Category: Passive
A home is only as sustainable as the materials used in its construction and the components on which it runs. At Clarum Homes, we care deeply about sustainability. In fact, our core purpose is to transform the way you live by creating greater comfort, greater health, and greater environmental sustainability. Our...
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The Clarum Vision: Transforming the Building Industry
Posted by on October 8, 2012 | Categories: Passive, Passive Home
What does it mean to build a green home? What’s the future of passive building? How does Clarum Home fit into the overall picture of home construction? Meet John Suppes (Clarum’s President) and Sean Misskelley (Director of Construction), discussing these and other questions. Clarum Homes...
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Upcoming Events – Come Join Us!
Posted by on October 2, 2012 | Categories: Passive, Passive Home
Come see the Palo Alto Passive Home! October is a busy month for Passive Homes! Please join us at one of our several upcoming events. All events include our newest Palo Alto Passive Home, 1510 Portola Avenue. Please note that parking is limited; please consider parking at Palo Alto High School on Churchill...
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What Does a High-Performance Home Cost? Of course, it’s impossible to estimate the cost of any home without knowing all the variables, such as size and style. However, there are general patterns. "People are often surprised to learn that a high-performance home only costs 5-10% more than its conventionally-built...
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What does it mean when a house is LEED certified? LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. It is an internationally recognized, third-party rating system for green building design – a standard we're very familiar with here at Clarum. The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)...
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One of the most integral components of the passive house is an air tight building envelope. The blower door test can identify leaks in the building envelope very early on in construction. At Palo Alto Passive, we conducted the blower door test prior to the installation of drywall and then again after...
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We’ve all driven down the street and seen the remnants of those unattractive black panels on roof tops of “days gone by” solar hot water heating systems. Many of those older units were intended to heat swimming pools, and the results were mixed. Modern solar hot water heating systems are nothing...
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How Airtight Are Your Doors and Windows? If your house is like most conventional buildings, your windows and doors are not energy efficient. In most cases, outdated or failing doors and windows waste a remarkable amount of a home’s energy – up to 30%! To put that in perspective – according...
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Solar Tubes: Feel Better, Spend Less Humans are phototropic. That’s the scientific way to describe how we respond to light: we’re instinctively drawn to it. In a well lit place, we feel at ease, calm and alert; in dim light, we feel off, we have trouble focusing or working; given time we may even...
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Heat Recovery Ventilation: Stop Throwing Heat Away One of the keys to a healthy home is a steady supply of fresh, clean air, especially when you are taking extreme measures to create an energy-efficient home with air/moisture moisture barriers and outsulation. At the Palo Alto Passive Home, our answer...
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