Our Services
We are a full-service Passive House design firm. We offer consulting, design, planning and engineering services from first meeting to occupancy. We have delivered certified Passive House buildings in North America since 2008.
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We offer all traditional architectural phases for residential new construction and retrofit/ addition projects from pre-design and schematic design via design development, construction documents to contract administration, documentation and certification services.
While most of our clients hire us for a full project delivery, we are also working on specific items such as master plans, energy modeling, or schematics for assemblies and systems to name a few.
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We consult with a variety of clients on a wide range of projects. We collaborate with fellow architects, owners, and developers to introduce and illustrate the benefits of energy efficiency, carbon accounting and decarbonization, low embodied energy, human comfort, health, building durability, and cost optimizations, and we help them solve the challenges of tomorrow in today's building projects.
We have experience with life cycle impact studies, as well as life cycle costing. Our research and experience has been used as the foundation for strategic plans in municipalities, states, corporations, and educational institutions.
Our clients include the University of Minnesota Physicians (now M Health), Concordia College, Western Technical College, the City of Minneapolis, the City of Vancouver, the State of South Dakota, ESG Architects, Ryan Companies, Alchemy Architects, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, the Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation, the Landon Group, Newport Partners, the Minnesota Student Housing Coop and many more.
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Many of our projects are residential in nature. However, our experience transcends that field. We are universally trained and we have successfully participated in multi-family, mixed use, office, industrial, health-care, educational and municipal projects.
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Our projects are located in many different places across the United States and Canada, as are our clients.
We are on a Mission
At TE Studio, we feel that it is important to create buildings that deliver on many levels of design, sustainability and performance to provide your with real measurable results and amazing value.
We are experts dedicated to beautiful, durable, functional, and earth-friendly building designs that offer healthy environments and economy to meet your needs now and in the future. We practice Passive House design–the world’s leading building energy standard focusing on superior energy efficiency and quality of life at low operating cost. While originating in Germany, the founders of Passive House were deeply inspired by the energy conservation movement in the U.S. in the 1970s. We feel that Passive House in the U.S represents a perfect blend of the American spirit of invention combined with German engineering. We pioneered this world-class standard in the U.S. to provide you with measurable, leading-edge performance and results. We successfully designed Passive House buildings in one of the most challenging climates on earth and welcome the opportunity to do the same for you wherever you are.
TE Studio is holistic design for sustainable buildings.
What We Believe In
We are motivated by our Clients’ challenges and respond with experience, confidence, and patience to help pioneer the highest level of sustainability in building design. Our holistic approach delivers ultimate performance and efficiency blended with beautiful and functional design.
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We design to sustain our lifestyle indefinitely with the resources we have, as we borrow the Earth from our children.
Our planet is our habitat. Resource-efficient, high-performance building is our civic duty.
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People care for what works for them and what they love. Therefore, a thoughtful design provides ultimate sustainability.
Detailed planning and quality construction provide a predictable outcome and minimize risk.
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We look beyond operating energy and optimize all the resources that go into a building over the course of its life.
A holistic sustainable design is the foundation of affordable life-cycle cost.
Meet the Founder
In May 2021, Jordan Powers talks with TE Studio founder Tim Delhey Eian about his primary focus: Passive House design–the world’s leading voluntary building energy standard focusing on superior energy efficiency and quality of life at low operating cost.
Check out Jordan’s Midwest Architecture + Design podcast series.
Tim Delhey Eian
Dipl.-Ing. Arch. (Architectural Engineer)
Certified Passive House Designer and Consultant
You could say Tim was destined to have a career in architecture. At age three he followed construction progress of his new family home in Germany with fascination. As a young teenager he worked as an intern with his parents’ architect. Already realizing his life’s passion, he further prepared himself by mastering the foundations of woodworking in a carpentry apprenticeship, earning the prestigious title Master Carpenter. He later graduated with honors, earning an architectural engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Tim has over 20 years of experience in both Germany and the U.S.
Deeply influenced by exposure to stringent German environmental policies throughout his formative years, he has a strong conviction that protecting the earth for humankind is one of the key challenges of his generation.
With the desire to take architecture to a new level of sustainability, Tim founded TE Studio in 2008. The same year, he started designing the first certified Passive House home in Wisconsin, which is also the first to offer plus-energy levels of performance in the country. Tim also designed the first certified Passive House projects in the TwinCities and Michigan.
Tim founded Passive House Minnesota—now a chapter of the Passive House Network—and was a founding board member of the Passive House Alliance U.S. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Minnesota, and many other continuing education venues. He and his wife are raising their two children bilingually in Northeast Minneapolis. Their family-home, the Good Energy Haus, is Minneapolis’ first certified Passive House Plus new construction home.
Tim and his firm have been instrumental in educating and transforming how Minnesota owners, developers, municipalities, legislators and building professionals think about high performance buildings.
Professional Affiliations
Tim Eian founded Passive House Minnesota, a chapter of the The Passive House Network in 2008. Since then, he has been an active member of the organization— volunteering locally and nationally to educate about and promote the international Passive House standard.
Through Passive House Minnesota, Tim is also an active member and supporter of the Passive House Network, as well as the international Passive House Association.
Go Team!
At TE Studio we pride ourselves in collaboration, not only with our clients, but also with cutting edge specialists in the building industry. We firmly believe in an integrated design approach—always looking at all aspects of a project. We maximize its potential through integration of design, assemblies, products, equipment, and controls. We partner with expert consultants and builders to achieve the highest level of performance and design in the built product.