About the Design

by Emile on June 3, 2010

We just added a new page in the top nav that describes the design of the home.

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Using THERM to understand thermal bridging

In a recent post, we talked about some of the tools we use in designing the passive house.  THERM is great for evaluating thermal bridges across assemblies of materials and visually comparing good and bad assemblies.
For example, below are two assemblies of the concrete footing, slab, and above grade wall.  One is “bad” in that [...]

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Tools used to design a Passive House

There are two primary tools used to provide performance feedback to a design team: Passive House Planning Package and Therm.  As a architecture and engineering firm, we also use architectural design tools, such as Autodesk Revit Architecture, but this post is focused specifically on the Passive House-related tools:
Passive House Planning Package
This is the energy modeling [...]

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What is Passive House?

We added a page that briefly describes the Passive House certification criteria.  Click here to view it

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Meet the Owners, Part II

In Part II of the Meet the Owners, we learn about what prompted their energy goals, what they like about Little Compton, and how they picked their design and buildteam:
Tell us about your energy goals and what is prompting them:
We are very excited about the plans for the home, the team we’re working with, and–as [...]

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Meet the owners, Part I

We asked the owners of the Little Compton house, Pierre Valette and Hilary Illick, to share a bit about themselves, their family and some background to the vision for their new home.  This the first of several posts that provides the introduction and impetus for the project:
Tell us about your family:
We are a closely bonded [...]

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First Post

Welcome to Passive House New England.  This is a blog that will follow the design and build of a Passive House being developed in Little Compton, Rhode Island.  The home is a collaboration between architecture firm ZeroEnergy Design and builder Aedi Construction.
We invite you, as our guests to interact with the team as we document [...]

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