January 12, 2015
Kala
Lake Quivira Passive House - Project Walkthrough
Virtual Walkthrough of the LQ Passive House
We are excited to bring the first Passive House retrofit project to Kansas City! In this video, David Schleicher gives us a tour of the home in Lake Quivira, KS, explains the changes that will be made to the home during construction, and the techniques and difficulties faced to get this home to the Passive House standard.
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Though they enjoyed living in a house in the historic Brookside neighborhood, Kyle and Elizabeth decided they wanted to build a new home that used high-performance features to deliver better durability, health, sustainability, and comfort.
The main purpose of building code is to ensure a home doesn't burn down, fall down, or suffer catastrophic failure to its main systems - not to ensure durability.
Of all the things that can damage a home, water is by far the most pervasive and destructive. And when we say water, we don’t just mean the water that falls from the sky as rain.
