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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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.
Deep Energy Retrofit of a 19th Century Maine House
This project is personal: the renovation of our family’s house in Maine. It is a work in progress. The goal has been to take care of a century of deferred maintenance and to make the house as energy-efficient as possible for year-round living. The great challenge has been to make all this work invisible, so […]
Work underway on Landmark DC Carriage House Deep Energy Retrofit
Construction is underway on our first deep energy retrofit of a historic structure. The Spencer Carriage House, listed as a DC Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1905 to serve one of the large mansions in the Dupont Circle area. It is one of the last of these carriage […]
Takeways from the 2016 North American Passive House Conference
We just got back from the PHIUS national conference in Philadelphia. It was quite well attended, with a broad array of topics covered. These conferences are no longer focused simply upon how to do build one, but have become much more specialized and look at all the various aspects of what goes into a Passive […]
Matt and David to Lead Class at 2016 North American Passive House Conference
Matt and David have been asked to give a half day seminar on the special issues related to construction of Passive Houses in our climate zone. We will be talking about building envelope strategies we have used and the evolution of our thinking regarding heating and cooling and ventilation in this climate.
Passive House Gaining Interest in the DC Area
On April 12 Matt and David were asked to do an all-day presentation on passive house design principles for Halfmoon Education Inc., a continuing education organization that sponsors programs for architects and engineers. Around twenty architects and several engineers and developers gave up their day to attend, which to us is a very good sign […]
Groundbreaking this week on the first Net Zero house in Fairfax City
The bulldozers are on the site, and barring rain, they will begin excavation on Fairfax City’s first net zero home. The house was designed using Passive House principles, and the owner is anticipating that the 20 kw solar array planned for the garage and main roofs will power both the cars and the home. We […]
Matt and David spoke at recent events
NESEA Conference On March 9th Matt presented the Weinberg Commons Passive House Retrofit in a presentation called Passive House Deep Energy Retrofits: Revitalizing Masonry Multifamily and Single Family Wood Frame Buildings. Matt was the project architect for this retrofit — the first passive house retrofit in the DC area — with his former firm of […]
Matt Fine, CPHC®, LEED AP® joins our firm
We have exciting news. On January 4, Matt Fine will join the firm and bring with him over 10 years of experience in affordable multifamily housing work. Since his 2010 PHIUS training, Matt has done pioneering work in high performance multifamily housing as Director of ZA+Dpassiv, a division of Zavos Architecture+Design, LLC (ZA+D). He was […]