Join architect Tommy Doerr for a tour of the net-zero energy Moore House featured in the Metro Denver Green Home Tour on Saturday 5 October from 9am-4pm. Several other solar houses will be on the tour. Learn in-person about sustainable design. More info and tickets at: https://www.newenergycolorado.org/home-tour
Doerr Architecture’s office in Loveland Colorado now gets all its electricity by clean, free PV (photovoltaic) energy. We designed and built this solar electric system with battery backup for when the grid goes down. The solar panel mount angles are adjustable to maximize energy gain throughout the year.
Doerr Architecture has designed a passive solar home addition for our clients in Foxfield Colorado. You can see a fly-through video of its 3D CAD model here.
Doerr Architecture has been commissioned to analyze a building and its site in Fort Collins Colorado for its solar access. We are consulting with its owners about their property’s PV (photovoltaic) and passive solar challenges and opportunities.
Doerr Architecture is redeveloping a site in Loveland Colorado as the developer, architect, and general contractor. The site has a 101 year old house and the property is zoned high-density residential with the possibility of up to six units.
The passive solar urban infill development, the Finch House, designed by Doerr Architecture was featured in a Denver Post article by Kelsey Fowler.
A video of a Denver house pop-top addition designed by Doerr architecture has been released. The Buckvold+Hrusovsky home is a passive solar remodel in Denver Colorado.
The passive solar Finch House addition in Denver Colorado designed by Doerr Architecture was featured in the article Roots of Style: The Segmental Vault Home by Steven Randel.
The second edition of Architect Thomas Doerr’s book Passive Solar Simplified: Easily design a truly green home for Colorado and the West was published with new helpful information.
The net-zero energy Moore house is being featured on New Energy Colorado’s Denver Metro Green Home Tour on 7 October 2023. Architect Thomas Doerr with be there with the Moores to give explanations of all its green features. There will be a green building expo in Golden CO afterwards. Learn more: https://www.newenergycolorado.org/home-tour
Architect Thomas Doerr was selected to teach the Green Building course at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The course will focus on the enormous environmental impacts of buildings and the most effective strategies to mitigate these, as well as the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) system. This appointment is part time so Thomas can continue his architecture practice.
The net-zero energy Moore house will be featured on CRES’s (Colorado Renewable Energy Society’s) Denver Area Solar and Green Home Tour on 10 September.
A feature article in City and Mountain Views magazine was published about the net-zero energy Moore House. This Evergreen Colorado mountain house creates more energy than it uses and was designed by Doerr Architecture.
A cover article in LOCALE magazine was written about the Kruger+Cunningham House. The design is an addition to a historic home in Boulder, Colorado that was designed by Doerr Architecture.
Architect Thomas Doerr will speak about what you need to know about passive solar home design to save over 80% of your home’s heating and cooling bills. You will learn what you need to do to take advantage of the clean, free heating and cooling from the sun, and to lessen your dependence on volatile dirty energy sources. It will be held on 16 March at 7pm at the Meadows Library in Boulder, Colorado.
Architect Thomas Doerr has sent to his editor the manuscript Passive Solar Simplified; Just what you need to know about designing a very energy efficient house.
The environmental group Clean Energy Action has invited Thomas Doerr to give his presentation Passive Solar Home Design; what you need to know. It will be at CEA’s monthly meeting beginning at 7pm in the Meadows Library in Boulder, Colorado. It is free and open to the public. Learn more at www.cleanenergyaction.org.
Paintings and photographs by Thomas Doerr and others will be in the first exhibition in the Phoenix Asylum gallery. The opening begins at 7pm at 2510 47th St., Unit D/DD in Boulder, Colorado. It is free and open to the public.
Six professionals specializing in sustainable design, including Thomas Doerr, will be speaking at the Residential Green Building Seminar in Denver. The seminars last all day and Doerr will be speaking about passive solar home design.
The mayor of Denver presented the Finch House designed by Doerr Architecture its 2008 annual design award in the category “It’s Easy Being Green”. They cited the house’s dynamic aesthetics, great passive solar design and other energy efficiency measures.
Architect Thomas Doerr will be one of the instructors of the Sustainable Home Design week-long course at SEI in Carbondale, Colorado on 4-8 June 2007. Along with Rachel Connor, Dan Chiras, Johnny Weiss, and others, Thomas will teach about ecological home design.
For the TV station’s Earth Day celebration, the Troxell-Murphy House in Boulder, Colorado was featured for its economical, green design and its architect, Thomas Doerr, was interviewed live.
Along with experts on wind energy and photovoltaics, Solar Energy International invited Thomas Doerr to lecture in Golden, Colorado to solar industry professionals about passive solar design.
All of Doerr Architecture’s electricity is now supplied by clean, renewable, wind-generated energy so as not to contribute to global climate change.
The Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) and the Colorado Energy Science Center (CESC) sponsored a lecture by green building experts at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Architect Thomas Doerr presented to a sold out audience of over 100 attendees about the essentials of passive solar design. Topics included proper building orientation, area and type of glass, solar shading, thermal mass, ventilation, room arrangement, daylighting, and other important ecological building strategies.
Free money, courtesy of Colorado’s Amendment 37, is the driving factor for an increase in new PV (photo voltaic) installations. Xcel Energy’s solar-electric rebates total $4.50 per installed watt. Once new panels are operating, one can get over $10,000 back from Xcel. There is also a federal tax credit of 30 percent of installation costs, up to $2,000. The money comes from Xcel’s entire customer base. Per Amendment 37 and related regulations, Xcel will charge all its customers an extra 1 percent on top of regular bills to cover program costs, so subsidize your own system.
Xcel Energy is offering $196 million in rebates from 2006-2013 for energy reduction in commercial buildings over 50,000SF and residential buildings over 150,000SF. Xcel’s Bill Gruen said these rebates are for design fees, lighting, cooling, and industrial motors. Applicants must be Xcel electric customers in Colorado. Many of these rebates can also be applied to existing buildings. These rebates are in addition to federal tax credits and Xcel’s photo voltaic (solar electric) rebates.
There will be an open house in Boulder, Colorado at the newly remodeled passive solar Troxell-Murphy home addition designed by Doerr Architecture. This home used prefabricated rooms to speed construction. Passive Solar Home Details
One of Doerr Architecture’s finest passive solar homes, The Finch House, was completed. With ample properly shaded southern windows, great thermal mass and excellent green construction detailing, this Denver home addition and remodel is expected to reduce its heating and cooling bills by 90%. Passive Solar Home Details.
