Expected to break ground in June of 2020, the CLT Passive House demonstration project will comprise five floors with 14 residential units as well as innovative and affordable co-working spaces for ...

If completed as proposed, the building would be passive house -certified and rise via a mix of steel framing and exposed cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor plates, with more CLT panels used to ...

Built with Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) and burrowed into a meadow slope, this one-level approximately 3,300-square-foot building is the new communal heart of the development and serves as a ...

Compared to the roof vents on most houses, a Passive House has just a single air intake. A powerful filtration system is installed to control the flow of air, which helps keep embers out. "And in ...

The result was the 1978 Saskatchewan Conservation House, a cedar-clad trapezoid that cut energy usage by 85%—and helped inspire today’s globally recognized passive-house standard for building ...