Article: The Eco-Smart house: Six homes that work with nature to lift sustainabilitly to new heights

Holmes Magazine | February 2011

 Holmes Magazine article featuring the Breezeway House.

Book: Recreating the American Home: The Passive House Approach

Mary James | 2010

From steamy Louisiana to snowy Wisconsin, and from Brooklyn brownstones to western Marin County bungalows, Passive Houses are being created in a wide range of climate and building types across the United States. Recreating the American Home: The Passive House Approach by Mary James showcases 10 recently constructed Passive House projects across the country. With its mix of new construction and retrofit projects in a variety of climate types, Recreating the American Home provides concrete examples of elegant, energy-efficient housing solutions for architects, builders, and homeowners everywhere. As increasing numbers of Passive Houses get built, and more people experience the comfort and low energy bills that these homes deliver, the demand for Passive Houses will continue to grow. This book chronicles how architects, builders, and designers across the country can respond to their clients' requests for comfortable, greener, more energy-efficient homes-in short, for homes that help them create the future they want to live in.

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Article: Comfort Zone: Smart Designed for Pleasure and Planet

Sierra Magazine | Sept/Oct 2010

Architect Dave Brach with his concrete countertops and floors, which add to the Breezeway House's energy-storing thermal mass; solar shading graces the windows; hyper-attention to energy use makes the house hyper-comfortable; a shady maple and a photovoltaic system boost efficiency.

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Article: Passive Agressive, Getting Proactive About Energy-Efficiency Means Being Passive

Chesapeake Home & Living | August 2010

Architect Dave Brach's Certified PAssive House features plenty of windows for winter time solar gain.

Energy efficient, sustainable, housing means different things to different people. To some, it provides a way to live self sufficiently—off the grid. To others, it suggests a way to strike a balance with the natural environment. And yet to others, it offers the chance to watch the utility meter run in reverse and get paid by the utility company! But for the most part, the products and systems associated with sustainable housing come with price tags that sour the notion of building green. Now a green building standard called Passive House makes it possible to meet these expectations and more at a cost affordable to almost anyone in the market to build a custom home.

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Article: Passive House Utilizes Integrated HVAC, Solar System

Contractor Magazine | June 2010

MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP, UTAH — The Breezeway House, a passive 2,800-sq.ft. home located here, near Salt Lake City, was completed last December, taking approximately eight months to build. Since energy efficiency is at the heart of passive houses, many energy-efficient technologies and systems were used, including an efficient HVAC system with an energy recovery ventilator and a photovoltaic system.

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Article: High-tech design creates highly efficient home in Salt Lake

Deseret News | May 2010

... "We felt it was imperative to have (the new house) be a little more 'green,' and we wanted new and modern, open and spacious," Turner said.

Using those parameters, they enlisted the expertise of Salt Lake City architect David Brach, who specializes in net-zero energy building design and recently received certification as a passive home designer..

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Article: Urban Pioneers

American Homestyle and Gardening | September 1999

Mentioned in article as design team member and cabinet maker for the Campbell Residence renovation/addtion. Architect was Studio Concepcion Architects.

Article: Designed to Fit Right In

Better Homes & Gardens | March 2005

Mentioned in article as design team member and cabinet maker for Minneapolis kitchen renovation. Designed by Redlurered.

Article: Retro Fit

Midwest Home and Garden | Oct/Nov 2004

Mentioned in article as design team member and cabinetmaker for Minneapolis kitchen renovation. Designed by Redlurered.