Passive Architecture Design #99 | Ecocor - Prefabricated Passive House | Searsmont, Maine

Ecocor is a construction firm that designs, manufactures, delivers and assembles high performance buildings throughout North America.

Ecocor’s patent pending foundation and wall designs reduce energy consumption for heating and cooling buildings by 80-90%, which substantially reduces the cost of ownership and the building’s carbon footprint, while increasing the comfort of its owners. Using panelized building components as a construction platform, Ecocor has better control, higher quality and much shorter time-to-occupancy than any site-built construction.

Prefab is a construction method where both standardized and non-standardized building components are fabricated in a factory and assembled on site. Combine the prefab construction method with the Passive House standard and you have the most energy efficient building technology available today built in a factory to the highest quality and delivered in a fraction of the time it takes to build a new home using traditional site built construction.

"Passive House" is today's most energy efficient building standard. Buildings that meet the Passive House standard use 80% less energy for heating and cooling than conventional buildings yet are markedly more comfortable and healthy than traditional buildings. A Passive House conserves energy by creating a virtually air-tight, super insulated, compact building enclosure that uses the sun and heat emanating from people and equipment to achieve a comfortable indoor environment. A ventilation system including what is called a heat recovery ventilator or HRV is used to provide a continuous supply of filtered fresh air.

In this film, we look at the manufacturing process that goes into making prefabricated passive house standard homes.

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[timonaszukauskas]

Finally something that is right direction.

[alanr]

This is fantastic. As a former manufacturing planner, engineer, and inventory analyst, who is now more-than-casually-studying better home design, passivhaus, and alternative energy, I would thoroughly enjoy working for you guys if you expand to say...central Alabama. :D

Great work gents!

[frankgall]

The future!! I LOVE HOME PERFORMANCE and BUILDING SCIENCE!!

[ElrondBurrell]

Love what Chris & Richard are doing.

[pascalsutterlin]

Love that butterfly tabel we got similar Standart here in Germany. Looks pretty neat workwise great tools keps work easy and clean for the builders. Would love to see a video from the work sites.

[Majoofi]

I want to see one of the houses assembled on site. Is the foundation traditional? How are the pieces put together?

[harrisonyoung]

Ecodor needs to mass produce these. Great ideas here

[renepouliot]

Very impressive, I may have mist it but did you describe how you avoid thermal bridging? Great job all home should be better insulated.

[Greggspies]

Great to watch, makes our UK construction look positively stoneage, my house is a leaky draughty brick built gas waster. When I win the lottery I'm investing in one

[ML-lgky]

Looks like a well thought out and executed plan there. Good job

[max]

I think straw bale is the lowest embody energy insulation material in the market?

[twanncanady]

Can this method be used for recycle plastic homes if so I am interested looking to build a eco friendly city 1day

[JoshVanDerWood]

Very impressive! Building next year, would love this! Too bad I am on the other side of the country. Shipping probably not feasible.

[MichaelWarbux]

This is how I would want to build my house. I would want to use heavy insulation and break-resistant storm windows. They have a high e-value as well as the triple pane. Doing some research on them now. Also, it's ".us" not ."com" for their site.

[siriosstar]

It is possible to NOT have an air to air heat exchanger, simply by tilting a few windows for a couple of minutes, in the morning and evening. However, it would probably be a good idea to install a dehumidifier for the winter. My house is 13.5 cm thick logs or blocks as they are known in europe and 14 cm of wood fiber insulation from the Steico company with furring strips over the rigid insulation and wood siding over that. The windows are triple T& T wood frames that are painted . i'm thinking of trying a dehumidifier this winter to reduce condensation on the windows during super cold days. Anyway very nice video, good camera work and devoid of unnecessary rambling . 😜

[silviofontana]

air leaks, we simply dont do enough, Insulation fit out and the attention to quality and R rating, we simply skimp on this inexpensive important solution, sealing all joins, simply overlooked, single glazed windows, simply in effective, all this is standard practise in any Australian home. Wall wraps are installed and they all fail to be effective, all in any Australian home. So Sad our standards are so, so low. And to top it all, we are crazy mad on resolving climate change, but pay no attention to how our houses are built.

[solarheat]

Instead of using triple pane windows imported from Europe I would use double pane American windows with honeycomb insulated blinds to hold the heat in at night.