Sto Co-Sponsors First-Ever US Collegiate Design-Build Passive House Ice Box Challenge with Pratt Institute
Sto Corp., the innovative world leader in complete single-sourced solutions for the building envelope, has teamed up with Pratt Institute and Passive House for Everyone (PHFE) as an advocate sponsor for the first-ever US Collegiate Designed and Built rendition of the International Passive House Ice Box Challenge. Created to demonstrate the essential role Passive House standards can play in mitigating the global climate crisis, the Ice Box Challenge has been an effective illustration around the world. Passive House design and construction has five principles that are fundamental to the energy efficiency of buildings, drastically reducing a building’s energy use while enhancing health and comfort.
The Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn Ice Box Challenge will demonstrate these principles effectively and publicly as the architecture students design and construct two ice box structures, one according to local standard building codes and the other guided by high-performance Passive House building standards. Students and onlookers alike will be able to then observe how a half-ton of ice blocks inside each structure fares over one week.