Queen Mary Passive House

A Frank Lloyd Wright inspired design for this certified Passive House. We built this house for a wonderful couple who are Passive House enthusiasts. This home is another great example of how a Passive House can be built with no compromises. This home boasts an abundance of natural light with oversized windows, a beautiful sunroom, custom stairs made from steel plate suspended off the exterior wall and an elevator. This is the first Passive House we have built with in-floor radiant heat which was a huge success and we installed solar panels to make this home certify as a Passive House Plus! Photos by Peter Powles and Alpine Media Productions.

Sustainable Highlights:

•      Air-tightness rating of 0.23 air changes per hour (ACH)
•      Insulated concrete foundation, Nurdura XR35, first install West of Ontario
•      Pre-fabricated, pre-insulated wall and roof structure by BC Passive House
•      15” thick exterior walls with an R-value of R-47
•      Airtight and vapour controlling SIGA building envelope system
•      Optiwin triple pane high performance windows from Austria
•      Magnetic induction electric cooktop
•      Electric heat pump condensing clothes dryer
•      AltSource T2 electric boiler for domestic hot water & radiant floor heating
•      Zehnder ComfoAir Q600 heat recovery ventilator
•      LED lighting
•      Solar panels tied to a net metering system for energy generation credits

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