Sentences with phrase «passive house world»

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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.

ie has just completed a whistle stop tour of ISH in Frankfurt, one of the world's largest building industry expos, where he found passive house solutions featuring heavily amonst the heating and ventilation solutions on offer.

At first glance that temperature difference between Part L1A and passive house might not seem much, but when you consider that the latter also ensures warmer surfaces (achieved through better U-values in opaque elements as well as windows), greatly reduced thermal bridges and some 20 times better levels of airtightness, the comfort levels provided by the two approaches are, frankly, worlds apart.

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.

Elrond is a world leading blogger, architect, and passive house expert.

We built the first passive house — the leading standard of ultra low energy building — in the English speaking world, and we've become a world leader in this standard.

The brain child of Lars Pettersson of Galway based Scandinavian Homes Ltd, it is believed to be the world's first standardized and factory made passive house.

This issue features the world's smallest certified passive house in France, and the first certified passive house on New Zealand's South Island.

«People who are interested in passive - house design have a different approach about how they want to live and exist in the world,» says Frisk.

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.

There are currently more than 30,000 passive houses in the world, and that number is growing.