Energy efficient construction standard now applied throughout the world
Passive House in Santa Cruz, California Darmstadt. Building owners throughout the world are increasingly turning to the Passive House Standard – the number of square metres that have been certified inter-nationally has now reached one million. The symbolic threshold was crossed with the certification of a detached house in Santa Cruz in California. Almost 25 years after the construction of a prototype house in Germany, tens of thousands of tenants and home owners benefit from the low heating costs and high level of comfort provided by Passive Houses.