Category: passive home

We finished up the construction of our Menlo Passive custom home a few weeks ago and just had our photographer come out to capture the home for us. Check out these beautiful photos – showcasing the exterior, the great room, kitchen, master suite and bathrooms. Menlo Passive proves that green can be gorgeous! Not only does Menlo Passive provide energy efficiency, comfort, health and durability, and up to 90% in energy savings coupled with construction techniques that exceeded the passive house air tightness standards by 65%, but it looks beautiful too. Passive house standards can be integrated...


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You are invited!  Please join us next week at one of our upcoming passive home events at Menlo Park and San Mateo County’s first passive home – Menlo Passive. We'll have expert passive house consultants to answer your questions about passive homes and show you how Clarum Homes is reinventing green building.     Passive House Consultants & Designers Tour Wednesday, June 1st 5pm – 8pm Menlo Passive Event includes refreshments and a passive house presentation.     Passive Home Event Thursday, June 2nd 12pm – 2pm Menlo Passive Event...


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Clarum is currently designing our first passive home in Palo Alto, California. It will be located in the Southgate neighborhood adjacent to Stanford University and Palo Alto High School. We’ll be under construction in the fall. Check back with us for more info. If you are interested in owning this Palo Alto passive home or having a passive home designed or built for you, send us an email. sean@clarum.com   UPDATE: Our Palo Alto Passive Home is getting near to completion.


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First Certified Passive Home in San Mateo County & Menlo Park, California We are well under way on our first custom Passive Home in Menlo Park. The house is scheduled to be finished in late May. You may be wondering….what exactly is a passive house? A Passive Home is an extremely comfortable, healthy, economical and sustainable home, designed and constructed to use up to 90% less energy than a traditional home. This is achieved by enhanced insulation, greatly reduced thermal bridging, a virtually air tight building envelope, high performance windows and a heat recovery ventilation...


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