Get your mind out of the gutter! In Northern California, this is the month when construction picks up again. The tax payments of April are forgotten, projects are started or contemplated, and things appear to have limitless potential.

OK, it rained most of the month and my crew gave me a wide berth. I am an intense and passionate guy - my intent is to meet or beat schedules and budgets. May saw progress but not enough. The scope of work left has to do with the "frosting or the finish work of the house. As a company we excel at this phase of work. In fact, the goal is to have a finished product that Sunset Magazine would be proud to advocate. The potential for attractive well designed houses and remodels to meet the Passive House Standard in California is limitless.

We started giving tours of the project twice a day on Fridays to anybody that will listen to THE PASSIVE HOUSE MESSAGE. What's the message? In Northern California you can build a building that uses 80% less energy for heating and cooling, throw-out the AC and the furnace, have a more durable building, and excellent air quality for 5%-10% more up front.

Conduit and cables for Department of Energy monitoring for their Building America
Program.  The O'Neill retrofit has been selected as a "prototype" home and will
be monitored via computer by the Davis Energy Group to determine and verify
its performance.
 

Passive House is applied building science. It has a twenty year track record in Europe. The buildings' performance have been monitored and the results verified. It is not green bullshit. Passive House is about Better Buildings.