LEED Accredited Architect and Renewable Energy Systems Engineer specializing in sustainable residential design. She has 12 years of experience retrofitting suburban homes for energy independence and off-grid resilience.
Siobhan O'Connor combines architectural design with electrical engineering to create homes that are both beautiful and energy-efficient. She runs a firm dedicated to passive house standards and complex retrofits, helping homeowners navigate zoning laws and technical constraints to install solar arrays and wind turbines. Her expertise covers the "whole house" system, from insulation and airflow to battery storage capacity for blackouts. She writes to solve the practical problems of sustainability, explaining why solar panels need specific sizing for winter usage and how to design home offices that physically separate work from rest. She challenges "greenwashing" by analyzing the true carbon footprint of materials and lifestyle choices.