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Passive solar house design
Passive solar home design

Passive solar home design

...passivesolarhouse is simply one that has beendesigned to take advantage of that.Passivesolarheating is yet another green buildingdesignfeature that will save you money while improving your quality of life, EcoHome even have adesignand rating systemdesigned around it called ThePassiveSolarIndex - check i...

The birthplace of Passive House solar home design The Saskatchewan Conservation
Passive solar home design

Saskatchewan: The birthplace of Passive House and passive solar home design

...solar用现代建筑技术收集和保持热量可以追溯到1977年。SoPassiveHouse started in the 70's? Most people in the USA and Canada are only really starting to hear aboutPassiveSolarHomes andPassiveHouse homes now , so what happened to this ground-breakingdesign原则那…

Passive home designer Harold Orr, one of the original high performance homes
Passive solar home design

The principal designer of the house that inspired the global Passivhaus movement reflects on the project that started it all.

...solarenergy". Thesolarpeople on the committee thendesigned asolarfurnace consisting of about 17.9 m2 or 193 sq. ft. of vacuum tubesolar收集器和一个12700升或3355美国加仑的储罐,绝缘约R100,有适当的泵和热交换器,为住宅提供热量,并提供家庭…

Solariums in cold climates won't heat homes unless carefully designed and built
Greenhouses and Sunrooms / Solariums

Solariums in cold climates won't heat your home

...solarium has a more fragile roof and is in constant need of maintenance." Our recommendations for thepassiveheating and sunlit living space inSolariums: Comfort, durability and energy efficiency are best achieved ifpassiveheating strategies aredesigned as an integrated part of the building envelope. This is b...

Passive solar heating & cooling in Homes has a long history in USA
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Passive house and passive solar - free heat for homes

...solarcollection in homedesign- active andpassive. An activesolarhome has an expensive array of panels; either photovoltaic for power generation or thermalsolarfor heat collection. Both are complicated systems that will likely include some moving parts that will eventually, without fail.... fail.Passivesolar...

How to Build a Passive Solar Home with EcoHome, the Green Building Resource
Passive solar home design

Passive solar home construction

...passivesolarhome construction, we begin withpassivesolardesignbasics, orienting the future house on the site to take full advantage of the free heat available from the sun while keeping it cool with natural shading in the summer. See more aboutSolarBatteries, how to storepassivesolarheat ,PassiveHouse De...

Passive House certification - PHI or PHIUS? The Spring House Passive House
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Everything you need to know about Passive House certification

...PassiveHouse certification , which can be accredited to a very futuristicPassiveSolarheatingdesignhome built in the 1970's in Saskatchewan by a team led by Harold Orr,designer of the first modernPassiveHouse that worked , who recently won the Order of Canada for his achievements withPassiveSolardesign, air...

First Passive House in BC Whistler

B.C.’s First Passive House was built in Whistler in 2012.

...PassiveHouse Whistler BC InteriorDesign, © Marken Projects Using up to 90% less energy for heating, cooling and building operation than a standard house, the Rainbow Duplex was assembled in 4 ½ days using a prefabricated panelized system manufactured by BCPassiveHouse. A successfulpassivesolarhome is desig...

The passive solar home in Lac Kenogami, Quebec
Passive solar home design

Ecohome design wins House of the Year Award from Green Builder® Magazine

...designed under ourPassiveSolarIndex (PSI) program won "Most Resilient House" in the 2013 Green Builder® Home of the Year Awards. The Kenogami House is a living laboratory of high performancedesignand technology, called "The Most Resilient House in North America" by Alex Wilson, founder of the ResilientDesignInst...

Passive House in Quebec
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The Passive-Aggressive House - Our History of a Passivhaus Build

...design.” A certifiedPassiveHousedesigner doesn’t necessarily know much about aesthetics. It should ideally be an iterative process, a tango between an architect and aPassiveHousedesigner. But many early European projects were only “designed” byPassiveHousedesigners, who are often engineers, notdesigners in th...

Prefab LEED Passive House Kit Homes the Future of House Building?
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Prefab Passive House & LEED ready kit homes - the future of home building?

...PassiveHouse certification &Designs ,PassiveSolarheatingdesign, LEED certified homes & Zero Energy Homes all of which is accomodated in thedesignof the EcoHome prefab kit homes which incorporate the following. Triple-glazed windows (2x more efficient than ENERGY STAR® double glazing) A double layer of lo...