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1. Visualizing Windows and PHPP Energy Balance in Sketchup

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In order to evaluate the performance of windows in a building energy model, it is often helpful to use simple graphical visualizations

2. Are Your Shading Settings in Designph Ideal?

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designPH is a plugin for SketchUp 3D and it enables preliminary assessment of heating demand as well as allows for easy input of geometrical data into PHPP.

3. Ecological Home in Dorval

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Lucie Langlois, principal of Alias Architecture in Quebec, is finding that SketchUp and DesignPH are helping to streamline the design process for her second certified single-family Passive House.

4. What's Green, Affordable, and Buildable? Interview with Bryn Davidson of Lanefab Design/Build

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Take a deep dive with Zack Semke into the nitty-gritty of what works in the green building movement

5. Adding A Window Seasonal Net Energy Balance Calculator to the PHPP

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Warning: this is a post all about an excel spreadsheet. If thats not your thing … well … consider this your warning.

6. B. Public Prefab

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B.PUBLIC is a collaborative team creating products for building high-performance to a higher standard of green.

7. Drawing Passive House Details: From Sketch to Construction

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Architect Paul Thompson of BluPath Design takes us on a journey through the approximate workflow of designing a Passive House through 12 drawings.

8. Simplifying Policy Transformations

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The Passive House Network recently released Stepping Up to Passive, which sketches out policy pathways that lead to and ultimately land on the revision of baseline codes so that they deliver Passive House performance.