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

...passive solar gain. This results in significant energy savings for this model of home over winter. At the same time, to prevent overheating in summer from this vast expanse of glass, and to protect the walls from rainfall, the passive house standard triple-glazed windows are complimented by carefully calculated roof ov...

...Passive House and LEED ready, meaning that when other prerequisite conditions are met, the energy performance of the building envelope meets the stringent requirements needed to achieve LEED V4 Platinum or Passive House certification. This also means it could also be specified as one of our Net Zero Energy ready prefab...

...Passive House and Zero Net Energy ready kit homes sector in Quebec, Ontario and North Eastern US States such as New York, Vermont, Maine or New Hampshire. What is driving building professionals to prefab & modular construction methods? Trends in the construction industry, such as shorter project schedules, sustaina...

...house construction has to be scalable and not stray too far too quickly from the current norms that builders are familiar with.  What are Net Zero Energy homes? In a nut shell, a Net Zero Energy House is one that produces as much energy as it consumes. It starts with an energy efficient building envelope, high-quality ...

...Passive House from Austria was assembled in Whistler for the Olympic Games, however, the Rainbow Duplex designed by Marken Projects marks the first Passive House to be solely constructed in B.C. using primarily local products. Rainbow Duplex Passive House Whistler BC Interior Design, © Marken Projects Using up to 90%...

...Passive House ready prefab kit home, see many more sustainable home building tips & guide videos for LEED, Zero Energy & Passive House on the Ecohome YouTube channel here Super-insulated wall assembly, in kit form The prefab high-performance walls of this Passive House & LEED ready home kit are made almost ...

...Passive House construction: We recently visited John Hodges in Perth, Ontario, Canada, where he is building two homes; one for himself and his wife and, right next door, one for his daughter’s family. One house will be Passive House Certified, the other will be a ‘Nearly Passive House’ or ‘Almost Passive House’ as buil...

...houses. The new Washington tiny house legislation: The new Washington regulation ESSB 5383 supports the development and adoption of tiny homes in many ways: The new law specifically Defines tiny houses for the first time as follows:  “Tiny houses” and “Tiny houses with wheels” are to be considered in the state of WA ...

...passive and active energy Passive solar heating refers to designing a home to collect heat from the sun. Passive cooling means providing natural shading to cool a home (such as deciduous trees, awnings or sun shades). Passive heating and cooling using diagram © EcoHome   As the word 'passive' indicates, there is vir...

...house, the heat is diverted to an air/water heat exchanger for heating the hot water tank instead. What this adds up to is Energy savings; ideal for Passive solar homes, ZNE, PNE, LEED and Passive House projects. Over the last few years, with everything that's been going on, production and installation of a satisfactor...

...Houses that at first had ratings of 2 air changes per hour (ACH) were brought to as low as 0.39, exceeding Passive House requirements, which are 0.6 ACH.” We tested Aerobarrier ourselves:  Ecohome’s French counterpart Écohabitation enlisted the help of Aerobarrier before moving into a new office space, where a blower d...