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The Heights: Case Study In Vancouver, BC

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Discover The Heights Passive House case study in Vancouver, BC. Explore sustainable building practices, energy-efficient design, and insights on modern passive house trends for eco-friendly living.

Multifamily Passive House Design and Construction in Vancouver

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Discover key strategies and best practices for multifamily Passive House design and construction in Vancouver. Learn how energy-efficient buildings support sustainability and comfortable urban living.

A CLT and Passive House Case Study

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Discover how cross-laminated timber and Passive House standards combine in this in-depth case study, exploring energy efficiency, sustainability, and innovative green building techniques for modern construction.

Hobson Place—A Vital Housing Resource

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Discover how Hobson Place integrates Passive House principles for energy-efficient, sustainable housing. Explore innovative building features, design strategies, and eco-friendly solutions.

How Healthy Housing Can Help Rebuild Lives

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Discover how healthy housing solutions promote well-being, energy efficiency, and sustainable communities. Learn how better home design can support recovery, resilience, and improved quality of life.

David Hill House

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Amid the forested hills of the Pretty River Valley southwest of Collingwood, Ontario, a 230-m2 two-storey Passive House emerges that blends the old with the new.

Model C Multifamily

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For Placetailor, just using CLTs wasn’t sufficient for their low carbon building aspirations.

Batesville Net-Zero Residence

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Completed in 2016, the architecture of the Batesville residence was inspired by the client’s love for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses, and their wish for a contemporary design.

Blindheim Passive House

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Designed to intelligently push creative design boundaries and produce a comfortable, quiet, and resilient house without compromise

The Heights

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The Heights, a mixed-use six-storey building, built to meet the Passive House standard.

Washington Heights Multifamily

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PHIUS certified mixed-use multifamily in Washington Heights

Marpole Passive House

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This single-family Passive House takes advantage of excellent southern orientation overlooking the banks of the Fraser Valley.

The Narrows

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The Narrows is a mixed-use building with 48 residential rental suites in conventional wood frame construction over 2400 sqft of commercial uses in a concrete podium.

Northland Newton Development

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Northland Newton Development has been approved by Newton City Council after 3 years in planning. The project consists of 14 mixed-use buildings, of which SWA is providing services for 12.

The Wave House

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Two-storey detached house (Ground and Basement) of 590 m2 built surface and located on the southern slope of the mountain overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

Mixed-Use Building Rises in Midtown Manhattan

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This 24-story mixed-use building embodies the challenges and risks in developing an urban site with neighboring tall buildings, a tight zoning envelope, and a mid-block location with limited light, air, and access.

Montréal Retrofit Classic

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Montréal, Quebec

Win-Win for a Family

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Passive House doesn’t necessarily connote modest, but there is no reason the two can’t comfortably coexist, as they do in this custom single-family home with suite.

Corvette Landing

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Esquimalt, British Columbia

Multigenerational Passive House

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At first glance, the 485-m2 house on a quiet countryside road in Langley appears to be like any other. The charming modern farmhouse is a simple two-storey rectangle with a welcoming wraparound porch.

Goldstream Avenue

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Owned and operated by the Greater Victoria Housing Society, this six-storey wood-frame building will be providing 102 affordable housing units plus supporting space.

University of Victoria Student Housing and Dining

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Victoria, British Columbia

Valleyview Town Hall

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Valleyview, Alberta

South Surrey Passive House

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South Surrey, British Columbia

Wild Leek Farm

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Guelph, Ontario

Austrian Social Insurance Companies in Vienna

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The administration building of the "umbrella association of the Austrian. Social Security ”has been subjected to a general overhaul.

StadtNatur Residential

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The project of the building association StadtNatur GbR is located on a piece of land in Munich's Alt-Riem district

Aylesbury Single Family

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Lark Rise is an ultra-low-energy, contemporary and healthy home.

Chinese Passive House Research Centre

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Passive House Technical and Experience Center in Qingdao / China.

Madrid School

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Charter Telecom National Headquarters

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When developing a new, 1,500-m2 office building, Charter Telecom listed several priorities: occupant comfort, a high-quality work environment, low operating costs, and reasonable construction costs.

Millhaus

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Millhaus is strongly informed by the former Cherry Mill property upon which it resides and by the Passive House building principles to which it is certified.

Alone House

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This small citadel developed through the owner’s desire for a house-as-retreat. The project fortifies the residents from the changing environment.

House Askew

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This 3-story, 2300 sf brick rowhouse in Philadelphia is one of the city's first foam-free deep energy retrofits.

Outlet

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Outlet re-imagines a couple’s unique street-to-street urban lot with the addition of a new outbuilding connected to their existing residence through an open garden terrace.

Good Energy Haus

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Designed by TE Studio principal Tim Delhey Eian as his family home, Good Energy Haus was built in 2019/20 and serves as a beacon for sustainability.

Tomo House

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Complete in summer 2023, Tomo House will be the third cohousing project to be built in Vancouver within the last decade, consisting of 12 housing units.

Fox Hall

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Fox Hall House represents an evolution of the building typology that Alan Barlis developed in the Hudson Passive Project where a high-performance skin is draped over a timber frame structure.

West Village Townhouse

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BarlisWedlick retrofitted this storied Landmarked townhouse in downtown Manhattan’s Greenwich Village to meet Passive House certification.

Westchester Passive Retrofit

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This project in Pound Ridge, NY, is architecture firm BarlisWedlick’s first retrofit Passive House renovation—an upgrade to a family’s forever home. Constructed in the 1980s and using innovative techniques of the era, specifically structural insulated panels (SIPs) over its timber frame structure, the home has accommodated the growing family since the late 1990s.

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