Tag: Affordable Housing
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Western Mass Passive House Forum
⚡⚡ This is a free, in-person event in Northampton, MA ⚡⚡ Register Here Join Passive House Massachusetts for an afternoon of professional learning and community connection. This forum is designed to bring the Western Massachusetts high performance community together to explore field-tested research and a local project case study, followed by an afternoon networking reception.…
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Affordable Infill at Scale
High-performance sustainable design is entirely doable on an affordable budget, and the team behind the Norwell Street infill project in Dorchester—developed as part of the City’s Welcome Home Boston initiative—is ready to show you how they are pulling it off. This case study explores the development of three small multifamily quadplexes, demonstrating how they maximized…
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Introduction to the Bunker Hill Passive House Redevelopment
If you have ever driven through Bunker Hill in Boston, you may have noticed the rows and rows of brick, block-like buildings crowded together. These buildings were built before the end of WWII – which may not be unusual for Boston – but without proper maintenance they are completely falling apart, and may resemble prisons…