[Greenbuilding] EnerGuide 96 home in Bathurst NB

[Gordon Howell -- Howell Mayhew Engineering]

Interesting Energuide 96 Home in Bathurst New 
Brunswick  <http://ecoplushome.com>  The house has a ground source 
heat pump, 12 kW PV system, and a solar thermal system.  The house is 
a manufactured unit that was built in about 4 or 5 modules and 
trucked to the site.  The walls in the house are only R25; thus the 
large amount of PV plus the ground source heat pump.  Bathurst has 
about 5000 annual heating Kelvin-degree days.  The company has a 
corporate tie with Bosch; thus some Bosch appliances are used.  The 
company plans to build additional units in Moncton and Halifax.

This sounds like a very clear example of what the PH people are 
concerned about -- a house with nominal energy efficiency plus lots 
of heating toys.

It will be great seeing how well the house works and how much it cost 
and adding it to a list of PassivHaus, NZE and near NZE houses across 
the country showing performance and costs.  A 12 kW PV system would 
likely cost $70k to start...

It would be interesting to work with a local builder there to build 
highly-efficient NZE and PH houses as a competitive comparison.

+Gordon Howell

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Gordon Howell, P.Eng.
Grid-Connected Solar PV Electric Systems
Howell-Mayhew Engineering, Inc.
Edmonton
Phone : +1 780 484 0476
E-mail: ghowell at hme.ca
Web   : www.hme.ca
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