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Passive house designs have existed for decades and are gaining popularity again, as their construction can help mitigate ...

Several of these follow the principles of passive home design. To qualify officially as a passive house ... that aluminum-framed windows are more resilient than vinyl frames,” he adds.

Those design choices include a simple facade, with no eaves or overhangs where embers can catch on, reinforced windows ... timber,” he said. For fire-prone regions, another benefit of passive ...

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Second, the airtightness of the envelope, which includes reinforced windows ... like heavy timber,” he said. For fire-prone regions, another benefit of passive house construction is that ...

Los Angeles’s Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this month, with their structure losses totaling 6,380 and 9,418, ...

The house that Michael Kovac built is the only one on his street still standing after a huge fire raced through his Los Angeles neighborhood.

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Dating from 1903, the Arts & Crafts-style house had period charm in spades – a grand tiled hallway, stained glass, original fireplaces and a curving bay at the back with French windows opening ...