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PAGE 14. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017.
Walton's Lees lay plans for greener passive house
A desire for change
Chris Lee, shown, and his wife Judy have lived for years in a house that's over a century old.
After spending their livelihoods building a technologically advanced race track, the couple felt
it was time to incorporate some newer technology in their to -be -built home. The result is what's
called a passive home which provides a greener way of life. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
Chris and Judy Lee of Walton
wanted to curb their impact on the
environment so they've decided to
build a passive house later this year.
The Lees have lived just east of
Walton for decades in a house built
in the 1880s. Around the home they
have crafted an expansive and
extremely modern motocross track
that is known throughout North
America.
As life advanced at the motocross
course around him, he would return
home at night to a house with
technology over 125 years old. Lee
recounts a conversation he had with
a dairy farmer who felt he was in the
same boat, saying he would employ
robotic milking and the most
advanced technology in his farming
operation, but return home to a
house stuck in an era generations
earlier.
Last year, as succession planning
at the Walton property began to pick
up speed with the Lees' son Brett
taking over the raceway's day-to-
day operations, the Lees started
looking to build a new house at the
east end of the property, near the
newly -installed Edge of Walton
Challenge Course. Chris's curiosity
about building an efficient home
took him down a rabbit hole where
he would eventually end up
considering a passive house as an
option.
The initial concept of a passive
house dates back to the late 1980s in
Germany, where the first
"passivhaus" was built in the early
1990s. The term pertains to a
voluntary standard of building
applied to a house that makes it
incredibly energy efficient and
requires very little heating or
cooling.
Due to the orientation of the
building, strategic placement of
elements such as windows and
awnings and extremely efficient
insulation in the walls, roof and
windows, there is no need for a
furnace or air-conditioning unit. It
does, however, use a heat recovery
unit (HRV), which provides the
inside with fresh air without letting
the house's heat escape.
A properly -constructed passive
house is said to use 90 per cent less
energy than a standard house built to
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