Figure 45. Some of the windows waiting to be installed.
Figure 46. Storms were expected over the weekend so the house was wrapped up tightly.
In all of Switzerland, there are almost 353 new single family homes that are Minergie-P certified. As we go through the process of having our own architect-designed (Walker Architekten) Minergie-P house built, we thought it might be of interest to some people to read about it in English. Note that at the start of the blog the house was going to be simply a Minergie house. As construction neared, changes in the plans reduced the calculated energy demand to the level of a Minergie-P house.
Figure 45. Some of the windows waiting to be installed.
Figure 46. Storms were expected over the weekend so the house was wrapped up tightly.
Figure 43. A peek into the installation, upper floor before they started to put the roof on. View towards the east.
Figure 44. One of the roof elements being placed.
Figure 42. A peek into the installation, upper floor. View towards the east.
The first batch of wood elements were trucked to our site yesterday and the woodworkers started their work. This photo is from the end of the working day today, after the upper floor was mostly put together. This stage should be completed by Thursday.