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Simple and Quite Amazing
A Certified Passive House or Passivhaus, as it's known in Europe, is not the same as a passive solar design of the 70's and early 80's. Passive Houses today are wonderfully simple to own and maintain, and they work exceptionally well in our rainy PNW climate as well as all other climate zones, due to sophisticated design tools, we can tailor the home to your specific micro-climate. See our Q&A's.
“When it’s very very cold, I can make a cake…!” [video]
“Heat Your Home for $1.63 per week!” [blog post]
Benefits of a Passive House
- Unbeatable comfort
- Outstanding indoor air quality
- Save about 75% on TOTAL energy bill
- Save about 90% on heating/cooling bill
- Super low-maintenance
- Highly durable designed for 200 year lifespan
- Significantly reduce your carbon-footprint
- Affordable net-zero as energy costs increase
Think
Simplicity, flexibility, energy-independence, freedom from high utility bills, comfort, beauty, and endurance.
That's a Certified Passive House, very simple, very elegant.
The Home of the Future
New York based journalist Charlie Hoxie recently made a documentary, Passive Passion, to help spread the word about designing and building using the Passive House methods.
In his video clips he features the homeowner of the first certified Passive House built in Germany...
"The numbers speak for themselves... I can't see why anyone would build any other way than a Passive House..."
"Our experience of working with the Artisans Group was remarkably smooth..."
"There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through."
~Dan Rice