Sentences with phrase «passive house wall»

Not exact matches

With more than 360 mm of recyclable wooden fibers and a heat transition coefficient of 0.11 W / m ² K, the insulation of the Villa's exterior walls matches that of passive houses.

Nonetheless, given the very low wall U-values required (around 0.08 W / m2K) in order for the house to meet passive house, insulating externally was not easy — 250 mm of external wall insulation (EWI) was needed, which Bow Tie managing director Rafael Delimata described as a «builder's nightmare» to install.

Taking all of these factors together, very low U-values needed to be achieved in the walls, floor and roof in order to reach the passive house standard.

Building the third scheme to the passive house standard has only required a few tweaks to the design of phase two — including the selection of MVHR over DCV, an upgrade from double to triple glazing, and a 40 mm increase in external insulation to the walls, which are all built from single leaf nine inch hollow blocks.

As early as in 1999, RAICO Bautechnik had the first timber curtain wall certified meet the German passive house standard.

Today RAICO is the first curtain wall system vendor in the world to offer passive - house certified curtain walls made of wood, steel and aluminum — setting the benchmark in the industry.

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.

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.

She believes the project's tight budget also had a significant impact, explaining: «If we had upped our wall insulation by another 40 mm, we may have reached passive house classification... But the budget wouldn't allow it and we couldn't justify it.»

What is true is that to certify an opaque building element — such as a wall system — as a passive house component, the manufacturer does have to come up with standard connection details which have psi - values of 0.01 W / mK or less.

Though the building wasn't designed as a passive house, careful attention to airtightness using Ampack's range of tapes and membranes, with particular attention paid to key junctions such as windows, chased walls and a counterbattened service void in ceilings, leading to an impressive pressure test result of 0.48 ACH.

Crowley says John's design and specifications, working with assistant architect Shane Fenton, were robust, although he wonders if it was necessary to have seven different wall types: «You won't find too many passive houses with seven different wall types.»

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

It was one of the UK's first passive house projects, and the first to be built with a traditional British cavity wall system.

If you're familiar with any passive house projects, you may be thinking about double - stud walls that are a foot thick or regular walls with 6 to 12 inches of rigid...

There are still some bugs to work out, such as giving passive solar and thermal mass its proper due (trombe walls are still seen as windows and heat loss) and my own personal pet peeve is that the reference house assumes 13 SEER air conditioning.

And a passive house requires a tremendous amount of insulation: 17,000 pounds of dense - pack cellulose in the walls, contained in a 12 - inch «pocket» surrounding the entire house; 2 feet of loose - fill insulation in the roof; triple - pane windows filled with argon gas; and doors so well sealed and insulated that they provide as much protection as the walls in most houses.

Because no cold or heat from the outside can get through, the internal walls and surfaces of a passive house — even the windows — are within a few degrees of the air temperature of the room.

Construct Ireland, the magazine which evolved into Passive House Plus, featured two of his exemplary sustainable projects, perhaps most notably including a substantial mixed - use scheme on Galway's Forster Street from 2006 that featured passive solar design, external insulation, triple - glazed curtain walling, airtightness, MVHR and renewables amongst other measures.