As part of our Sidewalk Talk Idea Tour on Energy Efficient Neighborhoods (12/13/17), Blake Middleton, a founding partner at Handel Architects, discussed how passive house design, a performance-based protocol, can make a dramatic impact in terms of building energy use and efficiency — even at the scale of large multi-family buildings.
Blake oversaw the design of the largest residential Passive House in the world at Cornell Tech, and explains how the lessons learned from that groundbreaking project are informing his firm’s implementation of high-performance design in various large-scale projects, including an affordable housing complex in Harlem and a large-scale office environment in Boston.
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