Prescott Passive House
Designed to reduce building energy consumption for heating and cooling by 90 percent by using super-insulation, a virtually airtight building shell, broad southern exposure, and an energy recovery ventilator. Gold Bond® eXP® Interior Extreme® Fire-Shield® Gypsum Panels were installed on the project.
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Category
Interior
LEED
Single-Family
Region
Southwest
Project
Prescott Passive House
Prescott, KS
Architect
Studio 804 - University of Kansas
Engineer
Norton & Schmidt Consulting Engineers, LLC
North Kansas City, Missouri
Designed to use minimal energy through affordable, passive means, this 1,700-square-foot house in the Prescott, Kansas, neighborhood, is just minutes from downtown Kansas City. To achieve its goal of a 90-percent reduction in heating and cooling costs, strategies including louvers, thermal mass, high-performance windows, super insulation, southern orientation and an airtight building envelope were employed.
Gold Bond® eXP® Interior Extreme® Fire-Shield® Gypsum Panels were installed on the project. In addition to LEED Platinum Certification, Studio 804 achieved Passive House Certification for the project.
