Solar-powered Passive House apartments are part of a green building trend. This week, thousands of developers, engineers and ...

reports Passive House design aggressively insulates against the elements, captures solar heat gain in winter and shades from solar gain in summer. Passive House design also provides natural ...

Above: The living room of a Passive House conversion ... easy to make a net-zero home—where the building produces as much ...

This net-positive, off-grid home built according to Passivhaus features, three-beds and two-baths. It was built in 2023 in ...

Specializing in climate-driven design, the firm adapts each project to its surrounding ... a significant risk in these ...

A Trombe wall is a passive solar building feature that enhances ... creating an easy-to-follow pathway for accommodating changing home design trends. The main role of architecture is to create ...

We can sometimes use the sun’s energy directly, like when we design homes to take advantage of passive solar heat. But when ...

Home solar systems also require an inverter to convert solar energy into usable power. You can also add a solar battery to store energy outside sunlight hours. Most solar companies will design ...

By focusing on design features, homes can benefit from lower build and ongoing operational costs and boost comfort.

See how you can save money on utility bills and support clean energy by installing a solar water heater system to heat your home’s water ... active and passive. Active systems use circulating ...

A photo of Hurricane Helene devastation in western North Carolina. Photo by Cory Vaillancourt/Smokey Mountain News By Gary MitchellWhen I was in college in the 1970s, there was a lot of talk about ...

Although filings indicate Fertitta's Wynn position is a passive investment ... recently announced plans to lay off about 500 ...