Sentences with phrase «achieving passive house»

Once the form factor — the ratio of external surface area to floor area — is over three, achieving the passive house standard becomes noticeably more difficult.

Achieving passive house airtightness is a huge challenge for any retrofit, and even more so when, as in this case, the structure is shared with neighbouring buildings.

He goes on: «There was nothing technically insuperable about achieving passive house standard on this retrofit, using knowledge, materials, and techniques that are available now.

Continuing the Borough's reputation for high - quality development, a key integration has been environmental sustainability, with an ambition to achieve both passive house and Breeam Excellent certification.

Terraces would have been more economical and would have made it easier to achieve passive house, but would not have been quite right, so instead we have pairs of semis that resemble detached houses.»

A quick review of the site identified that while the terrace houses could be adapted to the passive house standard, the three remaining units had a poor orientation and form factor and were unlikely to achieve the passive house standard cost - effectively.

Not exact matches

You achieve eudaimonia not through passive thrills like watching marathon reruns of House Hunters International, but through gratifying activities that challenge you and stick with you, from cooking a great marinara sauce to playing tennis.

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..

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.

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.

Although Peter Land's original hopes of securing a passive house retrofit «for free» were disappointed, he is extremely proud of what he, Eco Design and Bow Tie Construction achieved.

The project gave the team valuable insight into the relative difficulties and financial implications of achieving Enerphit versus full passive house.

«It shows what is possible — it shows the extreme of what can be achieved in terms of a housing association building passive house certified houses with an architect who sticks to their vision for the development.»

«We wanted to achieve a high level of airtightness and also ventilation, to achieve as close to [the passive house standard] as possible.

The seminar will demonstrate how passive house and nZEB standards can be achieved using single leaf construction, while delivering improved thermal and structural performance.

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.

Despite this, the building achieved an airtightness of 0.39 air changes per hour, well within the passive house standard of 0.6.

Airtightness: 9 of the 15 houses in phase 2 achieved less than 0.534 ACH at 50 Pa, well below the passive house target.

All of the affordable properties, including the passive house units, needed to achieve Code for Sustainable Homes level four.

As well as remaining true to the original sketch design, this passive house also managed to achieve an A1 BER.

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.

Not content with being Ireland's largest certified passive house scheme, Silken Park is also the first scheme by a commercial house builder to achieve the Irish Green Building Council's new Home Performance Index sustainability certification.