World’s biggest “passive house” office buildinghttps://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/boston-skyscraper-named-worlds-biggest-passive-house-officehttps://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/12/winthrop-center-in-boston-named-worlds-largest-passive-house/DOE’s “Affordable Home Energy Shot” and other housing emissions reductions initiatives of the Biden administrationhttps://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/21/fossil-free-100-affordable-housing-can-mean-residents-have-no-utility-bills/Cement and carbon black as a supercapacitor and a building materialhttps://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a44716956/scientists-make-supercapacitor-out-of-cement/hat tip Andrew Tobias"Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology"https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/half-europes-family-homes-could-be-energy-self-sufficient-solar-and-storage-reportReport (in German): https://www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2023_088_energiewende-energieautark-im-einfamilienhaus.phpFlood resistant homes from bamboohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2023/flood-resistant-home-bamboo/Use https://archive.ph/14gDa to get past the paywallEditorial Comment: this is not necessarily net zero energy building but could be and could also be adapted to the rest of the world, urban and ruralAll electric sustainable skyscraper in Brooklynhttps://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/24/a-sustainable-skyscraper-grows-in-brooklyn-thanks-to-alloy/Geos net zero energy community in Coloradohttps://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/this-colorado-community-is-already-living-in-the-all-electric-futurehat tip to Jennifer HillJennifer Hill also pointed me toKaupuni Village in Hawaiihttps://g70.design/project/kaupuni-village/https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/53401.pdfLiving Zenith in Utahhttps://livingzenith.com/Red Fox Crossing in Wisconsinhttps://www.probuilder.com/wisconsins-first-net-zero-communityHillside East in Vermonthttps://hillsidevt.com/energy-resiliency/Building passively cooled schools in Burkina Fasohttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat

Source: The Guardian March 06, 2024 01:09 UTC