Passive solar home design

A comprehensive overview of external and internal shading strategies for optimizing passive solar design and maintaining comfortable indoor temperatures year-round. Homes designed for passive heating and cooling offer noticeably lower utility bills, not to mention increased comfort and security during power outages…

This is the first in a series of videos on how to build passively-heated homes. WATCH MORE VIDEOs about passive solar home design and construction here This is the first in a series of videos on passive solar home construction, we begin with passive solar design basics, orienting the future house on the site to take…

The Kenogami House holds the highest LEED score achieved in Canada (106), meets Passive House performance of 15 kWh per square meter and won a Home of the Year Award from Green Builder Media. Along with its unprecedented achievements, the Kenogami House continues to act as a laboratory for resilient, cold climate…

With the help of the Ecohome design team, home builder Alain Hamel builds "The Most Resilient House in North America". The most resilient house in North America The first house designed under our Passive Solar Index (PSI) program won "Most Resilient House" in the 2013 Green Builder® Home of the Year Awards. The…

Harold Orr introduced us to some of the most essential components of durable and energy efficient homes. Here is a look back at the passive solar heated house he designed that revolutionized the housing industry. While developing pages on passive heating and cooling and writing about Passive House, we were in…

The Conservation House in Saskatchewan was built in 1977, and was a revolutionary building design that introduced passive heating and cooling to modern Passive House home building. Passive House design, how does it work? If you've ever sat in a car with black leather seats in the summer, particularly when wearing…

The basics on passive heating and cooling homes, as when building a green high performance & healthy home, free heat is a good start. What is passive solar heating and cooling? Passive heating and cooling of homes is not new . The above image is of Mesa Verde National Park, the Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in…

With a southern orientation and well placed windows, passive solar homes can potentially reduce heating requirements by an easy 25% without adding any cost by designing around a good Passive Solar Index score. Homes heated by the sun's free heat! Passive Solar Houses are aptly named because there are no wires…