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

Passive solar house design
Passive solar home design

Passive solar home design

...passivesolarhouse is simply one that has been designed to take advantage of that.Passivesolarheating is yet another green building design feature that will save you money while improving your quality of life, EcoHome even have a design and rating system designed around it called ThePassiveSolarIndex - check i...

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 withpassivesolardesign basics, 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...

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

...solarheat collection and retention with modern building techniques all the way back in 1977. 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-breaking design principle tha...

Passive solar heating & cooling in Homes has a long history in USA
Passive solar home design

Passive house and passive solar - free heat for homes

...solarcollection in home design - 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...

Solar Radiant Heated Floor Slab Kit
Delivery: radiant, forced-air and decentralized

Solar heated radiant floor with radiant heated hot water for a site with problem soil - expansive clay

...PassiveSolarHomes , ZNE, PNE, LEED &Passive房子的项目。If you are interested in getting a quote for a Legalett air heated slab floor forming system, see here .PassiveSolarradiant air-heated floor slab on grade form kit ductwork © Ecohome Generatingsolardomestic hot water when heating is not requ...

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

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

...PassiveSolarIndex (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 performance design and technology, called "The Most Resilient House in North America" by Alex Wilson, founder of the Resilient Design Institute. The PSI pr...

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Case Study: Kenogami House, Saguenay, Quebec

...PassiveSolar登记日期:2015年2月12日地区:魁北克萨格内建造类型:独栋新住宅PSI评级:15 kWh / m²计算方法:由业主Alain Hamel建造,Kenogami住宅位于魁北克萨格内Lac Kenogami,是绿色建筑的赢家。

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

...passivesolardesign done much more recently, that has distilled out some of the best design principles to take advantage of that free energy source, the sun. I also discovered thePassiveHouse movement coming out of Europe, which looks to drastically reduce overall energy use through such things as super-insulation a...

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

...solariums: Somesolariums are bought as kits and used exclusively as living space , others are used for growing vegetables and even fruit. Strictly speaking, asolarium is not a greenhouse, but can be used as such. The typicalsolarium is usually a glazed space adjacent to a dwelling, separated by an exterior wall ...

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 then designed asolarfurnace consisting of about 17.9 m2 or 193 sq. ft. of vacuum tubesolarcollectors and a 12,700 litre or 3,355 US gallon storage tank insulated to about R100, with appropriate pumps and heat exchangers to supply heat to the house and provide domesti...

Passive House certification - PHI or PHIUS? The Spring House Passive House
Passive House

Everything you need to know about Passive House certification

...PassiveHouse Institute) and PHIUS (PassiveHouse Institute US) and for Canada there isPassiveHouse Canada and the CanadianPassiveHouse Institute . This guide aims to describe the origins ofPassiveHouse certification , which can be accredited to a very futuristicPassiveSolarheating design home built in the 197...