http://www.harrisonarchitects.com Harrison Architects: Lyrical Sustainable Design Yesterday, preservation rock-stars Preservation Green Lab released the results of a http://www.preservationnation.org/issues/sustainability/green-lab/... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:43:00 -0800 http://harrisonarchitects.com/blog/passive_house/the_greenest_building_retrofit_or_passive_house If the Bullitt Foundation's Cascadia Center Living Building had been designed to meet Passivhaus, it would have needed only two-thirds of the on-site-generated energy of the current design to reach net-zero. In other wo... Wed, 18 May 2011 00:09:00 -0700 http://harrisonarchitects.com/blog/passive_house/passivhaus_could_have_made_bullitt_foundation_livingbuilding_35%_more_energy_intelligent The Passivhaus approach can be implemented when retrofitting existing buildings as well as when building new ones. Heating energy use in an existing building can be reduced to 10% of what it w... Sat, 08 Jan 2011 19:57:00 -0800 http://harrisonarchitects.com/blog/passive_house/the_chainsaw_retrofit This Thursday the Joseph Vance Building is having its annual Open House, the Tour de Vance! We, along with 25 other progressive organizations, will open our doors for a building-wide party! We're going to call this our "office warming"! Ple... Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:02:00 -0800 http://harrisonarchitects.com/blog/heads_up/tour_de_vance  On April 29th of 2009, over on Grist, David Roberts posted an article on Energy Efficiency and Sex. Have a look.... In t... Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:57:00 -0800 http://harrisonarchitects.com/blog/musings/energy_and_resource_intelligence