Maple Street

Maple Street is a new-construction home + ADU pursuing Passive House certification, with Point 6 running the technical workflow from the energy model to the blower-door test.

Maple Street is a new single-family home with a detached garage and an ADU above, in Superior, Colorado. Lightwell Architecture is the architect of record. The owners are pursuing Passive House certification on the project, which means the building is designed to verified comfort, durability, and energy-performance targets rather than to code minimums alone.

Point 6 is the energy-modeling and Passive House consulting partner. The scope on Maple Street covers four threads. First, the energy modeling itself—building and maintaining the designPH and PHPP model that converts every wall, window, and mechanical decision into a heating-demand number the design team can act on. Second, the documentation chain—the spec sheets, calculations, photographs, and inspection records that a Passive House certification body requires before it will sign off on the building. Third, training the build team on the critical details: where the air-control layer lives in the assembly, why the tape sequence matters, what "continuous" actually means in continuous insulation. Fourth, field support—showing up on site to walk the air barrier before it gets buried, to run the blower-door, and to catch the small problems while they are still small.

The four threads work together. The model is what makes the certification target real; the documentation is what makes the certification defensible; the training is what gets the model's specifications to land in the building as drawn; and the field support is what verifies the building actually performs the way the model said it would. None of them is sufficient on its own—and on a certified Passive House, all four are non-negotiable

Architect: Lightwell Architecture
Energy modeling, documentation, training, and field support: POINT6