Zero Energy Buildings

Source: architectural-review.com

Just K, Zero Energy House by Architekten Martenson und Nagel Theissen, Tübingen, Germany. Winner of AR House 2011. Read the article from The Architectural Review July 2011.

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Source: Boston Redevelopment Authority

Boston launched “Energy Positive” Program to promote new generation of green home building in the city. A request for proposal was released in March 2011. The city announced that the responses is being exhibited at Boston Architectural College from August 27 -- September 25, 2011.

Read a post from Utile's Blog about the Results.

Seattle Building Aims to Be a "Green" Giant

in Seattle, where groundbreaking began Monday on a six-story building billed as the greenest commercial building on earth. The Bullitt Center -- which eventually will use only its own rainwater, generate its own power and compost its own sewage -- is the first big office building designed to carry its own environmental weight. -- Architectural Record News 8/30/2011.

The Net Zero Energy Building Certification or the NZE

Home grown and local green right here from Seattle - the non-profit organization - formerly known as the Living Building Institute (until April of this year), ILFI now manages the Living Building Challenge program; the Cascadia Green Building Council, a green building advocacy group for builders in the Northwest, British Columbia, and Alaska.  --  Green Goddess

Cornell’s NYC Tech Campus drives towards “Net-Zero Energy”

Cornell University’s proposed New York City Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island plans to become a sustainable landmark. Oriented by the sun, the 10-acre campus encompasses the largest solar array in New York City, four acres of geothermal wells, and 500,000 square-feet of open green space dedicated to the public. If built today, the campus’s 150,000 square-foot main academic building would be the largest net-zero energy building in the eastern United States.  -- ArchDaily

A Competition for Zero Net Energy Urban Architecture

ARCHITECTURE AT ZERO is an international open ideas competition with a focus on the specific challenges of creating urban zero net energy (ZNE) buildings. The competition seeks creative and feasible approaches to urban ZNE building to broaden the conversation around how a site zero net energy project will be approached now and in the future. Further, it seeks to raise the profile of ZNE building among built-environment professionals, students, and the general public in California and beyond. Submissions are due November 29 at 1:00 pm. -- AIA San Francisco

California Aims for Net-Zero Energy for Housing by 2020

Sustainable housing comes in all shapes and sizes, and by 2020 California hopes that all of its new housing projects will benefit from net-zero energy consumption. The groups responsible for establishing this goal are California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission who derive the authority to prepare such a goal under the Global Warming Solutions Act, better known as AB32, which requires that the state reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. -- ArchDaily

Source: jetsongreen.com

Traditional Style NZE Homes in Maryland

Traditional home styles plus a net-zero building standard is a winning combination in the Homes at North Pointe development in Frederick, Maryland.

North Pointe was a dormant development whose design pattern was set when developer NEXUS EnergyHomes, Inc., adopted the project.

Strategies for reaching net-zero and Emerald certification at North Pointe include ground source geothermal heat pumps, photovoltaic panels, SIPs walls supplemented by spray foam insulation, and super-tight air sealing. A whole-house monitoring system, called NexusVision™, tracks energy production and consumption, and can show this information to the homeowner via the web or smartphone and tablet applications.  -- Jetson Green