Cold Climate Passive Home 101

Recording of a presentation by Thorsten Chlupp at the Passive House conference in Silver Springs, Maryland in October 2011 (http://www.passivehouse.us)

Limitations to Solutions for PH buildings in our cold northern regions. Lessons learned from building solar heated homes at Latitude 64. What are the technical limitations, and how to overcome the hurdles of a cold climate in high efficiency buildings. Understanding the importance of windows: what glazing to choose, adding thermal shutters and calculating and modeling them in PHPP07 -- and integrating them into buildings. Ventilation and supplemental heating strategies; Best practices for cold climates, tips and tricks from hard learned lessons building in the Arctic...

More info:
Cold Climate Housing Research Center - www.cchrc.org
REINA, LLC - www.reina-llc.com