Sentences with phrase «passive house helped»

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The clean constant air has helped with my breathing, as I suffer with heart problems and asthma,» was the view of one resident in a Gentoo passive house bungalow.3 Some scientific studies have also suggested that the health of people with respiratory conditions improves when mechanical ventilation is installed in their homes.4

O'Toole simplified things, putting the design through the passive house design package PHPP in order to ensure that the building fabric delivered, and to help make the house more buildable.

Rafael Delimata agreed: «The client would have been better off in terms of money and time spent on the project had they opted for Enerphit, but they wanted to go full passive house, so we were determined to help them achieve that, and we did.

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.»

In other passive house projects it has been observed that shutters are sometimes used more for privacy than for summer shading; if left closed during the heating season this would tend to hinder rather than help the thermal performance by blocking out winter solar gains.

In this first instalment of his brand new «Help Desk» feature, architect and passive house designer Simon McGuinness of Dublin Institute of Technology invites questions on all aspects of passive house, retrofit and low energy building.

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.

For John Morehead, a standard such as passive house, in the hands of a skilled architect, can help to reconcile the seeming conflict between design for beauty's sake and the needs of occupants.

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.

As for those black bases the metallic towers sit on, each houses a 3 - inch low frequency driver and a passive radiator, which helps add a little extra bass presence.

Once a year, the International Passive House Association holds a house tour where passive homeowners open their homes to the public to help spread the passive moveHouse Association holds a house tour where passive homeowners open their homes to the public to help spread the passive movehouse tour where passive homeowners open their homes to the public to help spread the passive movement.