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The Passive Project is Closed

December 28, 2009

The Postgreen Team got a very nice Christmas present this holiday in the form of a closing. The second home in the Passive Project (AKA The Philadelphia Passive House) closed last Thursday finally wrapping up this long lived project. We thank our buyers and wish them the best as they move into their new home.
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Final Pictures from the Philadelphia Passive House

December 18, 2009

The Philadelphia Passive House is about to pass into the possession of its new owners. We held two final tour sessions of the home yesterday which were very well attended. Thanks to all of you who came out. Between tour sessions I took some final pictures, and while I may be adding to these over [...]

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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 noticeable [...]

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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 more [...]

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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.
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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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The Philadelphia Passive Project – 100k and the Passive House Standard

January 30, 2009

We just realized that we have been uncharacteristically quiet about our next project. We are due to break ground in just a couple of weeks, and we have barely written a word about it. This is very unlike us, and I will begin to remedy the situation right now.
Our next project is similar in scale [...]

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M&M 100K Plus Floorplan Draft

July 3, 2008

…So we are going to call this project the “M&M 100K Plus House” for lack of a better name. The ‘M&M’ represents the client (no they’re not bite sized chocolate candies and if we can get a cease and desist letter from Hershey’s it would be great for the portfolio) and the ‘100K Plus’ is intended to indicate that this is an upgraded version of the 100K House.

Enough of my rambling. Here is our first stab at the floorplan for the house:
100K+ Original Floorplan

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