Passive house / Discussions

I have lakefront property and I was thinking of a prefab home.  Modern.  What should I be asking and what are the pitfalls?  I love this one: L’Abri 1850-BV But customer service is not responsive and that worries me..... Sorry that you didn’t hear back from the manufacturer, I know they have been swamped with requests....

...passive home in Gore Quebec and are looking for a builder to guide us through our best options for prefab materials / kits. All of the prefab eco-friendly modular kit houses in our Kit home pages are available in Quebec, Ontario and Northern States such as New York State, New Hampshire Vermont and Maine. You can see al...

...house is a prefab kit house seated on a solar air heated floor with a polished concrete slab. High-performance prefab homes tend to be more affordable than site-built homes, and they are available in Ontario if you’re interested. you can see our Passive House and LEED ready prefab homes here, a few of which are oriente...

...Passive House wall, if your intention is to reduce your carbon footprint, starts with choosing materials with low-embodied energy.  Different insulation materials will have different R values per inch - which affects the energy required to operate a Passive House - but that doesn’t address the embodied carbon, meaning ...

...Passive House ready prefab kit houses, these are available in your area.   The LEED Platinum Kenogami house is an exceptional build and was our first demo house, but that and our second one (the Edelweiss House) are both site builds, but our more recent one (the Wakefield House) is a kit home, and we placed it on a sol...

...Passive House spec without it costing a dime extra overall" house next year in Northern Minnesota as we will then be fitting PV solar panels to bring it to zero net energy once we fully assessed the true energy requirements over a year or two. As the house location is off-grid in the North Woods area, it's not a case o...

...Passive House builders.  As for how to design the system, you are into the higher end of building efficiency here so if you have limited knowledge in this field I would highly recommend looking into designers or HVAC contractors experienced with such systems. Passive House certified designers would probably have a lot ...