

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.
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.