Passive House Showcase & Green Building Mixer - Thursday, July 8, 2010

Submitted by katy on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 9:42am

LEED for Homes meets Passive House

Celebrate the making of Blue2, the first new Passive House in California, which will also be a Certified LEED Home and GreenPoint Rated. It is a super low-energy, affordable housing unit. Please join us:

Thursday, July 8, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Please RSVP and pay in advance at http://clam2openhouse.eventbrite.com
Contact clamtour@passivehouseca.org with questions

$10 for members of organizations noted below (membership will be verified) | $15 for all others

Participating organizations:

Location

Blue2 House
11560 California 1
Pt Reyes Station, CA 94956

Please park next door at West Marin School

NOTE: This is a home. Please, no random site visits.

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Celebrate the near completion of Blue2, the first new Passive House in California, with the non-profit, grassroots affordable housing developer CLAM. Blue2 will also be LEED Certified and GreenPoint Rated. Passive House complements both LEED and GPR by providing a predictable and reliable path to low energy and small carbon footprint buildings for not only houses, but all building types. Passive House and this project represent a new paradigm for affordable housing as it locks in affordability forever. These buildings are cost effective, great for the environment, and provide the highest quality indoor air and occupant comfort. This marks the next step of a new way of building that is arising.

Passive House is the German system of super low energy buildings that essentially have no furnace, and instead heat themselves with saved heat from the occupants and appliances. The European Union has almost 20,000 Passive House buildings built, and they are considering making it their required building code. The U.S. has about a dozen Passive House buildings. Passive House is twice as energy efficient as ENERGY STAR, and all buildings in Austria, where there is one Passive House for every six people, surpass ENERGY STAR.

This will be a mixer for Passive House California, USGBC-REC, USGBC-NCC, Build It Green, Green Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations. The architect and builder will present a short technical overview of what makes this a Passive House, and Prudence Ferreira will discuss the relationship between LEED and Green Point Rated and Passive House, and there will be other speakers as well. Please spread the word and join the celebration of this momentous occasion!

NOTE: If you are not able to make this date, CLAM, the non-profit affordable housing developer of Blue2, will be having a more formal celebration on July 5.

To learn more

CLAM: www.clam-ptreyes.org
Blue2: http://clam-bluehouseblog.blogspot.com
Passive House Institute U.S.: www.passivehouse.us
Passive House California: www.passivehouseca.org