First Certified Passive House in the Wood River Valley!
Certified Passive Houses are one-of-a-kind. They require a total commitment from the owners, the architect and the builder. It’s all to common for me to get a phone call that someone wants to build a Passive House…but by the time they begin design they waffled down to “it’ll be a just as good but…” Often by the time the house is finished it’s just a code-built house.
This is part of what made this Hailey, Idaho certified Passive House so special. The whole team drank the proverbial kool-aid, and when value-engineering was required it was done without sacrifice to the building envelope or energy systems.
How did this home get there?
- CPHC (Certified Passive House Consultant) and Architect Scott Yribar provided a design and energy model. https://www.vyarch.com/
- Lane McCauley put it all together.
- Energy Seal of Idaho (Skylar Swinford, Passive House Guru) insulated and commissioned the ventilation system. https://www.energyseal.net/
- CPHR (Certified Passive House Rater) John Reuter provided third-party checks, documentation, incentive processing and testing
What’s in the house?
- Thoroughly insulated slab on grade
- Double stud wall assembly
- Conditioned, thermal bridge free attic
- Triple pane windows
- Air-tight construction
- Air-source heat pump heating and cooling
- Heat pump water heating
- Zhender Ventilation system
- Solar PV Energy generation
- a partridge and a pear tree.
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