FAQ's, Architect FAQ's Performance Consulting Guided by Building Science September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team 06 Apr 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 demand for it, but hey, that’s show business baby! Over the last 15 years, we’ve built our reputation and business on offering high-performance mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering services to the residential architecture market with a focus on health, comfort, and decarbonizing. Given how rare it is to see MEP expertise brought into residential projects, we naturally drifted toward the high end of the market. And, as fun as it is to work on homes with endless budgets, our passion to make a broad societal impact left us wanting to find more ways to make our expertise available. So, we spent some time chewing on this quandary, and we came up with an eerily familiar idea: let’s create a new constellation of services that the residential design market has not really seen much of before and maybe doesn’t even want, and see how it goes. It worked with MEP engineering, so why not try it again?Read More>>
06 Apr FAQ's, Architect FAQ's, Source 2050 New Tool for Assessing Upfront and Operational Emissions: No Passive House Emissions Backfire Found September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team The past few years have seen a rapid ramp up in our collective understanding of the impact of embodied carbon (more aptly called “upfro... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Architect FAQ's Is the Greenest House the One That’s Already Built? September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team When it comes to combatting climate change, the high-performance building industry has made great... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Homeowner FAQ's Habit Studio Rehabilitates Historic Halifax Home September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team Construction is in progress on Halifax, Nova Scotia’s first Passive House retrofit, designed by Habit Studio and built by Root Developm... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Homeowner FAQ's A Home Rebuilt for Barcelona September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team 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... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Homeowner FAQ's Comprehensive Passive Strategy in a Brooklyn Brownstone September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team Carroll Gardens sits just south of downtown Brooklyn and is well known for its artisanal shops, leafy residential streets, and histori... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Passive House Basics Passive House Intro September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team The Passive House approach empowers us to build better. It creates durable, resilient buildings that slash heating energy use by as mu... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Building Codes Our City Could Become One of the World’s Greenest, but It Won’t Be Easy September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team 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... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Building Codes Reaching for a Passive House Code: California’s Nascent Adoption Journey November 1, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards, commonly called Title 24, are maintained and updated every three years by two state... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Building Codes Mike Fowler Shares Passive House Code Wins in Washington State September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team Mike Fowler, board president of Passive House Northwest (PHnw) and architect at Seattle architecture firm Mithun, is that powerful com... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Passive House Basics Forbes: Passive House – Building The Efficient Home Of The Future September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team People in the United States as well as many around the world are becoming more conscious of our dwindling resources and global warming.... Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Passive House Basics PHA: What is a Passive House? September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team There are usually two important questions that are asked: “Why would you build a Passive House?”–and–“What is a Passive House?” Continue reading
06 Apr FAQ's, Passive House Basics Passipedia: What is a Passive House? September 21, 2023 Posted by Source2050 Team A building standard that is truly energy efficient, comfortable, affordable and ecological at the same time. Passive House is not a bra... Continue reading