Two Net Zero Passive Houses Are State-of-the-Art on 2015 Green Home Tour
Summary
At their most primal level, courtyards provide sanctuary and calm as an antidote to our overcomplicated world.” Kevin Murphy, the owner of Newphire Building and a Certified Passive House Builder, built Happy Meadows.The Happy Meadows water gardens provide homes for frogs and other species, which are in critical decline as they suffer from more and more habitat loss from development.” Designed to be net positive with the addition of more solar panels in the future, the house will produce enough excess energy to charge an electric car.Bright in the winter and cool and shady in the summer, it was built by Anchorage Building Corp. “We are in the house and it is wonderful,” Aaron Fleischauer told the Chapel Hill News in August.The Happy Meadows water gardens provide homes for frogs and other species, which are in critical decline as they suffer from more and more habitat loss from development.”Designed to be net positive with the addition of more solar panels in the future, the house will produce enough excess energy to charge an electric car.Bright in the winter and cool and shady in the summer, it was built by Anchorage Building Corp.“We are in the house and it is wonderful,” Aaron Fleischauer told the Chapel Hill News in August.