Tag: passive house
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The First Freeform 3D Printed House in the World Coming Soon
The architecture studio Wimberly, Allison, Tong & Goo (WATG) has drawn up the plans for what they believe will be the world’s first freeform 3D-printed house. The home is called Curve Appeal and it recently won Branch Technology’s Freeform Home Design Challenge. As a result, it will be printed soon. It will also boast of…
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Why North America Needs Its Own Passive House Standard
Prime: prime Subtitle: It’s not just about climate Images: There’s this thing called passive houseA residential building construction standard requiring very low levels of air leakage, very high levels of insulation, and windows with a very low U-factor. Developed in the early 1990s by Bo Adamson and Wolfgang Feist, the standard is now promoted by…
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From Superinsulation to Passive House, With a Trip Across the Pond
Prime: prime Subtitle: A bit of history and a look at where the Passive House movement stands in North America …
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Tiny Home Made From Hemp
Hemp is a very versatile material, great for making a whole bunch of useful products. The firm Green Built of Albany, NY have now decided to use hemp to build a tiny home, mainly to raise awareness of the benefits of this building material in the US where it is still rather unknown. They also…
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NYC to Get Its First Passive Apartment Building
New York City will soon get it’s first passive house apartment building. The development is called Perch Harlem and will be built in a way that uses 80-90 percent less energy than traditionally constructed buildings. It will be located in Hamilton Heights in Harlem. The company behind the construction is Perch Living, while the interiors…