Building a Future Friendly Home

Building a Future Friendly Home

You’re Invited to an Open House Sunday June 10 from 12 – 3PM   This Open House is a special opportunity to experience: A WHOLE NEW WAY OF BUILDING This Passive House design is fundamentally different from every house you know or have lived in. We’ll...

Oh, Behave!

We can engineer a building to use only as much energy as it produces. That’s pretty great isn’t it! We can also fill our pantries with healthy food, keep a bike outside our door to provide exercise and rely less on a car, and be friendly to our neighbors....

What Modern Means Now

My career began during the urban renaissance that took place in the 1970-80’s restoring the magnificent Victorian and Queen Anne homes that were once the “modern” homes of their day. These homes were built for the successful professionals and...
Adapt and Grow

Adapt and Grow

What happens when we are confronted with trauma in our lives, in our homes, in our communities, and in our businesses? Here are my recent experiences with that question, and what ends up being a surprising answer. A few weeks before most of Connecticut lost power last...

Nature’s Energy Audit

These days we are using blower doors and infrared cameras to measure and observe where and how our homes leak air and waste energy. We call this an Energy Audit and it helps us diagnose failures in a homes system of enclosure – the building...