How do you serve the needs of senior citizens who have fallen on hard times in the Big Apple? In Betances Residence, CookFox Architects are integrating the protective benefits of #passivehouse with beautifully considered, user-tailored design. mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

Stirling #passivehouse blitzes RIBA 2030 targets The Thursday long read mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

When upgrading an old stone-walled building to the #Enerphit standard — with all the inherent challenges such an upgrade poses for energy, airtightness and moisture — who better to have as your client and defacto site manager than a professor of physics? mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

How to rescue a 1970s bungalow - In 2015 John Hearne visited a #passivehouse #retrofit in Co Meath and saw how a long, dark, 1970s bungalow was transformed into a bright modern home that was now warm and comfortable. mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

Pump up the volume - Offaly school uses volumetric modular timber build mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

Reimagining the architect - The role of designers in a world where less is more mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

International passive building - An intriguing #passivehouse apartment building in north-west Spain mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

19th century home drops #energydemand by 94% This ambitious #A1 #retrofit of a Dublin redbrick exceeded the #NZEB standard - a beautifully-detailed blueprint for delivering warmth, comfort, and healthy indoor air in historic city centre properties. - mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

Traditional Irish cottage looks to the future - This week we look back at a cottage in the west of Ireland that, despite some stop-start beginnings, delivered a traditional-but-stylish design with close-to-#passivehouse performance. mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

Mayo #passivehouse makes you forget the weather - Homeowners Michael and Paula Sheridan say that living in their farmhouse-inspired home — which includes a highly unorthodox heating system — it is easy to completely forget how cold it is outside. mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

Mayo passive house makes you forget the weather - eepurl.com/jfGZ_c

Suffolk eco home embraces wood & warmth. This cellulose-filled timber frame house in the Suffolk countryside combines a rustic timber aesthetic with a simple contemporary form to rest lightly on the land. mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

Slope and Glory - Architect Tony Godwin wandered into a #passivehouse seminar #Ecobuild to start a journey that would see him design his own passive home on a sloping site — achieving a comfortable, ultra-low energy family home with tiny #energybills.mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

One of the biggest threats in the air we breathe comes from something we are exposed to almost every day, but rarely think about: #cooking. In i33 John Hearne reported on the evidence for how cooking affects #indoorairquality, and what we can do about it. mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

Five years ago, a #fabricfirst trailblazer took a dose of his own medicine – and delivered a family home that combines #climateaction, comfort, cost-effectiveness and resilience in the face of a record-breaking storm. mailchi.mp/passivehousepl… #passivehouse

Cavan #Passivehouse proves powercut proof - eepurl.com/jhOQ5w

Mike Eliason, founder of Larch Lab & author of Building for People, reflects how events from the pandemic & #climate disasters to #urbanhousing challenges – shaped his mission to bring #sustainable, community-focused, and #climateadaptive living to the US mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

This is what you get when one of Ireland’s most experienced #lowenergy builders creates a home with help from one of the country’s foremost #ecological architects — a modern & elegant passive house that pays detailed attention to sustainability. - mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

Welsh school fuses #passive & eco material innovation An award-winning two-building extension delivering healthy, ultra #lowenergy school buildings – one of which was #passivehousecertified – while pushing the boundaries of #timber engineering. mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…

An #affordablehousing scheme in Exeter not only embraced a suite of healthy and #naturalmaterials, but it vindicated the local council’s embrace of the #passivehouse standard, with many of the units requiring no additional heating whatsoever. mailchi.mp/passivehousepl…