Passive design / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...passive design principles. By focusing on your home's exterior envelope and surrounding landscape, you can significantly reduce heat absorption, lower your energy bills, and create a more comfortable environment with little to no active energy use. Cool roofs  A cool roof is one that is designed to reflect more sunligh...

...design.” A certified Passive House designer doesn’t necessarily know much about aesthetics. It should ideally be an iterative process, a tango between an architect and a Passive House designer. But many early European projects were only “designed” by Passive House designers, who are often engineers, not designers in th...

...designing the home we applied the principles of passive solar design, increased insulation, airtight construction techniques, highly efficient mechanical systems and photovoltaic power generation. These systems and design features work together to achieve an EnerGuide rating of 100. The home also boasts a Walk Score of...

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...design and construction of an off-grid LEED Gold passively-heated home. See post 1 of the off-grid homes blog her, the overview . or post 2 in the off-grid homes blog here covering design and construction choices.  For better or worse, the property that my wife and I fell in love with was over a mile back down a privat...

...design of Ecohome’s Edelweiss House demonstration home - passive heating and cooling, healthy living space, affordable to build and operate, resilient and flexible design.  The underlying goal of the Edelweiss House was to design and build a modestly-sized but functional home that would greatly outperform conventional...

...Passive House Design Plans, the original Passive House looks like this on the design Second you can use rigid foam insulation on the exterior of the wall. The problem is that foam insulations are 5 to 15 times more expensive per Rvalue than the mineral fibre insulations that are used in walls. So the wall becomes ...

...Passive House movement, read more about Passive House construction and efficient home building in general on the pages below and in our Green Building Guide  Conservation House designer Harold Orr reflects on the house design that started a global movement  How to get a home Passive House Certified Resilient ho...

...passive solar design and the Passive House rating system Find more pages about sustainable and resilient green building on the pages below and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages:  A homeowners account of how to achieve Passive House certification  All about passive solar home design here How to design a ho...

...passive solar house is simply one that has been designed to take advantage of that. Passive solar heating is yet another green building design feature that will save you money while improving your quality of life, EcoHome even have a design and rating system designed around it called The Passive Solar Index - check it ...