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Passive House For Office Buildings
Most people have been inside an office building that was frigid in the summer and sweltering in the winter. Or in one that was just a sea of dark cubicles. Or even one that felt musty and stale. Most people have more than once struggled to maintain energy levels throughout the work day. One wonders…
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Passive House For Retail
Retail spaces come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, and each shop has its own specific needs. Passive House has been used on everything from grocery markets to boutiques to car dealerships and has succeeded in providing a happier, healthier place to work and shop with impressive energy cost savings at the same time. Below…
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Passive House For Multi-Family
Passive House is rapidly gaining in popularity as an option when building multi-family dwellings. This category can encompass apartment buildings, condos, townhouses, and even dormitories. The enthusiasm around Passive House resonates with developers, architects, and occupants alike and the reasons why are manifold. First, the common expectation about creating a Passive House building is that it…
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The Real Cost of Passive House For Your Clients
If a client comes to you looking to build a high performance home, they probably already know the cost will be somewhat higher than building a conventional home. They may also know they will earn some of that back in energy cost savings. What they may not know is the true overall cost of the…
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Why Passive House Is the Path to Greener Buildings
The virtues of green buildings are well documented: they provide greater comfort and health benefits than conventional houses and they provide dramatic cost savings from energy and water efficiency, among other features. While the benefits of building green are clear, the path to achieve those benefits may seem less straightforward. The varieties of green buildings…
Case Studies
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A Community Rebuilds What It Lost: How the North End Imagined—and Claimed—Its Next Public Home
When the doors to the Ocie Hill Center finally closed in 2020, the North End didn’t just lose a building. It lost a gathering place, a workout space, an after-school hub, a site for social services, a gym, a place where little kids learned to read and teenagers learned to play basketball. The city-owned building…