Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clutch City Passive has brought nature to the city in a remarkable way, and the stunning, high-performance home may have people ...

Passive House design is booming in multifamily development. However myths about this sustainable building approach may be holding back momentum. Originating in Germany in the late 1980s, PH is a ...

Passive house construction — that super-tight energy efficient design invented by the Germans — has gone from a niche concept to a mainstream one in the 10 years since the first passive house building ...

Developer A.J. Patton remembers when his mother received a $400 gas bill during a frigid Chicago winter in 1999. She worked in a cafeteria at the time, money was tight, and there was already a hole in ...

Zachau Construction, a general contractor in Freeport, promoted four employees who have backgrounds in passive house construction, L.L.Bean projects and affordable housing development. Adam Routhier ...

SACRAMENTO — A new kind of home construction is coming to Sacramento to help battle the impact of extreme heat and wildfires. The certified passive homes are built to meet a high standard for air ...

As the construction industry moves toward greener solutions, the push for sustainable, energy-efficient buildings grows. Global energy consumption for buildings accounts for nearly 40% of total energy ...

Passive House, an ultra-efficient building standard that originated in Germany, has been used for single-family homes since its inception in 1990. Only recently has the concept made its way into the ...

Multifamily Design+Construction's Rob Cassidy talks with two Passive House developers and the Executive Director of phius about the true costs and benefits of passive house design and construction for ...

Katrin Klingenberg designed and built the very first home in the United States built to the passive building energy standard. Her experience led her to co-found e-cological Construction Laboratory ...

Woman-owned architecture firm HPZS has completed the first certified single-family Passive House renovation in Chicago, demonstrating that retrofitting America’s older homes to meet energy-efficient ...