We are pleased to share some exciting news from our home city — Denver, Colorado. In the City's efforts to push forward its 80x50 Climate Action Plan, and with the goal of Net Zero new construction by 2035, City Council…
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Highlights from the 2019 International Passive House Conference in Gaobeidian, China
How is Passive House growing and evolving outside the US? Enrico reported to the PHRM/NAPHN regional call on the state of the PH-sphere with regards to policies, projects, products and training in different continents around the world. With this being…
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A #BuildPassive Message for Mainstream America
As Passive House specialists, we often get chunked into a niche of the construction industry usually reserved for extreme "greenies" and mad scientists. However, it's interesting to see how mainstream America is having many of the same conversations we are…
Construction women unite at Denver’s Transportation Girls event.
Last week, Emu took part in an exciting event for women in the construction and transportation industries, the Transportation Girl Luncheon. Together with several other companies from our incredible co-working community, Tradecraft Industries, we sponsored a table at this luncheon…
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Darmstadt calling
This week we are busy in Darmstadt, Germany: Enrico just presented at the 20th International Passive House Conference, and he's currently taking his class to become a certified trainer with the International Passivhaus Institut.
Stay tuned for our articles on the Conference, and about our training programme in Italy and Colorado.
FensterBau 2016 in Nuremberg
Last week we went to Nuremberg, Germany, for the 2016 edition of FensterBau, one of the most important expos worldwide for window production.
Target of the fair is the entire sector of windows and openings. The event is organized alongside the Holz-Handwerk expo, addressing wood carpentry in the broadest sense.
Passive House Days in Cavriago: a great success
On Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th, our construction site in Cavriago was open to the public for the International Passive House Days. On Friday 13th, the local Scuola Edile visited us for a class on energy efficiency. The event was…
International Passive House Days in Cavriago, Italy
The International Passive House Days are an event organized by the Passivhaus Institut, to publicize what a passive house is, and to let people “touch” the state of the art of construction in terms of comfort and energy efficiency.
This year, we take part to the event with our Cavriago project, where we are currently building two single-family passive houses: our construction site is going to be open to the public on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th.
Discovering Colorado, the cradle of passive houses
A few weeks ago, for professional reasons we visited Denver, Boulder, Aspen and surrounding areas, in Colorado. At the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in the hearth of the United States, this region saw some of the very first passive…
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Our impressions from the 2015 Int’l Passivhaus Conference in Leipzig, Germany
A couple of weeks ago we went to Leipzig, Germany, to take part in the 19th International Passivhaus Conference, organized by the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt. With approximately one thousand people attending from all over the world, this event marks the gathering of some of the AEC sector's greatest experts on energy efficiency. The following are our impressions from the event...