In Balance Green Consulting and Cairn Collective recently teamed up with Santa Barbara AIA to host an hour-long virtual hard hat tour of Bishop Passive House. For an up close look at insulation, windows, ventilation, monitoring and more, check out the Bishop Passive Housing Virtual Hard Hat Tour video.

In typical construction on the Central Coast, our building envelopes are rather leaky. Leaks around windows, sill plates, roof and ceiling penetrations, you name it. This is great if you think having a building “breathe” is important for fresh indoor air. But, when that “fresh” air is coming from your crawl space, from a stud bay, or perhaps your attic, it starts feeling less fresh fast.

Mike Horgan’s Passive House project was the subject of a recent article in the New Times. Take look!