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Introducing INTELLO X: The Smart Airtightness & Vapor Control Choice for...

We’re very excited to introduce INTELLO X as the next generation – improved to take a beating in unforgiving environments, like the job site of commercial construction projects. Culture Shed on...

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Experience the Future: Visit a Passive House during International Passive...

You’ve heard of Passive House. You’ve noticed a Passive House job site near you.  Or you’ve read about the growing number of Passive House buildings in magazines, newspapers and blog posts. Now you can...

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Passive House at Full Speed in NYC

We’ve been active in helping incubate the Passive House movement across the continent with particular emphasis on our home turf of New York City.  And the signs of of activity have been encouraging –...

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Nature Does it Best: GUTEX Wood Fiberboard Insulation

 Wood you like continuous insulation? GUTEX has produced insulating fiberboards from wood for over 85 years. Today, GUTEX is a leader in innovative, environmentally-friendly manufacturing. GUTEX uses a...

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Installer Spotlight: American Installations

Innovation in insulation installation… try saying that five times fast. American Installations rolling up to the job site. Ventilated Rotary Nozzle on the cellulose blower. Cardboard strips used as...

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475 On-Site: Frack-Free Housing With Bright Common Architecture

We love the work of Bright Common Architecture in Philadelphia. Not only do they do great work, they have taken our banner of Foam-Free building a step further, developing the term “frack-free...

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How Many Blower Door Fans Does It Take to Test a 26 Story Tower?

Blower door test being completed on June 3rd. Ten? Nine? Eight? Seven? Six? Five? Four? Three? Two? If it’s the Certified Passive House at Cornell Tech? Just one. This astonishing fact is one of the...

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Best of Off-Label Uses: Part 4

Life is never steady state. Things get broken and patched along the way, and when we need a quick solution, we go to what works simply and easily. That’s why people love using Pro Clima tape for all...

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Installing High Performance BEWISO Windows In A Historic Brooklyn Home

The solution for comfort, efficiency, and silence in a historic Brooklyn brownstone building Ben Leer, Daylighting Specialist from 475 High Performance Building Supply, demonstrates the details of a...

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475 Tape Performance Lab: Underwater Tape Test

Welcome to the 475 Tape Performance Lab (aka our Brooklyn HQ presentation room). We ask a lot of our tape. It airseals the junctions between the components in our high performance assemblies, helps...

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ZeroEnergy Design: Prioritizing Building Envelope Resilience

This post was written in a collaboration between 475 and ZeroEnergy Design ZeroEnergy Design (ZED) is one of the northeast’s leaders in high performance residential design. A self-described “modern...

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Why Smart Cities Need Passive House Buildings

Passive House is the best building standard to bring the physical infrastructure of the smart city up to the level of the digital infrastructure. Thanks to Sidewalk Labs’ announcement of their massive...

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475 Tape Performance Lab: Tapes, Primers and Pressurization

Welcome back to the 475 Tape Performance Lab (aka our Brooklyn HQ presentation room). Check out last month’s experiment: Underwater Tape Test. We ask a lot of our tape. It airseals the junctions...

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Reason Foam Fails #8 – Hypersensitive On-Site Manufacturing

The construction industry has been making more and more building parts in the factory – through panelization, modular construction and complex component fabrication. Factories are great at providing...

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2017 Year in Review

While 2017 was a miserable year for many obvious reasons, we were fortified by the growth of high performance construction projects and awareness. From significant policy achievements in places like...

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What’s 475 About – Reflections for a New Year (2018)

This article was first posted January 1, 2017.  With each New Year we’ll revisit and update/edit as we see appropriate – keeping our sense of mission and values front and center. When people ask what...

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475 On-Site: Gramercy Passive House with ChoShields Studio

In Cho, principal of the New York architecture firm ChoShields Studio, gave us a thorough rundown of the firm’s recently completed Passive House project in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan. The...

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Introduction to Lightway – Next Generation of Solar Tubes

Daylighting our building interiors has many well-known benefits – as it makes us healthier and more productive at work, school, and home.  What could be better? Lightway tubes light up a hallway in a...

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Artwork Sees The Light Of Day In Red Hook, Brooklyn

High performance engineering has landed on the rooftop of the latest art gallery in Red Hook, Brooklyn. 475 was excited to provide these high performance, custom-sized, triple-glazed Lamilux FE...

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In the PHI Lab and In the Field: INTELLO Tests Tightest

Pro Clima’s INTELLO airtight system proven by Certification of the Passive House Institute and at the University of Northern British Columbia. INTELLO Plus testing. Photo Credit: PHI KAFLEX &...

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