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Coldham&Hartman Architects signs 2030 Pledge

May 18: Adopting Architecture 2030's Challenge to create low energy buildings and mitigate the worst effects of climate change.

Coldham&Hartman Architects Wins 1st Place in Pioneer Valley Ideas Competition

Apr. 27: Coldham & Hartman Architects were named 1st Place Winners for the Palmer, Energy Thorndike Site design in the Ideas Competition for the Pioneer Valley.

IDID: Coldham&Hartman Architects Wins 2010 Excellence in Sustainable Design Award

Apr. 16: Coldham&Hartman wins Merit Award from NHAIA for the Davis Student Village at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME.

Amherst Project accepted into DER Pilot Program, passes blower door with flying colors

Feb. 2: Western Mass Electric provides funding for residential renovation that demonstrates large scale energy reductions.

Energy Free, Homes for a Small Planet

Dec. 31: LEED for Homes author, GreenBuildingAdvisor, and one-time BAC student of ours publishes the first full book in the US on Zero Energy Residential Design.

Coldham's Wall Systems in Fine Homebuilding

Dec. 10: Six techniques for R-40 Whole Wall values - including Double Stud Walls, TJI and Exterior Foam solutions.

Coldham Vice-Chairs Building Energy 2010

Bruce Coldham begins first year of two-part commitment to leadership at Building Energy, NESEA's annual conference by acting as Vice-Chair for 2010. Up Next: Chair of the 2011 conference.

Solar Powered Office- Update

Results from the past year on our pv system. Calculated building energy consumption for the Coldham & Hartman Architects offices. Interesting.

College of the Atlantic a Sierra Club Cool School

Each year, the Sierra Club rates the environmental qualities of US colleges and universities. This year, College of the Atlantic made the grade, and scored 97 of 100 , winning the top score for energy.

Coldham and Hartman Architects go Web 2.0

Short and sweet news on design and energy, retrofits and renewables. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Deep Energy Retrofit !

Residential consumption accounts for nearly 40% of energy usage nationwide. C&H Architects designs for deep reductions at home.

Coldham&Hartman wins AIA Honor Award for design excellence

Honor Award for Design Excellence from the Western Mass chapter of the American Institute of Architects for work at Rocky Hill Cohousing, in Florence, MA.

Making Choices Instead of Paying Premiums

Bruce Coldham's examination of the costs associated with "green building", reprinted from the Northeast Sun.

What Needs To Be Done

Bruce Coldham illustrates the choices before us as we enter uncertain economic times, with fuel price volatility the only constant.

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Small Homes, Excellent Enclosures, Almost No Heating System: Fact or Fiction?

From the ASHRAE Journal, by Duncan Prahl, Thomas RC Hartman, Bruce Coldham, Katrin Klingenberg

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What's The World Coming To?

A Sustainable Human Setting
Published in In Context.

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Designing and Building a Zero (Net) Energy Home

A presentation by Bruce Coldham from Building Energy '07, with Moomaw as a Case Study.

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Daylighting

Notes on design and modeling for daylight studies.

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Green Grand Tour
Inside some of Europe's biggest "green" projects.

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Island Cohousing - Patterns

Patterns extracted from Design Development for Island Cohousing.

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Greenfield Energy Park Stairs
Custom tile stairwell at the Park.