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A local contractor, Craig Morgan, who had been lined up to work on the house from the start, had
no passive house experience but did have an instinctive grasp of the basic principles.
Not exact matches
Alan Clarke is one of the UK's foremost
passive house experts, but says this was his first
experience of using the component method of certification for Enerphit.
«However there are challenges in delivering larger projects to the [
passive house] standard, including cost, building form, and contractor
experience, so we are taking a methodical approach to ensure appropriate solutions across our programme.
Canadian
houses are generally built without good
passive design characteristics — they often have inefficient shapes (i.e. high area to volume ratios), they're generally not oriented towards the sun or they
experience significant winter shading.
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.
He continues: «From our
experience and knowledge we were able to say that the budget was sufficient, that the
house had a good orientation and form factor for
passive house.
Passive houses feel different to ordinary buildings, which is one of the reasons the International
Passive House Days — and the opportunity to
experience passive houses first hand — are such a central part of the
Passive House Institute's efforts.
But after they met architectural engineer Tim Eian — whose company TE Studios has extensive
experience in
passive -
house design — and he explained the method's advantages, «it all made sense,» they say.
Our builder had no prior
experience of
passive house new build or retrofit, but Richard had used the same company for a previous
house extension and was confident of a quality job.
«Insurance is a much more
passive product and to that degree I think the Canadian in -
house experience will be similar to what we see in the U.K., which is an openness to insurance options,» he says.