Sentences with phrase «passive house home»

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Between my job and passive income, I should surpass 300k / yr within the next 6 months, I'm able to live in a house nice enough to be a forever home with a 1,400 / month mortgage, do things like surprise my dad with a Mazda mita (his dream car) as a retirement gift, etc..

Sensing an opportunity, I made the move to on the one hand increase passive income by renting out my old house and on the other purchase my ideal San Francisco home for the second half of my life.

Arguing about stupid shit and being passive aggressive doesn't set a nice tone for the day so I threw in the towel and I decided that working from home was in order and I managed to get some errands and chores done around the house.

By building or retrofitting to achieve resilient design, we can create homes that will never drop below 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit even if the house is totally cut off from power and heating fuel — they can do that with high levels of insulation, top - performing windows, passive solar gain, and other features..

As another example, occupants of the passive house Lancaster Co-housing development also reported high satisfaction with their homes in a building user survey, including with the air quality: none said the ventilation was noisy, in fact some commented that you couldn't actually hear it to tell whether it was running.

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

This new Dungannon home shuns conventional passive house design and embraces the late 19th century Arts and Crafts movement.

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.

These top ten passive solar design tips will give you a good starting point in designing your own tiny house by using the sun to your advantage for both heating and cooling your home.

If a passive solar natural building feels like the right style of tiny house for you, these techniques will empower you to build a space that is comfortable year round, while reducing your costs to maintain the home and lowering your carbon footprint.

Darryl believes that the natural ventilation of passive solar design is not mutually exclusive to the design of Passive House homes in New Zealand.

They also wanted a home that was healthy and as energy efficient as possible, so we proposed the idea of the passive house.

Want to create a passive solar, healthy, energy and water efficient home with your existing house?

It was the fact that a passive house would increase the overall quality of life in their home: a quieter environment, fresh air and better air quality, thermal comfort, and overall building durability and longevity of a moisture - controlled home.

People planning to build a new home could save themselves thousands of euro each year by developing a passive house, according to the Passive House Association of Ireland (PHAI), a new low energy design initiative comprising passive house designers and contrachouse, according to the Passive House Association of Ireland (PHAI), a new low energy design initiative comprising passive house designers and contracHouse Association of Ireland (PHAI), a new low energy design initiative comprising passive house designers and contrachouse designers and contractors.

This house was designed as a passive solar home by architects at Solar Northern; designers of Post And Beam Homes who eventually became Woodhouse.The house is built on styrofoam insulated foundation walls and concrete floor which serves as a thermal flywheel to hold heat from the sun in heating months before and after winter solstice and moderate summer temps in house when the sun is not shining in the house due to summer sun angles.

Home the construction on passive house goes well!

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.

Build - It - Solar Blog: Cristian's Earth Sheltered Passive Solar Home in Romania Cristian is an engineer in Romania, and has designed, built, and lived in this passive solar, earth sheltered house for two years.

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

«Our initial estimation is that by building to passive house the scheme could altogether save up to # 25,000 a year in energy costs, with some residents being able to save up to # 900 in a three - bedroom home.»

When Southern Housing decided to redevelop a 1.5 acre site on the island to create new and much needed affordable homes, the council translated words to action by giving fi nancial support to enable the landlord to build the homes to the passive house standard.

Selling someone on a straw bale house, earth ship or solar passive home can be difficult, but if they could rent one and live in it for a few months they may understand the benefits as well as the life style changes required and be more open to having such a home as their primary residence.

Green homes, passive house design, and modern architecture are our forte.

Designing and building a massive temple to modernism with an emphasis on reduced energy consumption is more common than ever, and, the question of big expanses of glass notwithstanding, it is possible to build dream homes that meet the passive house standard.

While embracing traditional farmstead design made it trickier for this new build home in the Scottish Highlands to meet the coveted passive house standard, mixing modern standards of super-insulation with vernacular farmhouse architecture ultimately led to the creation of a very special home for proprietors Jeanette and Jon Fenwick — one that picked up a coveted UK Passivhaus Award in 2016.

The island of Manhattan, known worldwide as the heart of New York City, is not yet home to any large, well - known passive house - compliant buildings.

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.

Built with a timber frame insulated with straw - bale, and featuring an extensive suite of ecological and recycled materials, this stunning North Yorkshire home also produces more energy than it consumes, making it the first straw - bale building in the world to reach the brand new «passive house plus» standard.

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.

But along the way he discovered the passive house standard and let its principles guide his way towards a warm, airtight and healthy home.

But will homes designed using the UK's national methodology come close to passive house levels of comfort?

However, the two homes were certified to the less onerous AECB Silver Standard, which is based on passive house principles of fabricfirst design and high quality ventilation, and is designed using the Passive House Planning Package softhouse principles of fabricfirst design and high quality ventilation, and is designed using the Passive House Planning Package softHouse Planning Package software.

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

Super-insulation between joists under the wooden floor and a specialized energy recovery ventilator customized to distribute axillary heat and cooling throughout the home's two wings are key contributors to passive house level performance.

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.

Compared to the passive solar technique of using a lot of south facing glazing, the LTMS 1) allows more control over the solar heat gain — it can be turned down or shut off if the solar gain becomes more than the house can use for part of the day, and 2) It eliminates the large heat loss (especially at night) associated with the large amount of south glazing in conventional passive solar homes.

But presuming the house is as comfortable, healthy and energy efficient as any certified passive house, it looks like they — along with the whole team behind the project — have produced a rather unique and beautiful new low energy home.

The client points out that while PHPP, the passive house design software, allows homes to go above the overheating threshold of 25C ten per cent of the time, this still equates to about one month a year of overheating.

The latest in a long line of affordable passive house schemes from trailblazing housing association Hastoe, this new development at Outwell, Norfolk features 15 brand new passive homes.

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

This appears to be a problem for new homes in general, rather than for passive houses per se.

While passive houses are designed to meet maximum average temperature targets, there are no such requirements in Irish or UK building regulations — meaning many highly insulated new homes are being built without regard to whether orientation, form, layout and / or lack of shading will run the risk of causing unacceptably high or low internal temperatures.

By building or retrofitting to achieve resilient design, we can create homes that will never drop below 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit even if the house is totally cut off from power and heating fuel — they can do that with high levels of insulation, top - performing windows, passive solar gain, and other features that I've been covering in these RDI blogs.

Once you've designed and built a home with passive solar features, and the house is close to airtight and superinsulated, what fuels do you suggest?

At the same time, Wexford developer Michael Bennett & Sons is now planning to offer passive house certified homes in Enniscorthy for just $ 170,000.

Good suggestion about illustrating how passive house works in existing homes.

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.

A passive retrofit in Co Meath offers a template that could be applied across much of the Irish housing stock: a long, dark, 1970s bungalow was transformed into a bright modern home that's now warm and comfortable.

Built with passive cooling and flexibility in mind, this family home is a prototype for low - cost, energy - efficient affordable housing.