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Make your building the star! Shoot a video of your Passive House project and share it with the world! Find all the video entries on YouTube: International Mid-year Passive House Open days Given the current circumstances require further social-distancing measures, we have adjusted the guidelines for the mid-year International Passive House Open Days. We believe that the event is an important opportunity to convince people of…
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This limestone by classic 19th century Brooklyn architect Benjamin Driesler got a 21st century Passive House makeover, complete with triple pane windows, rooftop solar panels and some interesting design touches on the interior. Just blocks from Grand Army Plaza, the house at 154 Underhill Avenue is located in the Prospect Heights Historic District. The Renaissance Revival style row house with a brownstone-clad basement, angled bay and bracketed cornice was designed…
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Are you experienced? If so, tell us about it. Tell us the story of your building project, wherever it is! We’ll show as many of the videos as we can at the conference – about 15 to 20 – and those we can’t fit, we’ll show later online. And like the in-person tours, we want you to do live Q&A while the tour is broadcast at the conference. Your winning…
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Anisotropic behaviour: The effect of anisotropic behaviour on timber is well from timber. If thermal flux is perpendicular to the fibre, the conductivity (λ) of softwood is around 0.13 W/(mK). In the direction of the fibre, the conductivity is about 0.29 W/(mK). In the process of straw bale production, the straw stalks are pressed into bales with a certain orientation. A high proportion of the stalks are oriented perpendicular to…
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VISION Choose Your Future” is a call to action – to recognize the power of individuals to produce change and to build a movement; a call to not forfeit our influence over events but use it. [hr] Sign up as member of NYPH and use your unique discount code at checkout. [button link="https://nyph.stargraphicdesign.com/product/professional-member//" bg_color="#ef4731" border="#ef4731" window="yes"]Join Us >[/button] [hr] Register for the Virtual Conference [button link="https://naphnconference.com/" bg_color="#ef4731" border="#ef4731" window="yes"]Register Now…
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We are developing a grassroots network of architects, non-profit organizations, service providers, housing and real estate professionals, and engineers to make ourselves available for emergency response to the ongoing covid-19 crisis. Our goal is to support the significant efforts already being made by government and private sector professionals and we are looking for volunteers who can provide any level of support. With a tremendous task upon New York City in…
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Dear NYPH community, In this very challenging time, we are all adjusting to this new reality and taking the necessary actions to move forward with our lives. Due to COVID-19, New York Passive House has begun to make appropriate adjustments to our programming and events. We hope that we can continue to provide you with our regular programming initiatives during this time from the safety of your homes. We are…
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Workforce Development and Training, Policy Resource Guide 2019, by Bronwyn Barry, Passive House BB Between 2014-2016, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) initiated a workforce training and development program focused on subsidizing courses to promote a broad array of skills and services related to improving building energy efficiency. They contracted directly with fifty training providers who offered various specialty courses. Of the 20,407 people trained via…
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WHEREAS, we face a clear global climate emergency, caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels; and WHEREAS, we all have a moral, economic, public health, and security imperative to act to protect our planet, fellow human beings, and future generations; and WHEREAS, we must act, and act together at every level, as individuals, as cities, and as a global community; and WHEREAS, climate action by cities can also address…
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On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 the Committee on Housing and Buildings voted 8-0 to eliminate Section R408 Passive House [divider] [button link="https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4277797&GUID=52C734F2-A45B-477B-8209-1D7C6EED8E49&Options=ID|Text|&Search=Intro+1816" bg_color="#ef4731" border="#ef4731" window="yes"]Intro 1816-A[/button] [hr] The proposed bill eliminates the very critical Section R408 Passive House as an alternative compliance path of the NYStretch Energy Code-2020. NYPH does not support the deletion of Section R408 Passive House. [divider] [button link="https://nyph.stargraphicdesign.com/why-it-is-important-to-include-section-r408-passive-house-into-the-new-york-city-energy-conservation-code-nycecc/" bg_color="#ef4731" border="#ef4731" window="yes"]Why Support Passive House[/button] [hr]
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Green Light, The Rise of the Energy Efficient Building Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarships Journal Series Kate Nason 2018 [hr] A Standard that Empowers the Profession The following is a non-exhaustive list of the benefits associated with utilising the Passive House Standard in projects: Practice what we preach: Empowers architects to fulfil their obligation in climate protection and allow us to practice what we preach. Verification tool: Testing of the as-built-quality…
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Changes to the Massachusetts Commercial and Residential Stretch Energy Code A stretch code is an overlay code that provides a path to achieve greater energy efficiency over the requirements of the base code. With the Green Communities Act in 2008, Massachusetts took a national leadership role in building energy codes by being one of the first states to adopt a “stretch energy code.” There are THREE options available under…
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