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Wood Innovation Research Lab

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Explore the Wood Innovation Research Lab's approach to sustainable construction, passive house standards, and advanced wood technologies shaping the future of eco-friendly building design.

Smart and Sustainable: The Sidewalk Labs Reimagines the Built Environment

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Discover how Sidewalk Labs is transforming the built environment with smart technology and sustainable design. Explore innovative solutions for eco-friendly, energy-efficient urban living.

Is Cross Laminated Timber Sustainable?

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Discover if cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a sustainable building material. Learn about its environmental impact, benefits, and role in eco-friendly construction and green architecture.

Passive House Accelerator Construction Tech: Taste the Rainbow of Wood

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Explore the innovative use of wood in Passive House construction with Accelerator Construction Tech. Discover sustainable building materials, energy efficiency trends, and expert insights.

Addressing Embodied Energy With Mass Timber

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Discover how mass timber reduces embodied energy in construction. Explore sustainable building practices, lower carbon emissions, and the future of eco-friendly architecture with mass timber solutions.

Larch Corner Passive House + Timber

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Discover Larch Corner Passive House, a sustainable home built with timber. Learn about eco-friendly construction, energy efficiency, and innovative Passive House design in this detailed article.

Mass Timber Supports Mid-Rise Housing

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Discover how mass timber enhances mid-rise housing with sustainable, energy-efficient construction. Explore benefits, design trends, and why mass timber is shaping the future of urban development.

Ten-Story Mass Timber TallWood Prepares for a Shake Up

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Discover how the Ten Story Mass Timber Tallwood project is advancing earthquake resilience and sustainable building. Explore innovative design, mass timber construction, and seismic testing insights.

Testing Mass Timber’s Seismic Resilience

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Discover how mass timber performs in seismic resilience testing. Explore innovative research, structural safety insights, and sustainable building trends in earthquake-prone regions using mass timber.

Revolutionizing Wooden Frame Houses: The Path to Ultimate Energy Efficiency with Partel Innovations

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Discover how Partel innovations are transforming wooden frame houses with advanced energy efficiency solutions. Learn about sustainable building trends for eco-friendly and passive house design.

Timber Panelized Approach Supports Flexible Housing Solutions

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Discover how a timber panelized construction approach offers flexible, sustainable housing solutions. Explore innovative building methods and their role in modern, eco-friendly architecture.

Women in Passive House: Anushka Singh

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Discover how Anushka Singh is advancing sustainability in building through Passive House design. Explore her journey, insights, and the growing role of women in green architecture.

Vienna House: Designing a Resilient Community

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Discover how Vienna House applies passive house principles to create resilient and sustainable communities. Explore innovative green architecture and energy-efficient design for future-ready living.

Milwaukee’s Edison Pushes Mass Timber to New Heights

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Discover how Milwaukee’s Edison project pioneers sustainable architecture by using mass timber. Learn about green building innovations shaping eco-friendly urban development and construction trends.

New Mass Timber Production in California

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California-based Mad River Mass Timber's new dowel-laminated timber (DLT) production facility aims to bring more mass timber options to the market.

Building a New Career with Bio-Based Materials

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Rainger Pinney talks about his research into bio-based materials and the gradual retrofit of his shop in Poughkeepsie.

Inclusive by Design: Mass Timber Meets Social Mission at Vancouver’s 981 Davie

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The 17-story Passive House tower will soon offer 154 units of housing and community spaces to support Vancouver's 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

The Oaks Zero Energy Neighborhood at Rose Villa Senior Living

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12 craftsman style Passive Houses for a senior community in Portland.

Little Mountain Cohousing

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Little Mountain Cohousing is a 6-storey residential development with 25 apartments

Spire Landing

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The project location is a site on the east side of the Fraser Street between 57th and 58th Avenues.

1st & Lakewood

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24x Unit multi-family residential townhouse and apartment development with and 1x commercial unit and underground parkade.

Passive House Retreat

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This private vacation residence on the New England coast is designed in alignment with the Passive House standard and combines high performance and efficient space utilization in a small package.

Wheelhaus

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The project is a single level multi-generational family home on a sloping site with outstanding views over Whitby and Porirua Harbour (Pāuatahanui Arm).

Colwood Passive House Plus

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This intergenerational residence features a combination of concrete, mass timber, and wood frame construction.

Blossom Park

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Woodstock, Ontario

Skapaskolan

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Skapaskolan is a school with a gym in Passive House standard.

Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre

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Affordable housing for First Nations residents on the east island of Vancouver.

Cedar House

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Cedar Haus meets a complex program of an 1800 sf Passive House

Mamaroneck Passive House

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This terraced passive house was built for a private client in the Village of Mamaroneck. The building is a 2-story wood frame construction with a masonry basement and is oriented 32 Degree east of south.

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.

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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