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Chicago Land's First Passive House
The Lema Family super-efficient, durable house in suburban River Forest is the first certified passive house in the Chicago area.
The Hottest Thing in Housing: Matrix Energy
Susan Guthridge-Gould and her husband Chris Gould build a house that stayed true to the land in Stuyvesant, New York
2012 EcoHome Design Awards picks many Passive House projects to receive their accolades this year!
Another sign that implementing the Passive House Standard is becoming a popular, heads up choice by the educated consumer.
The Prius Effect: Green Home Labels Add Significant Value, New Study Shows
The research presented in this article and accompanying report shows the added value to real estate that Green Home Labels like Passive House Certification especially PHIUS+ brings to a project.
A Snapshot of a PHIUS+ Certification for Passive House Projects
There are four big benefits to the PHIUS+ program that we think make the program a “win-win-win” for project teams, building owners and PHIUS, and we want to spread the word…
PH Going Mainstream!: "Oprah Meet Passive House, PH meet Oprah"
Perhaps the only true test that something is going mainstream, Passive House is discussed in this month's issue of Oprah Magazine, with a quote from PHIUS Executive Director - Katrin Klingenberg.
Can We Build in a Brighter Shade of Green?
A so-called passive home like the one the Landaus are now building is so purposefully designed and built — from its orientation toward the sun and superthick insulation to its algorithmic design and virtually unbroken air envelope — that it requires minimal heating, even in chilly New England.
Passive House Institute US
The folks who brought the Passive House Standard to the United States and who's founders built the first building to get certification here.
The Hudson Passive House Project
Dennis Wedlick Architect's Website for this new single family residence project.
A local company is building a house you can heat with a blow-dryer.
“These aren’t your gramma’s storm windows.” Bjorn Nelson holds up a wicked-looking window casing. Sourced from Germany, it features triple thermal glass panes, three rubber gaskets, six insulating air chambers and a protective Plexiglas laminate. It looks like it came off a space shuttle, but it’s headed for a single-family home in Hood River.
New Certification Will Help Bring Passive House to the Mainstream
Passive House Institute teams with RESNET to offer energy-based rating. This effort will assist owner's who implement the Passive House Standard to comply with current and future governmental energy efficiency incentive programs.
Home building team shoots for 3 green standards
PHA-US President Sam Hagerman’s Passive House Project
First Green, Passive House in New York State Constructed in Claverack (Columbia County), NY
An architect committed to sustainable living designs an extremely green home that almost
heats itself.
An Introduction to the Passive House Standard
A great primer on introducing one to the history, techniques, concepts and benefits of implementing the Passive House Building Energy Standard. Requested of Interim Executive Director-Mark A. Miller for the magazine of the Association of Licensed Architects (ALA)
First US Passive House School
PHA-US member Adam Cohen's project. The Center for Energy Efficient Design (CEED) in Franklin County VA, is the first public school in the United States designed to the Passive House building performance standard.
Green Without Gizmos
Passive House is a performance-based building standard that can result in a house that consumes as little as 10% of the total heating and cooling energy used by a house built to the 2006 building code. If you’re an architect or builder, imagine the reaction you’ll get from clients when you tell them that you can either build a house that uses energy by the dollar or one that uses it by the dime.
Heating your home with a hair dryer?
Europe’s Passivhaus movement catches on in Portland area. Article from the Portland Tribune.
Passive House, Aggressive Conservation
The South's first house certified to the rigorous conservation standard adapts a model proven in Germany to steamy Louisiana.
New York Times - Snug and Tight
Passive houses are airtight buildings that use heat from appliances and even the occupants' bodies for warmth. They have thick insulation, are oriented to maximize winter sun and use a heat exchanger to warm outside air that circulates throughout. The result is a house that needs little or no extra energy for heating, even in very cold climates. While they are increasingly popular in Germany and Scandinavia, passive houses have yet to make inroads in the United States. Here is one approach.
Hannover- Kronsberg: Construction and Measurement Results:
By Cost Efficient Passive Houses as European Standards (CEPHEUS)
Within the EU-funded project PEP (Promotion of European Passive Houses) two detailed reports on the Passive Houses in Hannover-Kronsberg are translated into English. They give a detailed description of the building construction and of the results of the monitoring phase.
FINAL REPORT: EU FUNDED PASSIVE HOUSE STUDY
By Cost Efficient Passive Houses as European Standards (CEPHEUS)
The paper first gives an overview of the Passive House principle.
Afterwards, detailed measurements for the performance of 11 passive
house projects within the EU-funded demonstration project CEPHEUS are
presented.
