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Stevenson School Completes Construction of the First Passive House Built on a ... - Business Wire (press release)
Business Wire (press release)
The residential units were designed and built to Passive House requirements, which require energy efficient detailing specifications and construction strategies be integrated into the design and construction. Passive Houses are built for quality ...
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Stevenson School Completes Construction of the First Passive House Built on a ... - MarketWatch (press release)
MarketWatch (press release)
The materials needed to build a Passive House add about 10-15% to the cost of conventional construction materials and design. However the concept represents today's highest energy standard, reducing the heating energy consumption of buildings by up to ...
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Ballard Passive House by Builder Hammer & Hand Featured on NW Green ... - Beaumont Enterprise
Beaumont Enterprise
Portland and Seattle home builder Hammer & Hand announced today that the high performance building project, Ballard Passive House, will be featured in this year's Northwest Green Home Tour on Saturday, April 27th. Designed by VELOCIPEDE architects ...
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Ballard Passive House by Builder Hammer & Hand Featured on NW Green ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Portland and Seattle home builder Hammer & Hand announced today that the high performance building project, Ballard Passive House, will be featured in this year's Northwest Green Home Tour on Saturday, April 27th. Designed by VELOCIPEDE architects ...
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Ballard Passive House by Builder Hammer & Hand Featured on NW Green ... - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
Portland and Seattle home builder Hammer & Hand announced today that the high performance building project, Ballard Passive House, will be featured in this year's Northwest Green Home Tour on Saturday, April 27th. Designed by VELOCIPEDE architects ...
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How Passive Solar Paved The Way For Passive House - EarthTechling
EarthTechling
The Passive House concept is said to have come out of a 1988 conversation between a German and a Swede. Research projects were funded, the first Passivhaus (PH) residences were built in 1990, and the Passivhaus Institute founded in 1996. In fact, the ...
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New York's First Passive House Would Have No Problem Hiding From the ... - Gizmodo
Gizmodo
If you're not familiar with Passive House, here's a primer: it's a 25-year-old building system founded by a group of German and Swedish architects who proved that insulation and airtight construction can cut energy costs in typical buildings by as much ...
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Qatar gets first 'passive house' - The Peninsula - Peninsula On-line
Gulf Times
Peninsula On-line
Kahramaa President Issa Hilal Al Kuwari (second right), opening the 'Baytna' Project yesterday. Deputy Group CEO at Barwa Real Estate Co Ahmed Abdullah (right), President of Qatar University Dr Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad, Chief Executive Officer of ...
Qatar builds its first ultra-low energy villa - Gulf timesGulf Times
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Earth Day: Let's build 'passive' houses with an eco-punch - Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
The “passive house” is a revolutionary new eco-building standard where the house heats and cools itself using passive solar and smart building technology. A superbly engineered and heavily insulated building envelope means that the house acts like a ...
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Book Review – The Greenest House: Superinsulated and Passive House Design - EarthTechling
EarthTechling
The Passive House standard is catching on exponentially in the US, but we're still way, way behind Europe, where passive house construction is not only common but actually required by code in parts of Germany and Belgium. A new book, The Greenest ...
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Habitat NY's first passive houses dedicated - The Register Star
The Register Star
Designed by architect Dennis Wedlick of BarlisWedlick Architects, the houses are the first affordable Habitat houses in New York State to comform to Passive House standards. Energy use is expected to be 90% less than that of conventional house ...
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Earth Day a fitting time to start talking about the benefits of "passive" housing - Troy Media
Troy Media
The “passive house” is a revolutionary new eco-building standard where the house heats and cools itself using passive solar and smart building technology. A superbly engineered and heavily insulated building envelope means that the house acts like a ...
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Energy Miser House All But Cuts The Cord - Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
The Honigs and their two boys live in Connecticut's first certified "passive house." Thanks to several strategies — extra-thick, heavily insulated walls, heat pumps, solar collectors, triple-pane windows and more — their home uses as much as 80 ...
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A Paradigm For Prefab Passive Houses - EarthTechling
EarthTechling
What most distinguishes Paradigm—a design from Bogue Trondowski Architects—is that it may offer the first modular home on the US market that meets the passive house standard and also goes for six out of seven “petals” of the Living Building Challenge.
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Passivhaus Precedents: Zero Energy House from 1970s recognized with award - Treehugger (blog)
Treehugger (blog)
Treehugger (blog)
The idea of the Passivhaus, or Passive House building system, is often seen as a completely new idea, a mix of super-insulation, tight envelope and controlled ventilation, when in fact lot of people were looking at many of the key principles back in ...
Danish 1970s Passivhaus pioneer scoops international awardBuilding Products
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A Passive House Building Amid Heat, Humidity - EarthTechling
EarthTechling
China has joined the passive house (PH) movement with a 46-unit apartment complex. The Bruck Passiv Haus, in the southern city of Changxing. The hot, humid southern climate poses distinct challenges for PH design. The building's owner, Landsea, ...
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Avon-based Wolfworks wins 2012 Connecticut Net Zero Energy Challenge - Foothills Media Group
Foothills Media Group
AVON — A home designed and built as a passive house in Harwinton by Avon-based Wolfworks Inc. is the overall winner of the 2012 Connecticut Net Zero Energy Challenge, a design and build competition sponsored by the Connecticut Energy Efficiency ...
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READER SUBMITTED: Wolfworks In Avon Wins 2012 Connecticut Net Zero ... - Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
A home designed and built as a "passive house" by Avon-based Wolfworks, Inc. is the overall winner of the 2012 Connecticut Net Zero Energy Challenge, a design and build competition sponsored by the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund (CEEF) and its ...
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Salt Lake City Home Earns North America's Highest Energy Efficiency Certification - MMD Newswire (press release)
MMD Newswire (press release)
The Passive House Standard is widely considered the most difficult and meaningful energy consumption certification because it requires a reduction in total energy use far below what is required by the building code or any other "green building" programs.
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Attractive Net-Zero-Energy House On A Budget - EarthTechling
EarthTechling
Notice that I switched from “passive house” to “net-zero-energy” between the two paragraphs. Architect Ted L. Clifton finds that in some design elements it's cheaper to go for slightly lower standards than Passive House and then to make up for the ...
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