Our firm has undergone some changes these past five years. The pandemic forced change on everyone. Some for the good and some not so good. The time since, we have doubled down on our values and our responsibility to our clients and the public. To me, the challenge and crisis of those years highlighted the […]
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BIG NEWS
What a year! Let’s begin with the most recent and biggest news: we have changed our name! On January 1, Peabody Architects became P E A B O D Y F I N E A R C H I T E C T S Matt Fine has over 20 years’ experience in the design of […]
Earth Day 2020
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Designing for a New Distributed Energy Grid
Exactly ten years ago my firm began designing our first Passive House. I had taken Passive House training in 2008 and at that time only a handful had been built. I knew that the only way to develop local interest in the approach was to actually build one. Luckily for me, Brendan O’Neill, a builder […]
The Global Climate Strike is on.
Our office participated in the Global Climate Strike that is happening Sept. 20th-27th. We joined thousands of people in DC to interrupt business as usual and voice our concern of inaction to the looming Climate Crisis. As well, David joined with a proportional band of citizens in East Blue Hill […]
Arlington Zero Energy Passive Progress Update 1
Weather has been a huge factor as O’Neill Development has struggled to pour concrete walls and complete backfilling in between unprecedented rainstorms. All concrete for the house proper is now in place and considerable backfilling has been accomplished. Work is now proceeding on placing footings for various site retaining walls before completion of all backfilling […]
Matt and David to speak in Richmond
On July 24, for the third year, we will be leading an all-day seminar introducing Passive House principles to an audience of architects, engineers and builders. The talk is put on by Half Moon Education. If interested, you can contact them at their website.
Carriage House Retrofit wins AIA DC Citation for Sustainable Design!
The DC Chapter of the AIA held its annual awards jury this week, and our Stable Carriage House retrofit won a Citation for Sustainable Design. All of Izumi’s hard work managing a very difficult project paid off! Congratulations to the entire team. You can see who was on the team and check out the project […]
Arlington Zero Energy Passive progress: footings in place
After extensive excavation on a difficult site, the footings were poured this week, and as I write this post, the formwork for the basement walls is going up. What makes the site so difficult is the steep slope and the very little room onsite for equipment and storage of earth. The procedure for the footings […]
DC Landmark Stable and Carriage House Deep Energy Retrofit Now Complete
Work is now complete on our DC Landmark carriage house deep energy retrofit. We have published pictures and a description of the project here.
Work begins on our newest Net Zero home
Site work has begun on our newest net zero home. The builder is O’Neill Development, with whom we have worked on all of our Passive Houses. The first step was to de-construct the original house, in which the owners had lived for the past twenty years. De-construction is being completed this weekend by Deconstruction Services, […]
Report from our Maine Deep Energy Retrofit
My family just spent two weeks of Christmas vacation in the 1850 SF farmhouse we renovated last year. You can learn more about the renovation on that blog. Here is how it performed with a family of 5 plus a couple of extras beds filled from time to time: Heating: We heated exclusively with […]