Early Fall Visits by the Homeowners: Framing the House Twice

Note: This post is the first by the homeowners, Pierre and Hilary, who will be sharing their thoughts through the construction process. *** Hilary, the kids and I have been enjoying visits to the site to the see the rapid progress of the construction.  We’ll be posting photos soon. Over the past six weeks, what [...]

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Video of Passive House Site

Here’s a quick video of the site.  We’ll have better quality in future posts.

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Passive House covered in NYTimes

See coverage of another home that ZeroEnergy Design worked on in the NY Times!

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Construction Begins!

The Little Compton Passive House is under construction!  The contractor has done the site prep and poured the foundation. The foundation has what’s known as a frost wall, which is an insulated foundation wall that is built below the frost line.  One can see the insulation installed on both sides of the pour.  The slab [...]

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About the Design

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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