This new 1600 square foot residence in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California was completed in early 2013. In addition to PHIUS+ Passive House certification, the project earned LEED Platinum certification as well as Fine… Read more »
Location: Carmel-by-the Sea, California
Year of Construction: 2013
In February of 2006 the California State Legislature passed a bill to require all new homes in the State to be built as ‘net zero energy’ by 2020. Scroll forward… Read more »
Location: San Jose, California
Year of Construction: 2012
These clients came to us to because their 1957 California rancher was really uncomfortable and needed a complete overhaul. They’d lived with the original kitchen and bathrooms for 9 years… Read more »
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Year of Construction: 2013
The first house in Palo Alto built to the Passive House Standard is known as Project Green Home. Completed in June 2011, it meets and exceeds the State’s residential 2020… Read more »
Location: Palo Alto, California
Year of Construction: 2011
This Crafstsman-style home was completed in 2013 and was designed to integrate modern and classic energy-efficiency techniques. Coupled with Passive House efficiency, the house is equipped with 18 kW of… Read more »
Location: Palo Alto, California
Year of Construction: 2013
The mission of the house is to create an extremely energy efficient and healthy house – with no aesthetic compromises. The house demonstrates that sustainable building does not need to… Read more »
Location: Palo Alto, California
Year of Construction: 2015
This 94-year old house is the first certified Passive House in Santa Cruz County. Water conservation features include rainwater harvesting for indoor non-potable use (laundry and toilets). Charming and comfortable… Read more »
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Year of Construction: 2013
This is a Passive House Remodel of a summer cottage originally built in the early 20th century. The owners kept the old-growth interior intact and remodeled the house to Passive… Read more »
Location: Portola Valley, California
Year of Construction: 2012
The Berkeley LEED Platinum Passive House is a modern 1035 square foot single family residence with two bedrooms and two baths. Significant features include: 0.4 ACH50 infiltration; Alpen triple-pane windows;… Read more »
Location: Berkeley, California
Year of Construction: 2019
Net Zero All Electric Passive House major renovation with one story addition
Location: Los Angeles, California
Year of Construction: 2017
Passive House Los Angeles (PHLA+) is located in Culver City, California a bustling independent city in West Los Angeles near the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Marina Del Rey, the… Read more »
Location: Los Angeles, California
Year of Construction: 2019
The HANAC Corona Senior Residence provides 67 units of affordable housing to seniors aged 62 and older earning 40-60% of the area median income (AMI), including 21 apartments set aside… Read more »
Location: Corona, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
Historic preservation can be a very effective strategy for increasing urban sustainability – re-using an existing building keeps materials out of landfills and results in dramatically fewer carbon emissions than… Read more »
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
Located along a stretch of Canal Street in the West Tribeca Historical District, this 24,000 SF, mixed-use Passive House designed building will bring additional residential and commercial space to a… Read more »
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2021
425 Grand Concourse is in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx. This new mixed-use and mixed-income development will create 277 units of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families.… Read more »
Location: Bronx, New York
Year of Construction: 2020
This 24 story building is currently the tallest Infill Passive House building in the world. The mixed use project has 55 residential apartments of which 17 are affordable as well… Read more »
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2019
This 17’ wide, 5 story landmarked townhouse was fully renovated to meet the PHI EnerPHit standard. The work included adding an elevator, lowering the cellar, extending an existing first floor… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2015
Sendero Verde is an innovative concept in affordable housing, providing a neighborhood’s worth of services under one roof, in a building designed to Passive House standards. Located in East Harlem… Read more »
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2021
The House is part of Cornell Tech’s new 2.1 million square foot technology campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. The building is designed to reinforce the unique model… Read more »
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2017
This terraced house was built for a private client in the Village of Mamaroneck. The building is a 2 story wood frame construction with a masonry basement and is oriented… Read more »
Location: Mamaroneck, New York
Year of Construction: 2013
In 2018, HSA transformed a 15,000 square-foot 1920’s commercial building in the Brooklyn Heights historic district into Packer Collegiate Institute’s new Early Learning Center using Passive House principles. While the… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
The design for a new 9-story mixed-use residential and retail building at 470 Columbus will feature a modern interpretation of traditional district typology on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. With architecture… Read more »
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2020
The residence at 158 Clifton Place is a two-family row house in Brooklyn, New York. The structure was gut-renovated to the Passive House New York EnerPHit standard and supplemented with… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2016
ABC No Rio is a community arts organization with roots in the Lower East Side dating back to the 1980s. The new building for this group consists of performance spaces,… Read more »
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2020
A full gut renovated landmarked, 5 story townhouse in New York City, restored to meet EnerPHit standards. The project included full restoration of the historic front façade and stoop, a… Read more »
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2016
R-951 Residence is a modern, energy efficient, three-apartment building and is the first residential project in New York City to have both Passive House & Net Zero Ready certifications. The… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2015
This Brooklyn row house, built originally in the 1870s, was gut renovated and achieved Passive House EnerPHit certification. The house is air tight and well insulated, and has a constant… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2014
This Artists’ Studio project on the north-fork of Long Island is one of the first projects in the United States to receive international PassiveHouse certification—meeting the rigorous building envelope and energy-use… Read more »
Location: Orient, New York
Year of Construction: 2011
This Passive House retrofit is the first certified Passive House project in NYC and a winner in the 2014 International Passive House Design Awards. The retrofit adds a new rear… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2012
This wood Framed residential house is located in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. It is a Passive house Plus Enerphit project (net Zero) and includes a solar array on the roof. As… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2016-2018
This Passive House retrofit in Park Slope, Brooklyn, certified under the EnerPHit retrofit standards, was designed to maintain the home’s existing turn of the century brownstone façade and its existing… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2012
Location: Valatie, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
One of the first developments stemming from the East New York Neighborhood Plan, Chestnut Commons will provide 275 affordable housing units for formerly homeless and low-income households. Community-centric in both… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2021
Exterior Wall EIFS over EPS or XPS insulation Floor Polished poured Concrete Roof Polyiso insulation Window Frame Thermally broken aluminum Window Glazing Triple Glazed window Ug=0.088 Btu/hr/ft2 Entrance Door Triple… Read more »
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
Built in 1948, the 2-bedroom single-family Bronx home had no insulation. When asked to reconfigure it for a family with two young boys, it was clear to everyone that Passive… Read more »
Location: Bronx, New York
Year of Construction: 2019
Embracing and capitalizing upon the unique social, ecological, and physical contexts of the site and Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx, the mixed-use Melrose North provides approximately 170 new units of… Read more »
Location: Bronx, New York
Year of Construction: est. 2020
Location: Hudson, New York
Year of Construction: 2013
EnerPHit / PHI Low Energy Building Retrofit of Harlem Brownstone into 2 family residence with Penthouse.
Location: New York, New York
Year of Construction: 2019
Beach Green Dunes I and II is a sustainable and resilient housing development in Far Rockaway, Queens comprised of 228 affordable units within two buildings, each designed to Passive House… Read more »
Location: Far Rockaway, New York
Year of Construction: 2019
The site is located at the corner of East 181st (3111-35) in the Belmont section of the Bronx, NY. 2126 Mapes is R7-1 zoning. The lot area is 7,131 square… Read more »
Location: Bronx, New York
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This particular passive house is the result of the challenge BarlisWedlick Architects LLC set itself two years ago: to design a high-performance home that was both beautiful and quick to… Read more »
Location: Claverack, New York
Year of Construction: 2010
This single family, three-bedroom home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn emphasizes efficiency in its interior organization and approach to energy usage. The client’s interest in optimizing thermal comfort and minimizing energy consumption… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2017
The innovative eight-story, Third Avenue mixed-use development, with thirty units of affordable rental housing and an Early Development Center, is designed for Passive House and LEED Platinum, and will be… Read more »
Location: Bronx, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
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Location: Wurtsboro, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
The client came to River Architects eager to rethink the design of the existing 1970’s house with no insulation and unbearable drafts, but spectacular views of the Hudson River and… Read more »
Location: Cold Spring, New York
Year of Construction: 2016
North Miller Passive Multifamily honors Newburgh’s existing historic townhouses while delivering high-performance benefits of comfort, indoor air quality, and durability. The improved project will upgrade the building to Net Zero… Read more »
Location: Newburgh, New York
Year of Construction: 2019
This Passive House certified and affordable housing development called Dekalb Commons is currently in schematic design. When complete, it will bring two 7-story buildings and one 4-story building to Bedford… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction:
The DUMBO townhouses are five contemporary four bedroom, three bath townhouses with private parking, a garden and a roof terrace. These energy efficient townhouses were designed and built using passive… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction: 2015
Alteration & 2nd story addition to a 1947 ranch home to convert it to a 2-family residence.
Location: Millwood, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
Brooklyn brownstone retrofit with horizontal and vertical expansions, under construction – 50% completed, with insulated CMU blocks for new building envelope – other Passive House components include: Klearwall triple glazed… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction:
364 Clinton street is a four story plus cellar townhouse built in 1931. Prior to the current owner purchasing the house, it had extensive water damage on all floors. We… Read more »
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Construction:
Conversion of a former 1885 Quaker Meeting House into a 2-family affordable housing residence
Location: Chappaqua, New York
Year of Construction: 2016
This project is the first Cross Laminated Timber residential project in NY State. The experimental construction-efficient and low-energy house design utilized 42 CLT panels, replacing the thousands of components of… Read more »
Location: Cold Spring, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
Renovation of a 1880 masonry building, with brick “lean-to” and woodframed extension. The latter was rebuild, as well as the roof structure was rebuild to add living space and increase… Read more »
Location: Saugerties, New York
Year of Construction: 2014
We designed a modest, site-attuned dwelling to Passive House standards as an extension of the family’s homesteading commitment. Siting – The home occupies a small clearing pressed against a deep… Read more »
Location: Big Flats, New York
Year of Construction: 2017
What was formerly a vacant parcel at 4697 Third Avenue in the Bronx, will be transformed into a thriving affordable, sustainable mixed-use, mixed-income housing community. The project supports Mayor de Blasio’s goal to provide housing to a broad… Read more »
Location: Bronx, New York
Year of Construction:
Location: Ancramdale , New York
Year of Construction: 2019
For this PH renovation to succeed, all the facades would have to be improved, starting from the ground up. Fortunately, the foundation did not need to be dug out and… Read more »
Location: Bayville, New York
Year of Construction: 2011
Location: Hudson, New York
Year of Construction: 2014
New single family residence designed to meet the Passive House standard.
Location: Altamont, New York
Year of Construction: 2017
Very competitive construction financing was provided by NYCEEC (Fred Lee is a good contact). The property is a 1907 brick tenement building, which was in very poor condition. We submitted… Read more »
Location: Long Island City, New York
Year of Construction: 2016
Passive House Scarsdale new construction with advanced framing construction.
Location: Scarsdale, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
Prototype Low Energy Building in a flood zone in Long Island. This building features an inovative resilient design. It is designed to withstand extreme weather conditions witout loosing the ability… Read more »
Location: Freeport, New York
Year of Construction: 2017
Rochester Passive House, located in the rural setting of Honeoye Falls, NY, is certainly an example of how comfort is achieved though energy efficiency. The 270 m2 home’s traditional farmhouse… Read more »
Location: Honeoye Falls, New York
Year of Construction: 2016
The Bedford Passive House project is the first of its kind in this forward-thinking community. Bedford hopes to become a carbon-neutral community and has adopted energy codes that exceed those… Read more »
Location: Bedford, New York
Year of Construction: 2018
The 1880’s historic house that was located at this project site burned beyond repair in early July of 2014. “What is to become of the old house?” has been on… Read more »
Location: Cold Spring, New York
Year of Construction: 2017
Set in climate zone 6 we have R37 ICF walls, R20 under slab, and an R70 cellulose ceiling. Just 1 Fujitsu 9RLS3H for heating and cooling, Ultimate air 200dx for… Read more »
Location: Wurtsboro, New York
Year of Construction: 2017
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