"Passive cooling"

Passive cooling / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Windows and doors

Product feature: window film treatment to reflect heat and lower air conditioning bills

...cooling systems will always have a place in home design, but they should be a secondary design focus after cheaper passive cooling strategies have been implemented. Natural shading techniques to cool homes Our reliance on grid-fed power to cool our homes in summer as global temperatures rise, and our acceptance of th...

Passive House

The Passive-aggressive house - our history of a Passivhaus build

...Passive House designer doesn’t necessarily know much about aesthetics. It should ideally be an iterative process, a tango between an architect and a Passive House designer. But many early European projects were only “designed” by Passive House designers, who are often engineers, not designers in the usual sense. So unf...

Efficient home design

Understanding thermal performance

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Passive solar home design

Passive house and passive solar - free heat for homes

...passive solar heating & cooling? Passive heating and cooling of homes is not new. The above image is of Mesa Verde National Park, the Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in Colorado, occupied from 700 to 1300 AD. This early North American settlement was shaded from the summer sun, but fully exposed to the sun in win...

Heating and cooling

How to keep homes cool without air conditioning

...Passive House ready prefab homes for Canada and the US How to design a home for thermal comfort and energy efficiency Zero carbon homes - the Ecohome S1600 prefab comes close! Heat pumps are for heating AND cooling, see our 2025 buyers guide Find more about green home construction and reap the benefits of a fr...