The O'Neill Passive House Retrofit Project by Solar Knights Construction is the first passive house certified in California and the first retrofit passive house in the...
Last Friday, Midmorning featured a story about Dr. Gary Konkol's house near Hudson, Wis., which was built to the German "Passive House" standard of energy...
The South Gets its First Certified Passive House (Beats California to the Punch) Images: Green Building Advisor Born in Boston and living in Nashville, I’m continually struck by the fact that Southerners expect air conditioning...
The considerable shift within the Irish construction industry towards energy efficient building design is being acknowledged by a newly launched awards scheme, details of which were announced...
2010-07-19 The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky., Tom Eblen column: QandA with solar-energy pioneer Richard Levine
New technology can be a game-changer. It is how automobiles replaced horses, computers replaced typewriters, compact discs replaced phonograph records and MP3 players replaced compact...
2010-07-16 Building a house that heats, powers itself
Hudson, Wis. — Nearly one-fourth of the energy used in the U.S. is used in our homes. Gary Konkol is building a house that will produce practically all the heat and power it...
For what is believed to be the first time in the southern U.S., “peel and stick” solar laminates have helped a new house achieve official Passive House certification , meaning that the structure is designed to use 90% less energy...
2010-07-13 Whirlwind Solar, a
Whirlwind Solar, a Division of Whirlwind Steel Buildings, Inc. a Houston, TX-based company announced today, in conjunction with Corey Saft, an Architecture Professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the first application...
2010-07-12 studio 804: the prescott passive house
the prescott passive house by studio 804 all images courtesy studio 804 the prescott passive house by studio 804 is the product of eight months of research, experimentation, design, and construction by the architecture studio s...
Denmark's first Passive+ house, which produces more energy than it consumes, is inaugurated by the energy and environment minister Lykke Friis The Minister for Climate and Energy, Lykke Friis, has officially inaugurated...
It seems that when Wales gains control of its own devolved Building Regulations, the energy efficiency and carbon cutting targets will be stricter than those operating across the rest of the...
Tessa English remembers childhood days sailing and swimming on Cape Cod's Pilgrim Lake next to the cozy cottage her parents had built in the 1950s. Over the years, the cottage in Orleans,...
2010-07-10 Architect wants to end nail-hammer cycle
Special to The Japan Times Miwa Mori, president of Key Architects, thinks a lot about nails, both as part of her profession and as her philosophy about...
, designed by Della Valle Bernheimer and Architecture Research Office, is a cozy looking home that meets Passive House standards for energy efficiency and serves as a model for sustainable and affordable residential...
passive house in bessancourt by karawitz architecture all images courtesy karawitz architecture french firm karawitz architecture have developed a passive house in bessancourt, near paris,...
The deal includes design, financing, building/refurbishing and operating two schools for the city of Offenbach, with a contract volume of around EUR...
A site that was once Europe’s largest steelworks is reclaimed by nature in Design Research Unit Wales’s innovative...
According to a report in the daily newspaper Märkische Allgemeine, Lower Austrian entrepreneur Johann Weichselbaum is the new owner of the factory formerly belonging to Kampa, the insolvent prefabricated house manufacturer in...
2010-07-07 Green - Collar Champion
At present, the notion of a green roof in Australia is more likely to conjure images of Colorbond metal roofing than plant-covered oases Some overseas cities where governments and industry have got behind the concept of planting...
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