conventional home — has a pending sale after first being purchased ...
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Certified Passive House in Oregon Maximizes Reduce-Reuse-Recycle Concepts - Jetson Green
Jetson Green
The founder of Oregon-based STUDIO-E Architecture, Jan Fillinger, is a Certified Passive House Consultant and LEED AP who has over twenty years experience in sustainable design, including the use of sustainable and non-toxic materials, integration of ...
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Passiv Science Announces that its Commercial Passive House building, the ... - Beaumont Enterprise
Beaumont Enterprise
The new Malcolm Rosenberg Center for Jewish Life at Virginia Tech is both North America's first Passive House religious assembly building and the first project to incorporate a commercial kitchen range hood inside a Passive House building envelope.
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Forget the Passive House, the JF Kit House keeps you active and fit. - Treehugger (blog)
Treehugger (blog)
Treehugger (blog)
Passive Houses are so over. Really, you get tired just looking at the JF Kit House (JK is Jane Fonda) by Spanish architect Elii (Every Live Invents Itself). Installed on a roof in Brussels, this is what should have been called an Active House, where ...
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Passiv Science Announces that its Commercial Passive House building, the ... - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
The new Malcolm Rosenberg Center for Jewish Life at Virginia Tech is both North America's first Passive House religious assembly building and the first project to incorporate a commercial kitchen range hood inside a Passive House building envelope.
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Walkabout: Couple energized by idea of a home with high efficiency - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
It will have solar panels, "to feed into the grid," Ms. de Barbaro said, but passive house certification doesn't require them; a house can be designed for maximum warming through windows --triple-paned windows, with the fridge doubling as a heat source.
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Peek Inside 8 Of The World's Greenest Homes - Co.Design
Co.Design
Co.Design
In The Greenest Home: Superinsulated and Passive House Design, a new book from Princeton Architectural Press, Julie Torres Moskovitz makes a convincing case for why it should become the standard for new residential construction, showcasing recent ...
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Zehnder America Is The First Manufacturer In North America To Receive Passive ... - Daily Markets (press release)
Daily Markets (press release)
Zehnder America announces that it has received Passive House Institute Certification for its ComfoAir 160 ERV. This is the first Passive House Institute certified ERV in North America. In previous testing, Zehnder America had its North American Heat ...
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Zehnder America is the First Manufacturer in North America to Receive Passive ... - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
Zehnder America announces that it has received Passive House Institute Certification for its ComfoAir 160 ERV. This is the first Passive House Institute certified ERV in North America. In previous testing, Zehnder America had its North American Heat ...
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Stevenson School completes first passive house at high-school campus in US - World Interior Design Network
World Interior Design Network
Stevenson School in Pebble Beach and Carmel, California has completed the construction of Johnson House at the Pebble Beach campus, the first passive house built on a high-school campus in the US.
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Best explanation of the Passive House ever. (Mildly NSFW) - Treehugger (blog)
Treehugger (blog)
La Plate-forme Maison Passive (PMP) promotes the development of Passive Houses in Francophone Belgium. They do a particularly good job of it with this video that some might consider NSFW, in which one learns that these houses have few drafts, very ...
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Passive Vs LEED Vs Net-Zero Energy - EarthTechling
EarthTechling
Via Albert, Righter & Tittmann Architects. “A building so well insulated that it needs no heating or cooling systems” could be called the philosophical definition of a passive house (PH). In reality, nearly all PHs do have heating systems. The ...
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Some Great Small Passive Homes To Know - EarthTechling
EarthTechling
Reviewing a forthcoming book, The Greenest Home: Superinsulated and Passive House Design, by Julie Torres Moskovitz, we noted that it includes some inexpensive houses. Most striking is the R House in Syracuse, NY, designed for a construction budget ...
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