Sentences with phrase «passive house construction»

Facilitate the development of cost - effective components for use in passive house construction.

A new development of passive housing on the outskirts of Norwich shows how to combine energy efficiency, ecology and affordability on one exemplary site — and why the city continues to be an unlikely leader in pushing passive house construction in the UK.

She believes carpenters are particularly well suited to passive house construction «because they are all about precision».

Not exact matches

Although Peter Land's original hopes of securing a passive house retrofit «for free» were disappointed, he is extremely proud of what he, Eco Design and Bow Tie Construction achieved.

He brought in architects Eco Design Consultants and contractor Bow Tie Construction, who advised him that though Enerphit would undoubtedly be simpler, passive house would be achievable too.

All new buildings in south - east Dublin must be built to the passive house standard or demonstrably equivalent levels, in a move that may lead to the construction of upwards of 20,000 passive houses by 2022.

Although the construction techniques used for a passive house are essentially the same as for a typical home, builders have to be at the top of their game, sealing every hole and seam to make the house airtight.

We will start at Vancouver City Hall, then bike along Ontario Street to visit four passive houses at various stages of construction.

More than 1,000 passive house experts (architects, engineers, consultants, manufacturers, municipalities, construction families, etc.) from more than 50 countries visit the Passive House Conference every house experts (architects, engineers, consultants, manufacturers, municipalities, construction families, etc.) from more than 50 countries visit the Passive House Conference every House Conference every year.

Home the construction on passive house goes well!

• Urban, high density and high - rise buildings • Low - rise and rural approaches • Buildings from the arctic to the tropics • Policymakers with growing expertise in implementing Passive House programs • Multi-family housing, both affordable and market rate • Integration of renewable energy • Steel and concrete construction, wood frame construction and cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction • The processes, details and results of passive house proHouse programs • Multi-family housing, both affordable and market rate • Integration of renewable energy • Steel and concrete construction, wood frame construction and cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction • The processes, details and results of passive house prohouse projects

However, Cowper Care's next construction project, a 100 - bed nursing home in Kimmage, which Daire is now working on, won't be to passive house specifications, mainly due to the cost and scale, but he will be taking on board a number of the details and principles he and his team has learnt working on Alexandra Crescent.

Karl Parsons's former colleague at Warm, Jon Trinick agrees — he says that when a passive house is complicated or close to the margins of compliance, success is more dependent than ever on the quality of construction — «and the contractor helped by being awesome.»

«The quality of the homes is very high due to the attention to detail given both to passive house design and construction,» Hulmes says.

The seminar will demonstrate how passive house and nZEB standards can be achieved using single leaf construction, while delivering improved thermal and structural performance.

Green Building Store continues to fine tune passive house design and construction techniques with exacting attention to detail, as demonstrated by its latest superinsulated, stone - clad cavity wall house in West Yorkshire.

New York is home to a growing passive house movement, and will soon be home to the world's tallest high - rise passive house, a 26 - story dormitory building currently under construction as part of the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

Completed early this year, the new Centre for Medicine at the University of Leicester is by far the largest single building in the UK to meet the passive house standard — and not surprisingly, its design and construction posed tough new challenges for how to meet the rigorous low energy standard on such a large, complicated building.

At Ithaca, construction is finishing up on a third neighborhood that includes seven homes certified under the ultra-efficient passive house standard.

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.

The latest issue of Passive House Plus includes several examples which appear to contradict this claim — including a block - built passive house in Co Kildare estimated by builder Pat Doran Construction, a CIF member, to have cost $ 20,000 less to build than the department's own suggested specification from its regulatory impact analysis on the 2011 changes to Part L of building regulatHouse Plus includes several examples which appear to contradict this claim — including a block - built passive house in Co Kildare estimated by builder Pat Doran Construction, a CIF member, to have cost $ 20,000 less to build than the department's own suggested specification from its regulatory impact analysis on the 2011 changes to Part L of building regulathouse in Co Kildare estimated by builder Pat Doran Construction, a CIF member, to have cost $ 20,000 less to build than the department's own suggested specification from its regulatory impact analysis on the 2011 changes to Part L of building regulations.

This course focuses on building enclosure optimization, and provides a foundation in passive house principles, while stressing the importance of construction fundamentals and proper sequencing.

In light of objections by the construction industry to plans by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to make the passive house standard mandatory in the area, we decided to republish this 2012 article from Village magazine by our deputy editor, Lenny Antonelli, which details the history of the industry's objections to higher standards.

«We've wanted to get to passive house, to a new standard of construction,» says Patrick Durkan.

Pat Doran Construction advised Matt that it wouldn't take much extra to get their design to meet the passive house standard.

Architect (planning drawings & project supervision): Mola Architecture Architect (working drawings & passive house details): Natalie Walsh Contractor: Pat Doran Construction M&E engineer: Ethos Engineering Structural engineer: Garland Consultancy Passive house consultants: Integrated Energy, Target Zero Passive house certification: Mead Consulting BER: Rate My Home Quantity surveyor (client): KMCS Quantity surveyor (contractor): RTC Surveying Electrical contractor: Jones Engineering Group Plumbing: Prospect Plumbing & Heating Underfloor heating contractor: Base Engineering Underfloor heating system: Polytherm MVHR: Flynn Heat Recovery Air - to - air heat pump: Panasonic Fan coil units: Tech Refrigeration Solar thermal: Alternative Energy Ireland Airtightness testing: Greenbuild EPS insulation: Airpacks External render: Neotherm External insulation contractor: Enda Linnane Construction Mineral wool insulation: Isover Airtightness products: Siga Breather membranes: Ecological Building Systems Floor insulation: Xtratherm Thermal breaks: Partel Low thermal conductivity blocks: Quinnlite Roof insulation & airtightness contractor: Baker & Co Windows & doors: Rationel Curtain walling: Lakeside Windows Roof windows: Tradecraft Pet door: Petwalk Polished concrete floor: Renobuild Roofing: Christy McMahon Carpentry

Another architect and passive house designer, Natalie Walsh, was also appointed and produced the working construction drawings, including 16 details related to cold bridging and airtightness.

Meanwhile the Construction Industry Federation has erroneously argued that if the passive house standard is introduced, very few new homes will be built in Dun Laghaoire Rathdown in 2016.

The passive house standard may be acceptable as an alternative method of compliance with Ireland's stringent energy efficiency regulations, according to a leading expert in energy and construction law, leaving the door open to a similar approach in the UK.

Speakers at the conference included Minister for Housing Simon Coveney, former European Parliament president Pat Cox, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland CEO Jim Gannon, Construction Industry Federation director general Tom Parlon, Wexford County Council chief executive Tom Enright, Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown county architect Andrée Dargan, Department of Housing advisor Seán Armstrong, Michael Bennett Construction QS Seamus Mullins, University of Ulster academic Dr Shane Colclough, EnEffect director Dragomir Tzanev, ILTP Consulting MD Christy O'Sullivan, and all three nZEBRA directors, along with the owners of two separate nZEBs which share the rare distinction of being A1 rated passive houses — Monica Hackett and Francis Clauson.

Duncan Architect is glad to be able to help people jump on the «passive - construction bandwagon,» especially on a project like the HANAC senior housing that will be such a benefit to the community in Corona, Queens.

A social services organization, the Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee or Hanac, has also jumped on the passive - construction bandwagon for its eight - story 68 - unit senior housing development, to be completed in Queens in summer 2017, said John Napolitano, Hanac's director of community development and planning.

As noted by the panelists, the design and construction team should be trained in the fundamentals of passive house building and design.

With the exception of a few basic elements, construction costs are identical for passive house and conventional construction.

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.

Some construction methods and components critical to passive house design can not be accurately accounted for in the HERS Index, a performance rating system used with the MN GreenStar program.

It is important to us that everybody we engage has a good appreciation for passive house principles and construction.

Since the construction of the first passive house in Germany in 1990, an estimated 15 to 20,000 houses have been built to what is arguably the world's leading low energy building standard.

The U.S. green building market value sat at $ 71 billion in 2010, but is expected to rise to an impressive $ 163 billion by 2015, according to McGraw - Hill Construction Data, showing that green initiatives like passive housing will soon move from idealism to realism.