My family just spent two weeks of Christmas vacation in the 1850 SF farmhouse we renovated last year. You can learn more about the renovation on that blog. Here is how it performed with a family of 5 plus… read more →
Good reading here in the blog of Katrin Klingenberg (Passive House Institute -US Director)… http://blog.phius.org/healthy-buildings-part-1-9-principles/
This project is personal: the renovation of our family’s house in Maine. It is a work in progress. The goal has been to take care of a century of deferred maintenance and to make the house as energy-efficient as possible… read more →
This YouTube video is a presentation we just did for a community development group in Virginia interested in developing a new neighborhood of high performance net zero energy homes. Our concept is based upon using a combination of several basic… read more →
I have been reading recently of developments in the study of the human microbiome and its interconnection with the larger environment. It is changing my thinking about how we should be building our houses (and hospitals!). A microbiome is basically… read more →
It has been a long time since our last post and I’ll start with an update of some speaking engagements, as we have continued over the last year to get out the word on high performance building design. In June,… read more →
Construction is underway on our first deep energy retrofit of a historic structure. The Spencer Carriage House, listed as a DC Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1905 to serve one of the large… read more →
On Saturday, April 15 Tom and Joyce moved into their new home. There is still work to be done in completing the garage and landscaping but the house interior is totally complete right on deadline. A couple of weeks before, they opened… read more →
The Fairfax zero energy home will be complete within the month, and the garage is expected to be complete by mid-May. Our will be opening the house on the 24th to Fairfax County officials, and have generously allowed us to follow… read more →
We are getting near completion of the project, as painters are busy finishing walls and trim and we continue to await the arrival of the high pressure laminate paneling for the exterior. We are now told that that will be in the… read more →