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New Passive House Monitoring Solution from PowerWise - International Business Times (press release)
International Business Times (press release)
Passive house buildings use 80% less energy than traditional construction and provide superior home comfort and air quality. The inView Passive™ House monitoring system documents performance, costs, and environmental conditions of buildings and ...
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New Passive House Monitoring Solution from PowerWise - PR Newswire (press release)
PR Newswire (press release)
Architects, builders, and homeowners can now track and analyze performance of buildings with the new PowerWise inView Passive™ House Monitoring. This technology is now endorsed by Passive House Institute US, the leading passive building research ...
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Passive House construction skills a unique Olympic legacy - Pique Newsmagazine
Pique Newsmagazine
Pique Newsmagazine
This year a new passive house factory in Pemberton, that will make components for the green buildings, is set for development. "This is the biggest investment we've made," said longtime Whistler builder Matheo Durfeld. "We wouldn't be jumping into this ...
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Equinox Passive House doubles as solar calendar - Gizmag
Gizmag
Modern passive house it may be, but as its name suggests, the showstopper at Equinox House in Bulgaria harkens to ancient times when humans built buildings in veneration to heavenly bodies. A narrow aperture in the roof transforms the house into a ...
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In a first for the Pacific Northwest, spec home meets Passivhaus standards - Mother Nature Network (blog)
Mother Nature Network (blog)
Mother Nature Network (blog)
Big green building news out of Seattle this week: With a blower door test meter reading of 0.58 ACH50, the first built-on-spec passive house project in the Pacific Northwest has officially achieved Passivhaus-dom. I first mentioned the project — “Unit ...
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Passive houses: Here now, more soon - The Foreigner
The Foreigner
The Foreigner
A passive house uses about half as much energy as one built according to the best practices of 2010. All new houses are required to be passive from 2015 on. The relevant Norwegian standard distinguishes between three levels of energy performance: full ...
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German Project Aims to Save Energy - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Building new passive houses and renovating existing buildings to passive-house standards are tiny steps in Germany's daunting challenge to cut energy consumption as it seeks to replace nuclear power with renewable energy. But projects such as the ...
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Feb 25, 2013, 9:00pm - Portland Monthly
Portland Monthly
The Full Plane Passive House (designed by Michelle Jeresek of Departure) is full of sustainability and energy efficient features. In the spring season of home tours, one of the newer tours on the block is beginning to stand out as a regular you don't ...
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Schuco AWS windows: Passive house standard with SimplySmart technology - China Daily
China Daily
In view of the challenges of climate change and amended legal adjustments, windows will be required to match concepts such as passive house or Energy Plus. Schuco International KG successfully meets these challenges with several aluminium window ...
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NBT's Pavawall System used in Ireland's first certified EnerPHit - Specification Online
Specification Online
The 1950s semi-detached house in Monkstown, County Dublin, was extended to Passive House standard and retrofitted to meet the challenging EnerPHit guidelines, which is the Passive House Institute's retrofit standard. Pavawall was specified for the ...
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Sustainable building the focus of Kelowna Home Show presentations - Kelowna Capital News
Kelowna Capital News
According to the Heyde-Haus website, a passive house is a very well insulated and draught-proof building, which has an annual heat space demand so low that conventional heating systems can be omitted. In other words, the house heats and cools itself.
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Home Show: Adopting European house building concepts - Lake Country Calendar
Lake Country Calendar
He became a certified master in construction and timber framing, energy adviser and passive house consultant. Heyde will be talking about energy efficient building and the philosophy behind passive housing design at the Kelowna Home Show this weekend.
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A Passive House, actively saving energy - Washington Post
Washington Post
The Passive House concept was first developed in Germany about 20 years ago as a way to drastically reduce the cost of home heating by minimizing the amount of heat required. A Passive House achieves this with its thick, well-insulated walls and roof ...
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Open gardens to open your mind - South Coast Register
South Coast Register
Pears, peaches and apples grow, protected by ironbark frames that echo the structure of the architect-designed, solar-passive house. “I have just established a big new permaculture based mandala vegetable garden,” she said. “It is split into segments ...
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REACH lands $750K for affordable housing project - Portland Business Journal (blog)
Portland Business Journal (blog)
The apartments will be located near the Orenco MAX station and be built using Passive House energy efficient standards, which can reduce energy and heating bills by as much as 90 percent. The development is one of the first multi-family projects in the ...
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World-renowned Heat Recovery Ventilation Expert to Speak on How to Evaluate ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The Passive House movement (super energy-efficient construction) has grown significantly in the United States the past few years. With the rise in popularity of Passive House construction, some confusion has arisen on how to evaluate the most efficient ...
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World-renowned Heat Recovery Ventilation Expert to Speak on How to Evaluate ... - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)
The Passive House movement (super energy-efficient construction) has grown significantly in the United States the past few years. With the rise in popularity of Passive House construction, some confusion has arisen on how to evaluate the most efficient ...
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A Treehouse To Please Both Ewok And Hobbit - EarthTechling
EarthTechling
... complexities and its connection to the exterior.” Just be sure you bring along Gandalf or a Jedi knight to help guide you through the enchanted forest. Posted on February 18th, 2013 · Comment ↓. Tags natural ventilation, oregon, passive house ...
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IMMOFINANZ AG : BUWOG Group reduces CO2 output by 13300 tonnes per year - 4-traders (press release)
4-traders (press release)
One of the numerous innovative and particularly environmentally compatible BUWOG projects, the passive house "Am Mühlgrund" in Vienna's 22nd district, has attained a remarkable achievement: out of 99 submissions it was selected as one of the nine ...
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Home in Harwinton certified as state's first 'passive house' for energy efficiency - The Republic
The Republic
HARWINTON, Connecticut — The builder of a house in Litchfield County says it is the first in the state to be certified as a "passive house" by an international group for its high level of energy efficiency. The recently completed house in Harwinton ...
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