October 31, 2012 A Passive House Is Put to the Test in the
United States In 2007, project planning began on a house built
to the Passive House (PH) standard, in Urbana, Illinois. The
project was initiated by the Ecological Construction Laboratory
(e-co lab), a nonprofit community housing development
organization interested in bringing the PH standard to the
United States. It became a joint research effort when IBACOS was
brought in to lead instrumentation and monitoring through DOE’s
Building America program. (For more information, see “About
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