Passive house construction — super-insulated energy efficient design — is catching on in Maine, but passive house retrofit of historic buildings hasn’t. Yet, with a surplus of historic buildings that ...

Retrofitting an old house into a Passive House is a challenging feat to say the least, but when done right, it can be amazing. When Bo and Itzy decided to turn their old Victorian home in Brooklyn ...

Ken Soble Tower, an affordable housing high-rise for seniors in Hamilton, Ont., is now arguably the world’s largest residential building retrofitted to the Passive House standard. Led by ERA ...

The idea of retrofitting is certainly nothing new, especially for historic buildings. But the Yannell PHIUS+ House project is turning a home built in the 1890s into a Passive House complete with ...

Given the slow pace of investment and deployments in renewable energy technologies, there has been a heightened emphasis in recent months on building efficiency—and the need to accelerate projects of ...

It began on a cross-country flight a couple of years ago. Rooting around in her carry-on, stockbroker and hedge fund trader Cathy O'Neill with dismay found herself with only one book in her briefcase ...

A passive solar house is typically designed from scratch factoring in several considerations to boost the structure’s ability to naturally keep the interior living spaces a comfortable air temperature ...

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES, June 16, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- New England Design And Construction (NEDC) is a leading architectural design build creative ...