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 ...

Following a slew of national natural disasters—most recently the Southern California wildfires and the historic winter storm that hit Southern states—interest in durable and sustainable architectural ...

Explores how far Passive House and net‑zero principles can be scaled for larger buildings. Visits Hotel Marcel, the first net‑zero energy hotel in the United States pursuing Passive House ...

© Juraj MikurcikJuraj has been working on his house for years, and moved in last July. As a low energy, super-insulated Passive House design, it doesn’t have much ...

It’s the first to be certified as a Passive House. Architect Jessica Deem of Virescent Architecture + Design says the ...

The home, built in 2021, relies on strict sustainability and “clean” principles meant to be better for the owners and the ...

Today's architects have a lot of considerations to juggle when drawing up new homes, from the aesthetics to the functionality to the environmental footprint. Those placing a priority on the latter ...

The GO Logic Home designed by architect Matthew O'Malia is a Passive House built with Structural Insulated panels and a timber frame People in the United States as well as many around the world are ...

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 ...

While sometimes controversial, passive house design techniques have become a standard reference point for some small-scale projects. A new publication by Low Carbon Production from New York titled ...

Boston developers are turning to a small-scale building standard for sky-high projects in an effort to cut energy costs and build more sustainably. The Passive House building standard aims for ...