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Construction Updates

Skinny Project Sales Update

December 7, 2009

We are nearing the end of our pre-build organizational process (sounds important doesn’t it) and the Skinny Project ground breaking is fast approaching. Everyone over here at Postgreen is very excited about this project and the way in which it incorporates lessons from both the Passive House and LEED experiences. We also have seen some [...]

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Final Pictures from the M&M House

December 3, 2009

The first of the two houses in the Passive Project has settled, and the new owners are happy to finally be in their new Postgreen Home. The always hectic lead up to this closing has limited our blogging (as you probably noticed) and made it difficult to take the time for really good images. I [...]

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Passive Project Update: Completion is Imminent

November 18, 2009

This is just a quick update on the Passive House Project which is wrapping up this week. This has, for a variety of reasons, been a hurry up and wait kind of project, and right now we are in final hurry up mode. A crazy amount of stuff is getting wrapped up each day. These [...]

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Facade Update and Retrospective: The Passive Project

October 27, 2009

After the expected construction delays and difficulties associated with a standard as ambitious as Passive House, the Passive Project is finally getting wrapped up. Drywall is up, finish work is underway, and we are finally getting a look at the backlog of blog posts we owe you on this process. They are coming. The most [...]

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The Skinny Project – 3 New Postgreen Homes

October 6, 2009

We realized last week that we hadn’t officially announced the sale of our next project – The Skinny Project – on the blog yet. If you attended our web launch party, you heard about it, but we should officially notify everyone who may have missed out here. The third project takes the best lessons learned [...]

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Super Efficient Windows for the Passive Project

September 11, 2009

In addition to insulation levels and air sealing details, the windows and external window shading in the Passive Project is upgraded from the 100K House Project. There is a lot more to windows than insulation levels, but in order to keep things simple we will focus on this aspect and cover energy efficient windows in [...]

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3 Postgreen Homes Available in the Skinny Project

August 25, 2009

The chance to get a Postgreen Home of your own has come again with this, the official announcement of the Skinny Project. We are building three new homes on E. Susquehanna Ave in East Kensington, just a few doors down from the original 100k Project. They are each designed to our exactingly high standards for [...]

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Video Tour of the Furnished 100k House

August 10, 2009

Chad and Courtney are about to bring home their new addition (welcome to the ride Teague). So, I decided it would be a good time to give everyone a look at the furnished 100k House before he gets his little hands on it. Check out the video and be sure to refer to the time [...]

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New Passive Project Page

July 15, 2009

The goal of the 100K House blog is to facilitate learning about sensible, green building on the interweb. So many times when we find a good project out there, little details are provided on the construction especially in one concise format. That’s where we are trying to fill the void with the 100K blog. To [...]

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Passive Project Foundation and Slab Insulation

June 11, 2009

Many have been waiting for us to start posting on specifics of our Passive Project which contains two homes – one of which is seeking the stringent Passive House certification for extreme energy efficiency. We have been waiting to post until we have completed each section of the build. This ensures that we post once [...]

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