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This is the third of four posts delving into high performance wall assembly. This one explains our approach at the Glasswood Passive House Retrofit.

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With the wood framed walls well underway now, I thought it was high time that I sat down to write a post about the design and theory behind the wall system we are using. When we set out to build our project, I spent a lot of time thinking about double stud wall construction. For those unfamiliar, a

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High performance builder explains lessons learned over six different Passive House projects. Get a detailed look at Passive House wall assemblies.

This is the third post in our series on Passive House Design. If you missed either of the previous, click on the links below to get up to speed! LEAP's

Editor's Note: Lyndon Than is a professional engineer and Certified Passive House Consultant who took a year off from work to design and build a home with his wife Phi in North York, a district of Toronto, Ontario. This is the first in a series of posts about the project, beginning with the start of construction in early 2012. Than describes the process in his blog, Passive House Toronto.

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Bay-Side push-out casement window Friday we received delivery of our windows and, except for a few exceptions, we're almost all installed. Keep in mind this house is used mostly in the winter - and all the heat for the house comes entirely from a wood stove. As such - it's very important to capture as much passive solar heating as we can during the winter months. So window detailing and layout was something we spent a lot of time and energy on during the house design. After a lot of testing…

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