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

...passive heating, preventing unwanted heating in summer is equally, if not more, important to prevent overheating and reduce cooling costs. This guide will provide a comprehensive look at both exterior and interior window shading strategies, from landscaping to high-tech window treatments, ensuring your home remains com...

...heating systems There are three high-efficiency top-up heating systems in this LEED, Passive House & Zero Energy Ready rated kit house, because as much as this high performance home is designed using Passive Solar design principles. There are always periods of the year in cold northern US States like New York, Verm...

...passive solar house  appropriate for the local climate. The result was the world's first Passivhaus - The Saskatchewan Conservation House, which not only incorporated passive heating from the sun, but also many of the elements that make up the current Passive House standard: careful sealing with tape for air-tightness,...

...passive heating and sunlit living space in solariums: Comfort, durability and energy efficiency are best achieved if passive heating strategies are designed as an integrated part of the building envelope. This is best served by choosing high-performance windows that would ideally be triple-paned. Additionally, includin...

...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'...

...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 56 and a transit score of 58.   Stra...

...passive solar orientation. The three-metre deep cantilevered roof provides shade in the summer, and allows the low winter sun to warm the concrete floors in the cold season. Other complementary strategies include a continuously insulated building envelope, with high performance low-e double-glazing and heat recovery ve...

...Passive House certification. (ASHRAE: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) The first certified Passive House was completed in early 2016 and boasts heating bills of less than $20 per month for a family of four in the middle of the winter. See all about Passive House Standards here,...

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...heating needed for this home is accomplished by sun streaming in the windows. I've taken just enough of a look at the passive solar heating literature to know that this is roughly as high as one should go with passive solar heating in a home unless one is willing to endure unwelcome overheating on warm sunny days in th...

...heating system was built In 1939 on the MIT campus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and sat on top of a huge water reservoir that was heated by thermal solar panels. MIT Solar House thermal battery via Wikimedia What are phase change thermal batteries? Taking advantage of a 'phase change' raises the bar a bit...