Passive House / Energy Efficiency

youngmanhattanite:

abcnorio:

Passive House is the standard to which we are building the new ABC No Rio facility. The firm briefly profiled in the article, Zero Energy Design, is the outfit we hired as consultants in this area, and the engineer quoted, Jordan Goldman, is designing our HVAC system and consulting in passive house modeling.

Although people seem most interested and responsive to things like the solar voltaic system and the green roof, passive house is really the “cutting edge” aspect of our project, as far as the green initiatives go. I was surprised to learn from the article that there are only 13 passive house certified buildings in the entire U.S. (I thought there were at least a couple dozen).

Through our project we really will be an example for others of a responsible and far-sighted building practice.

Did you know ABC No Rio is on Tumblr?

I do now! Thanks.

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    I do now! Thanks.
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