Katie Henry, Author at AE Building Systems https://aebuildingsystems.com/author/aebu1ldadmin/ High Performance Building Materials Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:28:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://aebuildingsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo1-100x100.png Katie Henry, Author at AE Building Systems https://aebuildingsystems.com/author/aebu1ldadmin/ 32 32 What is Passive House? https://aebuildingsystems.com/what-is-passive-house/ Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:23:15 +0000 https://aebuildingsystems.com/?p=1298 Passive House or PassivHaus – The Comfort of Energy Efficiency Passive House (or PassivHaus in Europe) is an energy efficiency standard that was developed in Germany but has its foundation in North America. The goal of Passive House is to reduce the energy required to heat a building by 70-80%, relative to current code-built buildings. […]

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]]> The Quality of Air https://aebuildingsystems.com/the-quality-of-air/ Mon, 07 Sep 2015 20:19:42 +0000 http://aebuildingsystems.com/beta/?p=1 The focus of AE Building Systems over the years has been the building envelope. We have concentrated on this specific part of the building with the conviction that most issues related to green building start with a well designed and executed wall assembly. In fact AE has predicated its entire business on this basic idea. […]

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]]> The Independant Power of Elon Musk https://aebuildingsystems.com/the-independant-power-elon-musk/ Fri, 15 May 2015 21:48:20 +0000 http://aebuildingsystems.com/beta/?p=45 Just last week Elon Musk announced that Tesla would be producing the next great advancement in battery storage. Until now, battery storage for Photovoltaic Systems were costly, unreliable and required a large amount of space. That has all changed with the Powerwall. For only $3500 anyone can now purchase a 10kw storage system that will […]

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]]> Bringing it all together https://aebuildingsystems.com/bringing-it-all-together/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 21:23:57 +0000 http://aebuildingsystems.com/beta/?p=89 AE Building started out with the simple idea of filling a void in the building industry by providing high performance, energy efficient building products. Since that time we have expanded our reach by becoming building envelope experts, consulting with our clients on the many decisions required to develop a high performance wall assembly. We have […]

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