{"id":3642,"date":"2020-12-31T00:29:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T00:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","slug":"consider-a-passive-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/consider-a-passive-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider a Passive House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passive House standard is widely utilized in Europe, but to a much smaller extent here in the US; it achieves approximately 80% reduction in heating and cooling energy.<\/p>\n<p>Passive building is designed and built in accordance with these five building-science principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Employs continuous insulation throughout its entire envelope without any thermal bridging.<\/li>\n<li>The building envelope is extremely airtight, preventing infiltration of outside air and loss of conditioned air.<\/li>\n<li>Employs high-performance windows (double or triple-paned windows depending on climate and building type) and doors &#8211; solar gain is managed to exploit the sun&#8217;s energy for heating purposes in the heating season and to minimize overheating during the cooling season.<\/li>\n<li>Uses some form of balanced heat- and moisture-recovery fresh air ventilation.<\/li>\n<li>Uses a minimal space conditioning system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phius.org\/what-is-passive-building\/passive-house-principles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.phius.org\/what-is-passive-building\/passive-house-principles&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1609458819862000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFs_AxTunG5BpAKy-CZznrgur0fDQ\">https:\/\/www.phius.org\/what-is-passive-building\/passive-house-principles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interested in a tour of a local project? See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Squirrel-Hill-Passive-House-Duplex-182341078626908\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Squirrel-Hill-Passive-House-Duplex-182341078626908\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1609458819862000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEmynDwSTGlb9l6EN6tNBdFgkopxw\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Squirrel-Hill-Passive-House-Duplex-182341078626908\/<\/a>, the story of this Passive House construction.<\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:lucyna.debarbaro@gmail.com\">lucyna.debarbaro@gmail.com<\/a> for a tour; open to groups of 1-4 persons even in Covid-19 time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passive homes achieve approximately 80% reduction in heating and cooling energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenhouse","category-pa_pgh_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}