Top Passive House News This Week

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Top Passive House News This Week

Passive House Accelerator

– January 22, 2020

Here’s a roundup of last week’s top Passive House tweets!

Brutalist Marcel Breuer building in CT sold to become net zero hotel:

Permits have been filed for a five-story Passive House residential complex in Brooklyn’s Columbia Street Waterfront District:

Oxford University has moved to Passivhaus design and construction in its pursuit of excellent building performance, after the previous ratings failed to deliver:

Bank Australia is the first bank to offer the Clean Energy Home Loan, which offers rates as low as 2.44% for NatHERS 7* or certified Passive House:

Valleyview townhall gets final nod from the Passive House Institute – first Passive House PLUS of its kind:

Star Innovation Center becomes first certified Passive House project in South Asia, and the second certified Passive House factory building in the world:

Seaton’s environmentally friendly seafront development crowned best in the UK:

Councillor Simon Bull supports proposal for new Passivhaus council homes for Charminster:

Over 130km of SIGA products have been used at the Train Passive House City in Gaobeidian, China:

New houses emitting five times too much carbon in NZ study:

TAFE New South Wales takes students to Canada to learn about passive house design:

https://www.architectureanddes…The first bushfire resistant Passive House survived the fires in Australia:

Cambridge’s Passive House is built with focus on affordable housing, climate change:

Colorado’s most energy efficient home is a Passive House:

University College Cork is seeking an architect to design a home for its business school in the heart of the south of Ireland city – looking for Passive House submissions:

Energy efficiency ratings don’t measure air tightness experts have said new measures may be needed:

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