This is a link to a short article in USA Today. It’s about a recently certified Passive House in Salt Lake City. Passive House design can take on many architectural styles to suit the varied tastes out there, (note the Portland Remodel post), this Salt Lake house embodies a clean simplicity that ‘feels’ good to look at.
The homeowners started a project blog that is fun to look at, especially the performance numbers if you are into that sort of thing. One of the primary numbers Passive House nerds like to discuss is ‘how many ACH?’ which translates to “How many air changes per hour go through the house when a blower door test is conducted at 50 pascals”… this one comes in at .47… not bad.
To learn more about passive house design please visit the Passive House Institute US.
Posted on April 29, 2010
