Sentences with phrase «most passive houses»

Most passive houses allow about 500 square feet per person, a comfortable though not expansive living space.

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Most of the material things in life that matter most (e.g. house, education, passive income, career advancement, etc.) require thinking ahead and making plMost of the material things in life that matter most (e.g. house, education, passive income, career advancement, etc.) require thinking ahead and making plmost (e.g. house, education, passive income, career advancement, etc.) require thinking ahead and making plans.

So, huge carbon savings, and since interest rates are below 10 %, most any builder would install a GSHP and / or super-insulation and / or passive / active solar and / or whole house ventilation instead of a conventional HVAC system if the buyer had to consider monthly energy costs the same as monthly payments when facing the bank.

In fact passive house buildings do have heating demand, and it seems that the PHPP internal heat gains figure is a good approximation in most cases.

«The house has a passive solar design, with most of the windows installed on the southern exposure.

Jon Trinick adds that some people had been concerned that Cameron Close, by not embracing the most cost - effective building forms and completely optimised glazing, might be dangerous to the adoption of the passive house standard and the perception of its affordability.

67 % of readers enquired about airtightness products, making it the most popular enquiry; Next came insulation on 65 %, with passive house & low energy build systems neck and neck with heat recovery ventilation on 57 %; 47 % of people enquired about rainwater harvesting, making it the most popular non-energy related category; 80 % of readers enquired about one or more types of renewable energy technology.

This is what you get when one of Ireland's most experienced low energy builders creates a home for his own family, with help from one of the country's foremost ecological architects — a modern and elegant passive house that pays detailed attention to sustainability at every turn.

One of the most common ones is that you can't open the windows in a passive house.

One of the lessons learned from Hastoe's previous schemes is how to hand over something as innovative as passive housing to ensure that occupants get the most out of the dwellings.

This is just the beginning of creating and promoting more energy - efficient buildings and sharing the message that passive house techniques are one of the most effective strategies in this endeavor.

And a passive house requires a tremendous amount of insulation: 17,000 pounds of dense - pack cellulose in the walls, contained in a 12 - inch «pocket» surrounding the entire house; 2 feet of loose - fill insulation in the roof; triple - pane windows filled with argon gas; and doors so well sealed and insulated that they provide as much protection as the walls in most houses.

Initially, the Alkatouts were planning to retrofit their home, but when the house next door went up for sale, they decided to buy it, raze it, and build from scratch the most ecologically responsible house they could afford using passive - construction techniques.

Construct Ireland, the magazine which evolved into Passive House Plus, featured two of his exemplary sustainable projects, perhaps most notably including a substantial mixed - use scheme on Galway's Forster Street from 2006 that featured passive solar design, external insulation, triple - glazed curtain walling, airtightness, MVHR and renewables amongst other measures.