Passive heat gain / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...Passive House Institute) and PHIUS (Passive House Institute US) and for Canada there is Passive House Canada and the Canadian Passive House Institute. This guide aims to describe the origins of Passive House certification, which can be accredited to a very futuristic Passive Solar heating design home built in the 1970'...

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...heating systems such as standard electric furnaces, baseboard heaters, boilers, or air-source heat pumps, heating capacity is entirely lost when the utility grid goes down. Even standard gas or oil furnaces require electricity to run their electronic ignitions, control boards, and distribution blowers. Most standard pe...

...heat (called solar heat gain coefficient, SHGC), whereas windows facing all other directions have a low SHGC. The difference between them is that the high-gain windows allow in approximately 50% of the sun's heat, whereas the low-SHGC windows let in only about 30%. This off grid home interior: Main floor great r...

...heat.  We had our zone system designed by our sponsor Uponor which ensured that the heat would be balanced as best as possible.  9: The final floor will be a polished concrete, which is completely non-toxic and very durable. The production of concrete is a heavy polluter, releasing one ton of GHGs (greenhouse gases) pe...