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"Passive house"

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

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Suspended-film insulating glass windows are high-performance windows
Windows and doors

Suspended-film insulating glass windows - A definitive guide for these high-performance windows

...passive house performance windows when we built our experimental high-performance demonstration homes: like the LEED Platinum Kenogami House, the LEED V4 Platinum Edelweiss House, and the LEED Platinum solar air heated S-1600 Wakefield House. What are suspended-film insulating glass windows? What we personally have yet...

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Affordable green prefab homes - contemporary rancher style - Abri 1850 BV
Architecture and plan design

Prefab Homes for Sale - Beautiful & Sustainable - Available Now

...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...

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Affordable Modern Prefab Eco Homes Available - The S1600
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

The S1600 - affordable modern prefab eco homes for families

...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...

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Prefab & Modular Construction is Booming for Sustainable Homes
Planning and Design

Prefab & modular construction poised for dramatic growth in 2020

...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...

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Net Zero Energy Homes Pilot Canada
Green building certifications

Net zero energy homes Canadian pilot results

...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 ...

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Green building certifications

Powerhouse: the new standard for positive energy design

...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...

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Ecohome's Kenogami House 'The Most Resilient Home in North America'
Concept and design

Resilient design features for new home construction

...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...

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Passive House in Quebec
Passive House

The Passive-aggressive house - our history of a Passivhaus build

...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...

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Passive House certification - PHI or PHIUS? The Spring House Passive House
Passive House

Everything you need to know about Passive House certification

...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'...

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Lockeport Beach House
Architecture and plan design

Lockeport Beach House wins Canadian Green Building award

...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!

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Building a Passive House that's LEED Certified too - an Owner's Tale
Passive House

An owner/builder's account of building a Passive House

...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...

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