http://www.elfstromengineering.com/2008/12/12/passive-house-conference-2008/ Healthy homes and buildings for your changing energy future Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.elfstromengineering.com/2008/12/12/passive-house-conference-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Gary McCallum Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:10:44 +0000 http://www.elfstromengineering.com/?p=191#comment-61 Probably the most dissapointing thing about our reluctance to build passive houses is the fact that so much of the innovation originated in Canada. The air to air heat exchanger, webed truss joists that are utilizd in wall systems and the basic concept of an air tight house first demonstrated in the R 2000 home. I have previously built several High Thermal Mass passive solar homes in Kelowna and am presently chomping at the bit to do my forst European style passive house. Germanay isn't several years ahead of us they are a decade ahead of us with no government direction towards mandating energy efficient houses in the near future.It is truly sad that we are so good at innovating but not very good at implementing. Probably the most dissapointing thing about our reluctance to build passive houses is the fact that so much of the innovation originated in Canada. The air to air heat exchanger, webed truss joists that are utilizd in wall systems and the basic concept of an air tight house first demonstrated in the R 2000 home. I have previously built several High Thermal Mass passive solar homes in Kelowna and am presently chomping at the bit to do my forst European style passive house. Germanay isn’t several years ahead of us they are a decade ahead of us with no government direction towards mandating energy efficient houses in the near future.It is truly sad that we are so good at innovating but not very good at implementing.

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