Insulating a Passive House Build

January 18, 2023

This Canmore single family home is designed and being built to be Certified Passive House Classic! Bow Crow Design designed the building and HSS is completing the build.

At HSS, we specialize in applying Passive House design principles to our builds. If you’re curious how we set the building up for energy-efficient success, it starts at (or actually beneath) the building’s foundations. Watch as HSS Principal Raph walks through the layers of insulation used around the foundations here in Canmore.

Insulating the Foundations for a Passive House build in Canmore

Wall layers mentioned in the video:

1) ICF

2) Concrete Wall

3) EPS (13”)

4) Roxul

5) EPS Skirt Insulation (4” EPS, 8’ out from the wall)