10 days ago by Jamie Wolf

I know something new. I know how to design and build homes that are dramatically better than any I’ve ever built. What I know is radically simple. It is systematically measurable and therefore proven. It works. Click to view PH Illusration at NY Times What I know is how to design and build using the ...

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10 days ago by chad

Yesterday we looked at some lessons learned from our aggressive air sealing goals on the Passive Project. In doing so we mentioned that we will be utilizing building gaskets and air sealing tape to help obtain the very difficult building air tightness goal of 0.6 ACH @ 50Pa that is required by the P ...

100K House Blog - 100khouse.com · Rank: 17,886 · 120 references

11 days ago by Valerie Jenkins

We recently attended the Passive House conference in Illinois. Passive House refers to a rigorous but voluntary standard for super energy efficient buildings. The standard focuses on “passive solar design” (i.e. balancing solar energy gains and losses), super-insulation, advanced window technology, ...

The Serious Materials Blog - blog.seriousmaterials.com · 13 references

12 days ago by chad

It’s been a while since we posted on any technical aspects of the Passive House we are trying to build in the Passive Project. We recently tested our air sealing with a blower door test prior to drywall at the homes and I figured it would be a good time to bring up some thoughts on our current air s ...

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16 days ago by Tim Eian

Repost of an article by Martin Holladay about his visit at the 4th North American Passive House Conference this past weekend in Urbana, IL: “Clearing away misconceptions will improve the dialogue between Passivhaus advocates and American builders”

TE Studio Blog - timeian.com/blog · 2 references

17 days ago by stepoffthegrid

Footprint Constructions Green Home. This week and probably the next couple of weeks we will be working on designing and documenting how we are building the house green. Kyle is working on getting the basic structure designed, then he will start incorporating some of the details the NGBS requires. I ...

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19 days ago by Tim Eian

Article: In Defense of the Passive House Standard A point-by-point clarification of why the Passive House Standard sets a worthy goal for North America by my colleagues, Marc Rosenbaum and David White. This reposted article follows up with John Straube’s article, referenced in my last post.

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24 days ago by Preston Koerner

With only the engineering and net metering contests remaining, the Solar Decathlon entry for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is now slightly ahead of other contenders, including Team California and Team Germany. It's a tight competition, though. Solar Decathlon director Richard King y ...

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26 days ago by Bridgette Meinhold

We’ve been bringing you breaking coverage of this week’s Solar Decathlon in Washington DC throughout the week and one of the most interesting homes to emerge from the competition is the North House, a super sleek, high-tech solar powered home designed to generate more energy than it consumes – an es ...

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32 days ago by Gennaro Brooks-Church

Here is an interesting Comment by John Straube, which was responded to by the Passiv Haus people here.. His comments give good US insights into a German standard. His points are that Passiv Haus standards are not brand new and that US and Canada have had them for a while. Not that many have implemen ...

ECO BROOKLYN INC. - ... - ecobrooklyn.com · 7 references