This is an environment-friendly house named Active House built to demonstrate the possibility of building an energy efficient house in Russia. This house was designed and built to reach the balance of energy saving, environment care by reducing CO2 emissions, as well as healthy indoor climate by the providing of sufficient fresh air and daylight into the house. Then the house was built with right combination of materials, architectural design, as well as the engineering.To reduce the CO2 emissions, the house was built with sun as the prime energy source. The energy consumption inside the house is just about 110 KWh/m2 per year; eight times less than the average of energy consumptions of houses in Russia as well as four times less than recent building regulations. Green environment is surrounded the house; giving huge source of natural fresh air into the house. Situated in Zapadnaya Dolina, outskirts of Moscow, there are many other active houses on the area are being constructed to be new residential community. www.grandhousedesign.com
