Continuing the run of collaborations from Californian prefab home ... Passive House certification in modular units is an accomplishment: Integrating the high degree of insulation, proper solar ...

CA was the first State in the US to make solar panels ... aspects of the home, such as site location, sustainability, materials, water efficiency and so on, Passive House (PH) only focuses ...

Mod.Fab is a project at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture aimed at designing a prefab home that’s both elegant and enables sustainable living in a desert environment. BY Kit Eaton ...

It’s wonderful to see the popularity of prefabricated ... features including passive solar design and a greywater system. Constructed from shipping containers, the homes would be retro-fitted ...

Swedish firm Street Monkey Architects has unveiled new solar-powered, prefabricated modular homes in Örebro ... near Stockholm that was built using passive house principles but designed to ...

But smart use of solar energy starts with passive solar techniques, according to Colorado architect Thomas Doerr, whose new book, Easily Design a Truly Green Home for Colorado and the West ...

Around that time I was in the prefab biz and met Steve Glenn, who was just starting Living Homes; we covered it when the photos were just a bit bigger. He and Geoffrey Warner, founder of Alchemy ...