About Us

Welcome to Northern Virginia e+ Home web site.  The purpose of our site is to provide information and resources about the construction of a LEED and Passive House homes in an effort to promote, advance, and accelerate the adoption of green home-building practices nationally.

The unique features of this home that sets it apart from typical green building is in the innovative design and integration of multiple energy conserving and energy producing technologies, which project that this home will produce more energy annually than it consumes.  Some of the unique feature are:

• Passive Solar Design:  solar orientation, window shading, and tubular and angled-wing design
• Active Solar Technologies:  fixed photovoltaic panels
• Super-insulation: minimized thermal bridging in walls, roofs, and slab, passive house certified windows, insulated fiberglass doors
• Airtight Building Envelope:  gaskets around window  and doors, concrete slab vapor barrier, muti-point door locks
• Thermal Conditioning: geothermal heat pumps, hydronic heat pump for hot water
• Ventilation: energy recovery ventilator (ERV) with humidity control