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

...house where there will be footings. Depths, widths and backfill specifications will be provided by engineers. See our page on raft slabs as an alternative to a thickened edge slab on grade foundation.  Notes for excavating a Slab on Grade foundation: 1) When beginning with a rubble trench for the load bearing part of ...

...house we set out several goals: To build a certifiable Passive House To build the best house possible and use it to demonstrate the benefits of Passive House to Atlantic Canada To heat the house only through post-heating of the HRV fresh air To build the most airtight structure possible To use as many local, sustainab...

...house in North America The first house designed under our Passive Solar Index (PSI) program won "Most Resilient House" in the 2013 Green Builder® Home of the Year Awards. The Kenogami House is a living laboratory of high performance design and technology, called "The Most Resilient House in North America" by Alex Wilso...

...House appropriate for Saskatchewan. The world's first Passive House, the Conservation House Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Conservation House 1 You must remember that R7 with double glass was considered well insulated at this time. When we were discussing amounts of insulation, R20 was suggested for the walls. Th...

...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...

...house is to either save money, save energy, or both. If the construction of that house requires a significantly larger investment of money and embodied energy, then despite your best intentions you could really be no further ahead than if you stuck to conventional building standards. In the design of our building envel...

...Passive House standards, but Passive House Certification is mandatory to call a home "Passive House Certified." Allow us to explain...  What are the problems of Passive House in North America? The original Passive House certification program originates in Germany and is referred to as PHI - and the parameters of that p...

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...Passive House: Modeled after the German Passivhaus standard, this certification program deals specifically with home design for passive solar gain, and reducing energy consumption. A certified Passive House is significantly more energy efficient than a conventionally built home. This rating system is pretty much limite...

...house. According to NASA, every day the sun provides the earth with 10,000 times the total energy consumed by humans. A 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 qua...