Mar 3, 2021 | Architect Resources, Green Building, Passive House
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...
Feb 16, 2021 | Architect Resources, Green Building, Passive House
Environmentally-conscious clients who are looking to build a home have many options. On one end of the spectrum is a conventional home with some energy efficient appliances. On the other end is the Living Building Challenge, for which a building must prove to be...
Feb 3, 2021 | Green Building, Passive House, Understanding Architecture
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,...
Jan 2, 2021 | Passive House
When you’re building a new home, you’ll probably consider making it energy efficient. And for good reason. For one, energy efficiency leads to lower utility bills. But there are even more benefits than that. It also shrinks your carbon footprint by making you much...
Dec 31, 2020 | Passive House, Understanding Architecture
The Passive House standard is a design model for high performance homes that focuses on the comfort of the occupants and the energy efficiency of the building. Passive House may be exactly the kind of resilient architecture your ecologically-minded clients are hoping...
Nov 22, 2020 | Passive House, Understanding Architecture
At FiELD9: architecture we take an envelope first approach to green architecture. As such, we focus on the Passive House standard as our preferred approach to design. In our previous entry regarding architectural standards & frameworks, we briefly discussed the...
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