The recipe for a NZER or NZE house includes a building enclosure that incorporates optimized levels of insulation to limit thermal bridging, achieves exceptional levels of airtightness, engages fenestrations with a low U-value, and...
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Recommendations from Passive House Canada and other organizations have been published in the 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan: Clean Air, Strong Economy.
The building envelope: A driver for energy retrofits
(04/04/2022)
Deep energy renovations of residential buildings are critical if cities want to tackle their climate emissions on a large scale.
A virtual open house will soon be held to discuss plans for an open space district above the rail corridor in Toronto.
The Ken Soble Tower in Hamilton has become the world’s largest residential building retrofitted to the Passive House standard.
Metro Vancouver’s Zero Emissions Building Exchange has launched its Building to Electrification Coalition with Passive House Canada.
Habit Studio has completed their latest project, Two Rocks, a 418 m2 (4500 sf) net-zero passive house, overlooking the green Gaspereau Valley
“Out(side) In House, located near Toronto’s Scarborough Bluffs, offers a void that leads the inhabitants to see a panoramic horizon of Lake Ontario.”
Year-round Ontario lakehouse by Zerafa Studio
(09/07/2021)
Kennebec Lakehouse on Kennebec Lake, a finger-lake in Arden, Ontario is a year-round vacation home designed by Zerafa Studio.
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