A worker walks into the back of the Conservatory Apartments in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood on Aug. 2, 2023. The apartments are being constructed to the Passive House standard that combines ...

The Passive House movement has accelerated under its own power in the United States, driven by increasing efforts to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and ...

As a practice, New York-based architecture studio ChoShields has always been interested in environmental and social sustainability. But it wasn’t until founding principal In Cho, visiting assistant ...

A new skyscraper in downtown Boston has become the largest “passive house” office space in the world, according to the Passive House Institute in Germany. The 812,000 square-foot Winthrop Center ...

In 2013, Sloan Ritchie chose tony and traditional Madison Park as the launchpad for an ambitious experiment in building science. He and his wife, Jennifer, deliberately selected a bold exterior design ...

Following a slew of national natural disasters — most recently the Southern California wildfires and the historic winter storm that hit Southern states — interest in durable and sustainable ...

“Passive house” can rank pretty far up the list of inadvertently misleading phrases. Realizing the momentous energy-saving potential of this approach requires plenty of active effort on the part of ...

Tucked into the foothills outside of Fort Collins, this minimalist mountain home is the ideal base for a screen-free getaway. Photo courtesy of Andrew Michler The Local newsletter is your free, daily ...

Tad and Maria Everhart have spent 10 years making their 1997 Southeast Portland house more energy efficient and comfortable. They didn’t retrofit it, they say they “future fitted” it by adapting ...

We have never actually explained this in one post on TreeHugger. I am going to try. At the opening keynote presentation of the PassiveHouse Canada conference recently, I rolled my eyes when Deborah ...