Miller Hull

Week in Tech: Miller Hull’s Loom House Is First Residential Retrofit to Be a Living Building

The Miller Hull Partnership has achieved Living Building Challenge certification for its renovation of the Loom House, located on a bluff in Bainbridge Island, Wash. The project is one of four residences to achieve the rigorous green-project designation—and the first retrofit project to do so. Miller Hull began the renovation of the 3,200-square-foot 1960s house in 2018, creating a tight building envelope and installing an extensive photovoltaic array and battery system to generate and store energy for the net-positive energy property. Rainwater cisterns and a gray-water treatment system ensure resource conservation on the property, which is studded with native evergreen trees, some of which reach up to 46 inches in diameter and are more than 100 years old.

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