Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau

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.