Ken Soble Tower, an affordable housing high-rise for seniors in Hamilton, Ont., is now arguably the world’s largest residential building retrofitted to the Passive House standard. Led by ERA ...

Passive house construction — super-insulated energy efficient design — is catching on in Maine, but passive house retrofit of historic buildings hasn’t. Yet, with a surplus of historic buildings that ...

The idea of retrofitting is certainly nothing new, especially for historic buildings. But the Yannell PHIUS+ House project is turning a home built in the 1890s into a Passive House complete with ...

Architects Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston transformed their historic Brooklyn brownstone into a passive house with zero monthly energy costs, including EV charging. The retrofit removed natural gas, ...

Imagine a house that cuts energy use by up to 90 percent of a traditional home, has no furnace, and its mechanical systems fit in the linen closet. The O’Neill Passive House is the country’s first ...

With more focus on sustainability here in New York, passive homes may be the wave of the future in Westchester. What is a passive house? Also known as a high-performance home, it is a residence that ...

Two years after embarking on a landmark retrofitting project, landlord and tenants alike are seeing savings at a series of Brooklyn properties. Nine buildings are seeing “transformational” savings, ...

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES, June 16, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- New England Design And Construction (NEDC) is a leading architectural design build creative ...