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We started this to write about high-performance building, Cool projects worth looking at and honest cases for why it makes no sense to build any other way. We'll get into the obstacles too, because there are plenty. Every so often we'll share ways to make the work more efficient, and now and then we'll wander into the software side of things, since that's part of how we got here. Mostly it's just the stuff we find worth thinking about.
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High Performance, Unpacked
Passive House Works Best
When the Building Does the Heavy Lifting
That is the real promise, and it is what makes this approach so compelling from a builder’s point of view. The most successful Passive House homes are not dependent on larger equipment trying to compensate for a weak shell.
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How Custom Homes Turn Performance Standards
Into Architecture
Passive House gets misunderstood a lot, and the biggest misconception is that it is a style. It is not. It is not a box, not a prefab look, and not a fixed vocabulary of details that every house must repeat.
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What Passive House Gets Right
When the Weather Turns Hot
When most people think about Passive House, they think about winter. Tight envelope, low heating bills, no drafts, warm feet in January. Fair enough. But the real test of a high-performance building is not whether it feels good in a snowstorm. It is whether it stays calm when the weather turns hot, the sun is beating on the glass, and the nights never quite cool down.
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