TOMORROW! Passive Landmark: A First For New York
28 Sep 2015, Posted by in EventsPassive House, the high-comfort, low-energy building standard, is enjoying a huge amount of attention in New York City policy circles. Passive House is gaining recognition as an effective strategy to massively reduce energy consumption in commercial and residential building sectors.
Bright ‘n Green features many Passive House elements, such as, an airtight building envelope, thermal insulation, southern facing site orientation for passive heating/cooling and daylighting, and 24/7 ventilation and air recycling, including a heat recovery ventilator and a earth heat exchanger. Learn more about Bright ‘n Green’s Passive House properties here.
The first Passive House certified project in a NYC Landmark District is completed!
NYPH and Building Energy Exchange (BEEX) present this recent retrofit led by Baxt Ingui Architects transforming a historic Brooklyn Heights brownstone into a Passive House certified gem.
WHEN – Tuesday, September 29, 2015 – to
Key members, Michael Ingui of Baxt Ingui Architects and Kevin Brennan of Passive House Academy, will speak about the challenges encountered and creative solutions developed throughout the design, construction, and certification process. Other project team members will be on hand to discuss how their collaborative design process allowed them to refine a repeatable, systematic approach for applying the Passive House standard to masonry retrofit row house construction.
SPEAKERS
Michael Ingui, Baxt Ingui Architects
Kevin Brennan, Passive House Academy
Sam McAfee, Fentrend
Eoin Killeen, Kleen Construction
AIA CREDIT
This program is available for 1.5 AIA CEUs
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