Sentences with phrase «demands airtightness»
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Learn how to integrate more insulation, airtightness strategies, strategically placed windows, and other common - sense measures to reduce the heating demand required for your next project by 80 %.
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Location: Cameron Close, Freshwater, Isle of Wight Completion date: August 2015 Budget: Total scheme costs circa # 4.9 m Passive house certification: Part certified with remainder pending Space heating demand (PHPP): 14.4 kWh / m2 / yr Heat load (PHPP): 9 W / m2 Primary energy demand (PHPP): 98 kWh / m2 / yr Environmental assessment method: Code for Sustainable Homes level 3 Airtightness (at 50 Pascals): 0.48 ACH Energy performance certificate (EPC): B 84 - 88 Thermal bridging: Details developed to minimise thermal bridging, concentrating on critical junctions and window installations.
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.
This means that the building fabric must achieve required levels of thermal insulation and airtightness, among other factors, to ensure a maximum space heating and cooling energy demand isn't exceeded.
The building's annual heat demand is just 9 kWh / m2 / yr, well inside the passive house mark of 15, and airtightness is 0.4 air changes per hour.
Galway Completion date: January 2014 Budget: confidential Passive house certification: n / a Space heating demand (PHPP): n / a Heat load (PHPP): n / a Primary energy demand (PHPP): n / a Airtightness (at 50 Pascals): 0.56 ACH at 50 Pa or 0.61 m3 / m2 / hr at 50 Pa Energy performance certificate (EPC): pending Carbon performance coefficient (CPC): pending BER: pending Thermal bridging: Armatherm bolt - through structural thermal breaks were used on the cantilevered steel balcony.
The building achieved an airtightness result of 0.43 ACH, comfortably within the target for passive buildings, and has a space heating demand of 15 kWh / m2 / yr.