Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker walks into the back of the Conservatory Apartments in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood on Aug. 2, 2023. The ...

Built on the footprint of a drafty 1930s cottage, this DOE Award-winning passive house in New York generates more energy than it consumes, cuts heating and cooling costs by 90%, and diverted 75% of ...

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Engineer Natalie Leonard founded Passive Design Solutions in Nova Scotia to build energy-efficient houses, mostly certified to the Passive House US (PHIUS) standard. However, many prospective clients ...

The passive-house building standard relies on lots of insulation and intentional design to use as little energy as possible for heating and cooling. If your home is super energy efficient and it has ...

It’s official: passive house design standards are coming to Massachusetts. The lessons learned in the Northeast can help design energy-efficient, multifamily buildings elsewhere too. The Commonwealth ...

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It’s a hot August day on a busy street in suburban Connecticut. In the sunlit living room of a spacious house, it’s quiet, bright and cool – even in the absence of air conditioning. “We use up to 90 ...