Passive house / Discussions

...Passive House Certification, etc. I'm by no means an expert but I have some knowledge that would make me wiser when choosing architects and contractors. I don't think I can convince my partner to go full-on passive, but I believe I can convince them to put money into the house early if it will pay off. In other words, ...

...house in New Brunswick. We don't have green home plans to offer sorry, but you should check out our prefab LEED and Passive House ready kit houses. Some of these manufacturers of prefab homes offer design services for a fee, so you can make modifications to suit your lifestyle. Smaller homes are more eco-friendly simpl...

...Passive Solar Home Design If it's mid-September and you are calculating this now, does that mean you are still in the design phase or have you started building?  If so, and if you’re not a mathemagenius, AND you can wait until December 21st, then you could just do it on site by hand and not risk having made any mistake...

...house, we plan to travel for about 4 to 5 months of the year (mostly winter and few months in summer) mostly in USA & Canada. As we become older, we plan to live in the house for longer durations. Given this, what would be a sensible approach in building this house? Of course, we are interested in health/comfort, l...

...house if it were on a crawl space or basement? What I mean here relates to the part above the foundation; i.e. the main house and garage construction. 8) Are there any homeowners we can speak to, for references, for comparable projects? Ideally we wish to understand any issues that might arise during the planning, exec...

...houses. We don’t currently have plans we can offer unfortunately. There are Passive House and LEED certified prefab kit homes available that may meet your needs, other than that we would recommend you look through our building guide pages to learn high performance building techniques. An ‘Eco Home’ could take many diff...

...Passive House performance with you home then you may want to look into such a kit, below is an image of a Passive House slab under construction with 14 inches of seamless insulation on the exterior and 12 inches below the slab. Note where the doorway is in the front of the image - that is a wood fiber / cement product ...

...passive heat gain, so you want the highest R-value windows possible to reduce heat loss.  And remember that maximising your southern exposure for passive heat gain needs to include a passive cooling strategy such as overhangs or sun shades to prevent overheating in summer or you'll be spinning your wheels and spending ...

...Passive House performance levels (though we didn’t go for Passive House certification, it's actually a LEED Platinum house), but it helped get our air leakage rate to about 0.6 ACH (here is our air barrier installation video). As for ideal window placement within a wall assembly, if you are looking for the best perform...

...Passive House, you can for sure trim that down. In some areas, achieving Passive House Certification allows you to bypass normal building codes, so your location is very important, where are you building?  And you may not know this but there are different Passive House programs, or rather different certifying bodies, l...

...House, but for a general opinion of whether or not it was worth it, I would say no, not really. That house wasn't about finding the proper balance of insulation, it was more an excercise in resilient home design and extreme passive heating.  The house is certified LEED Platinum but also meets Passive House levels of pe...

...house to passive house standards and keep it to a relatively small budget by potentially doing some of the build myself. I stumbled upon the history of ICFs and Gigacrete while researching building materials, but haven't seen a lot of passive houses built with these type of insulating materials. Is there a reason why? ...

...passive house standards. I'm finding this aspect the hardest. Any suggestions or referrals would be greatly appreciated. The fiberglass and passive house windows and doors tend to be very modern and linear and take away from the rustic traditional feel I'm going for. My want was the ancestral balcony doors from Martin ...

...Passive House, you just need to be sure to provide makeup air to avoid depressurizing the home. This page here covers all you need to know - How to install wood burning stoves and fireplaces in airtight homes such as Passive House And yes, you are correct that the chimney section that passes through the roof will const...

...houses for sale and in your case the S1600,  you will see a tab to request a quote. I know that demand is pretty high at the moment, how soon were you looking to build?    

...Passive home design.I'm  excited about having a passive house with low heating cost. ATWHP with hyrdonic heating and DWP is something we hope to have. Just curious about heating in cold weather. Can you give us a more specific question?  And if you're looking for a Realtor with experience in high-performance homes for ...

...houses are available in Washington  and California? If so, when are you building?  We hope to be able to provide high performance modular prefab kit houses to in the Western US states in the near future. 

...house but it's a passive home done with Larsen Truss. I used closed web I-joist( made from 2x3 and osb). Can I mount to this without worry? Thanks Whether or not Larsen trusses are strong enough on their own to carry weight without sagging depends on how they are fastened and if they are resting on anything solid. Here...