Sentences with phrase «passive house concepts»

Wolfgang Feist, one of the creators of the passive house concept and a founder and director of the Passive House Institute, will speak in Dublin on 25 October at the 2013 See The Light conference.

Those «forgotten pioneers» also pushed another piece of the passive house concept.

Forty years of evolution of the passive house concept in North America, including a trip across the pond and back.

«The 15kWh / m2yr target value is not arbitrary, but rather the cost - optimal energy performance value around which the passive house concept is based.

Not exact matches

With an intricate design based on the concept of two pitched - roof sections that overlap, this eye - catching timberframed Sussex home proves you can meet the passive house standard with just about any shape.

Basic Passive House concepts Passive House criteria Principals of thermal insulation Airtight building design and construction Glazing system issues including thermal transfer mechanisms, solar heat gain, and installation thermal bridges Basic ventilation concepts as well as issues related to mechanical and passive ventilation and system design.

And hence we end up with the concept of a negative psi - value which passive house is famous for.

And if I use the term «passive house,» in lower case, I'm talking about the whole concept.

Porter manufactured the SIPs for the Gulyas House, a very interesting LEED Platinum house that was «closely approximates concepts employed in the German passive home» but does not appear to have been certified PassivHouse, a very interesting LEED Platinum house that was «closely approximates concepts employed in the German passive home» but does not appear to have been certified Passivhouse that was «closely approximates concepts employed in the German passive home» but does not appear to have been certified Passivhaus.

Few concepts in sustainable design have caught on like the passive house.

This is somewhat ironic, because the first concept passive house ever was built in Saskatchewan in the 1970s by passive house pioneer Harold Orr.