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Performance Consulting Guided by Building Science
Positive Energy is a unique firm. We actually might be crazy for doing the kind of work we do in the face of relatively low historical ...
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Is the Greenest House the One That’s Already Built?
When it comes to combatting climate change, the high-performance building industry has made great gains by focusing on reducing operati...
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Habit Studio Rehabilitates Historic Halifax Home
Construction is in progress on Halifax, Nova Scotia’s first Passive House retrofit, designed by Habit Studio and built by Root Developm...
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A Home Rebuilt for Barcelona
How do you sell the benefits of Passive House in a climate that is pretty lovely most of the year? Micheel Wassouf, principal of Energi...
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Comprehensive Passive Strategy in a Brooklyn Brownstone
Carroll Gardens sits just south of downtown Brooklyn and is well known for its artisanal shops, leafy residential streets, and histori...
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Our City Could Become One of the World’s Greenest, but It Won’t Be Easy
Rules are being drafted to guide compliance with a 2019 New York City law that requires most of about 50,000 buildings, many over 25,0...
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Reaching for a Passive House Code: California’s Nascent Adoption Journey
California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards, commonly called Title 24, are maintained and updated every three years by two state...
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Mike Fowler Shares Passive House Code Wins in Washington State
Mike Fowler, board president of Passive House Northwest (PHnw) and architect at Seattle architecture firm Mithun, is that powerful com...
06
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Forbes: Passive House – Building The Efficient Home Of The Future
People in the United States as well as many around the world are becoming more conscious of our dwindling resources and global warming....
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PHA: What is a Passive House?
There are usually two important questions that are asked: “Why would you build a Passive House?”–and–“What is a Passive House?”
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Passipedia: What is a Passive House?
A building standard that is truly energy efficient, comfortable, affordable and ecological at the same time.
Passive House is not a bra...