http://bldgsim.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/guido-wimmers-on-passivhaus-design/
Having attended the passivehouse.us conference in 2007, I have been trying to make all my projects close to the passive house standard, roughly 10 times more energy efficient than a building in this country. This last 10% is easily met with renewables, photovoltaics, solar hot water or geothermal. Constant fresh, filtered air is brought to temperature by an energy recovery ventilation system - etc.
This is how my house will be built this year, when i remodel my 110 year old stone building to meet passive house standards here in boulder.
www.fuentesdesign.comSanyo double hit panels get 20% more power and save some coin on roofing:
www.fuentesdesign.comThis was on ecoshock radio:
http://www.ecoshock.org/eshock08.html
