Sentences with phrase «airtightness standard»
However, it is not possible to meet the Passivhaus airtightness standard using windows and doors manufactured to lax North American standards.
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Despite increasing standards of insulation and airtightness, housing developers face few requirements to provide better ventilation and indoor air quality for new home buyers — beyond knocking extra holes in walls.
When it came to upgrading an old stone - walled building to the Enerphit standard — with all the inherent challenges such an upgrade poses for energy, airtightness and moisture — who better to have as your client and defacto site manager than a professor of physics?
It would also have been easier to achieve, given the slightly less exacting airtightness requirements, and the likelihood that a more standard specification for insulation would have been feasible.
Along with a much wider ecological agenda, the house employed fabric first principles of insulation and airtightness, and met passive house design targets at a time when the standard was still in its infancy in the UK.
After the air barrier is complete, but before the drywall is up, we will conduct another blower door test to make sure that the building's airtightness is below the Passive House retrofit standard of 1 ACH50.
Certified equipment must pass stringent standards for thermal comfort, effective heat recovery rate, electrical power consumption, airtightness, balancing and adjustability, sound insulation, indoor air quality, and frost protection.
Architects would benefit considerably more from reading this section of the book than by assuming they understand the Passivhaus Standard by way of the oft - quoted passivhaus energy consumption and airtightness benchmarks.
Daire estimates that the cost of opting for the passive house standard compared with the conventional build originally tendered for was just 6pc higher, which included the heavier insulation and thermal bridge detailing, airtightness work, the MVHR system and the passive house certification.
«We wanted to achieve a high level of airtightness and also ventilation, to achieve as close to [the passive house standard] as possible.
One of the big contradictions inherent in Irish building practice is that despite ever higher levels of airtightness, we're not matching that with appropriate ventilation standards.
Despite this, the building achieved an airtightness of 0.39 air changes per hour, well within the passive house standard of 0.6.
Higher energy standards during building and airtightness testing are two key factors in achieving better homes across Europe.
Come and learn how to use a blower door to assess the airtightness of your structure, a necessary step for achieving the Passive House standard.
The building scored an impressive airtightness test result of 0.5 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals — a score that not only blitzes the requirement for Enerphit (the passive house standard for retrofit), but comfortably beats the new build passive house target of 0.6 ACH too.
«The challenge was achieving a high degree of airtightness and minimal thermal bridging cost effectively, with some standard and some innovative but simple details.»
A veteran of several wide cavity builds, he supervised the project and worked through each airtightness and thermal detail to ensure a passive - standard building envelope.
Being a big, old building with lots of different junctions, meeting the Enerphit standards for airtightness and thermal bridging was always going to be the biggest challenge.
Building to the Passive House standard reduces our buildings» operational energy demand to an optimized extent through passive measures and components such as insulation, airtightness, heat recovery, solar heat gains, solar shading and incidental internal heat gains.
The PHI standard also has an airtightness requirement (≤ 0.6 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals, ACH50) and a comfort requirement based on temperatures in the house.
British architect Elrond Burrell notes in his post, Passivhaus; Comfort, Comfort, Comfort, Energy Efficiency that the standard for airtightness (0.6 air changes per hour) makes the house completely draft - free.
Another application is for buildings which narrowly miss the Passive House Standard on account of unplanned deviations in construction, e.g. airtightness level not meeting the requirements.