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Passive House Conference March 26th & a trip to the Seattle Home Show

Be sure to check out the events page for details on our upcoming Passive House Conference to be held this month in Olympia (register by March 12th for the best rate).   I thought about our upcoming conference as I wandered through the Seattle Home Show last week. There were so many vendors and [...]

Seattle Passive House Meeting 2/24/2010 – Dan Whitmore to discuss his Passive House project.

Dan and his plans will be taking a stand on February 24th at the next Passive House Seattle meeting to be held at the Phinney Neighborhood Association, Room 3 (in the upper blue building) from 5:30-6:30pm (conveniently just prior to the 7-9pm Eco Building Guild meeting held in the Community Hall that is in the [...]

Product talk: Zehnder America Comfosystems with HRV

Barry Stephens of  Zehnder America visited Seattle recently and gave a presentation on the company history and their products.  Of particular interest to the Passive House consultants in attendance was the discussion of the Comfosystems with HRV.  It has a manufacturers efficiency of 90% heat recovery (PH in Europe Certification of 84%) and an option [...]

Seafoam Green? No, See – Foam Green!

The latest Eco-Building Guild discussion topic was on Spray Polyurethane Foam insulation, and boy did it get indepth!  I took notes as fast as I could and I hope to do justice to what Jim Walker, Ben Cook, & George Ostrow presented.  The focus was on 2 part spray in place foam, though there was [...]