The Passive House movement is growing and a new Passive House is being built in Palo Alto..... Passive House designs are ultra-energy-efficient homes with extremely tight energy performance characteristics. The Project Green Home Blog gives the details of one family's process in building their Passive House, and includes interesting details on the choices they made, such as Selecting High Efficiency Windows. The unique features of their home are detailed here.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
The Minnie House: It Starts Here...
The building of the Minnie House is a great blog to follow. Steve is building a Rocio Romero LV Home in Pacifica. It's really great that he is blogging about the whole process including the costs of building a modern home in the bay area.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Palo Alto Mitchell Park Library Green Building Elements
Palo Alto is building a fabulous green, modern library in Mitchell Park:
http://palf.org/libraries/mitchellpark/
It has some wonderful ideas incorporated in it to reduce water usage and energy usage and is aiming for LEED Gold certification.
Slideshare presentation here:
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