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

...house Group website are that a building must - “during its lifetime produce more renewable energy than it uses for materials, production, operation, renovation, and demolition.” In short, a certified Powerhouse stands out from a Passive House or Net Zero home for example, by offsetting the energy costs of operation AND...

...Passive is better than active. Moving parts fail.  We attribute these three conclusions to Rob Dumont, one of the designers of the Saskatchewan Conservation House built in the 1970s that inspired the original German Passivhaus / Passive House trend. Those were his words when asked to reflect on the home design he was p...

...house to build, there are just a handful of Passive Houses in Canada, where winter doesn’t appear to be a passing trend. The living and dining area of Ann Cavlovic's Passivhaus House © Mark Rosen. These were the kinds of facts I used to recite when people looked at me quizzically; the term “Passive House...

...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 House design to reach certification Green home rating systems - are they worth it and which is best? See the Kenogami House with its house of the year award for 'Most Resilient Design'   Learn about the benefits of a free Ecohome Network Membership here and save money on select building materials!

...house that uses next to no energy. Passive House framing details © Construction Rocket Inc. PHI vs. PHIUS Passive House certification PHI (Germany’s Passive House Institute) and PHIUS (Passive House Institute U.S.) have the same goals at heart, namely creating buildings that achieve a certain energy performance stand...

...house are much the same as those of a truly comfortable house - high R-value building envelope, no thermal bridging, sealed against air leaks, triple-paned windows, humidity control and properly designed heating, cooling and ventilation equipment, to name a few.   Thermal comfort = efficiency and durability: The less ...

...Passive House Certified tradespersons and will work with all new Passive House projects as of March 1st 2017. The city is also providing space in city meeting rooms for public Passive House training courses. Regulatory changes to remove barriers To facilitate Passive House builds and the additional requirements they ha...

...Passive House and LEED are a great start, but some other programs that may be on the fringe at the moment like Powerhouse Positive Energy Buildings, Living Building Challenge (LBC) rating or Net Zero Energy or ZNE labelled homes are the future for efficient & resilient construction.  Increased durability and perfor...

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...house down to a single number, many efficiency experts use the HERS rating. This is an evaluation of how much energy the modeled house uses as compared to a house that just meets the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code. Climate and house size are controlled so as to be better about comparing apples to apples. A...