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"Passive house"

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

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Built to ENDURE: the Net Zero Heat Kenogami House
Efficient home design

The Kenogami House: designed to ENDURE

...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...

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Passive House on a Budget - The Damn Near Passive house
Passive House

The Un-certified but 'Damn Near' Passive House.

...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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Bike lanes in Vancouver
Lifestyle, location and commuting

Vancouver's goal of becoming the Greenest City by 2020

...houses & Vancouver laneway homes  See architect designed prefab tiny houses for sale Have an ADU backyard office delivered on a truck! Vancouver is giving incentives to build laneway houses and rental properties, now is the time to build secondary apartments Are shipping container tiny homes good or bad? ...

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Passively-heated off-grid LEED Gold home
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off-grid living blog part 6 - energy modeling projections and real performance

...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...

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Balanced insulation levels in a green home
Efficient home design

Insulation in green home building, a balanced approach to putting it where it does the most good

...house may be about the same at first, but would be much cheaper once your mortgage is paid.  There is a tendency to beef up the insulation of a building envelope somewhat randomly, and in an unbalanced way. While it is true that the more insulation you put in any area will slow heat loss in that spot, the question rem...

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Multi-unit Passive House for Heiltsuk First Nation on Campbell Island,
Passive House

Multi-unit Passive House for Heiltsuk First Nation in British Columbia

...Passive House construction and efficient home building in general on the pages below and in our Green Building Guide See British Columbia's first Passive House project All you need to know about Passive House Certification Resilient home design: future-proof building for a changing climate See the most resilien...

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Passively-heated off-grid LEED house in Low, Quebec
Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Off-grid living blog: a firsthand account of building and living in a remote area

...house with the shoreline. We have a screened view of the water, which actually makes those glimpses out onto the bay more special. Building envelope: When first considering how much insulation to put into the house, I looked to the Passive House certification system. To achieve Passive House certification, there is a h...

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Radiant floor heat in a bathroom
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

DIY radiant floor tubing installation video

...Passive House community as to whether or not you can add enough insulation below a concrete floor to eliminate the need for heating it. We have been on the fence about this and leaned to both sides at different times, but it seems we have now fallen off the fence, and landed on a warm floor. Read more here about radian...

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DIY cork flooring pros, cons & installation guide with video
Flooring and stairs

Cork flooring installation - the eco-friendly flooring choice, with "how to" video

...house, the LEED V4 Platinum Wakefield House with solar air heated floors. And For more DIY Green Home Building Videos suscribe to our YouTube channel to see the the Edelweiss House being built from the ground up. Cork flooring installation guide: Now that you know all about cork flooring Installation, check the Ecohom...

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Canada's first LEED V4 Platinum certified home - The Edelweiss House
LEED Homes

Canada's first LEED V4 Platinum house - An Ecohome project checklist

...Passive House?  Ecohome also decided for LEED certification instead of Passive House certification because even though the Edelweiss House’s energy consumption for heat and its level of airtightness are at or near the required levels. “We met the Passive House heat requirement and had virtually the same on air changes....

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Leed platinum plaque
Green building certifications

All about green home certification programs and rating systems for USA & Canada

...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...

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