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What is Passive House?

2015-06-27T22:03:14-04:00May 6, 2015|Regional Feature|

Passive House is a building standard.  It is a voluntary international building standard developed by the Passive House Institute (PHI), located in Darmstadt, Germany – referred to also as The Passive House Standard.   The Passive [...]

Imagine Passive House

2015-05-06T15:07:40-04:00May 6, 2015|Regional Feature|

Conjure an image of home. Of your elementary school. Of your office. They’re familiar. Now imagine your own Passive House. More difficult, right? But what if Passive House can describe a school, an apartment building, [...]

Why Passive House?

2015-08-01T06:09:43-04:00April 6, 2015|Regional Feature|

Building to the Passive House Standard[1] reduces our buildings’ operational energy demand to an optimized extent through passive measures and components such as insulation, airtightness, heat recovery, solar heat gains, solar shading and incidental internal heat [...]

Let’s Make Airtightness Normal

2015-05-06T15:17:48-04:00March 6, 2015|Regional Feature|

Building Efficiency and Blower Doors: Essential Responses to Sandy By Ken Levenson, "Superstorm Sandy has produced a torrent of meetings, plans, reports, announcements and actions by city, state, federal and non-governmental organizations. Today, before their [...]

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