Sentences with phrase «development of passive housing»

A new development of passive housing on the outskirts of Norwich shows how to combine energy efficiency, ecology and affordability on one exemplary site — and why the city continues to be an unlikely leader in pushing passive house construction in the UK.

This was a core aspect of the development of passive house back in 1995, and the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive also now requires us to build in a cost - optimal way.

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As another example, occupants of the passive house Lancaster Co-housing development also reported high satisfaction with their homes in a building user survey, including with the air quality: none said the ventilation was noisy, in fact some commented that you couldn't actually hear it to tell whether it was running.

A TSB - funded post-occupancy evaluation of the Wimbish passive house development for Hastoe Housing found that occupants were happy with air quality, «occupied» CO2 levels were generally around or below 1000 ppm, and humidity was «within normal limits» (although marginally low in some houses at the end of each winter).5

The first airtightness test has taken place at phase three of the Silken Park development at Citywest, which is set to be Ireland's largest residential passive house scheme.

A diagnostic initial blower door test, done when the external envelope was completed on one of the development's show houses, took place on December 12 and delivered a worldbeating result of 0.16 air changes per hour (ACH), well inside the passive house standard of 0.6 ACH and the best result this magazine has ever noted for a masonry building.

Hastoe Housing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy effiHousing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy effihousing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy efficiency.

On 30 May the council met to discuss the chief executive's report on the public consultation in response to the first draft of the development plan, which included a passive house motion based on an adapted version of a wording submitted by Passive House Plus editor Jeff Cohouse motion based on an adapted version of a wording submitted by Passive House Plus editor Jeff CoHouse Plus editor Jeff Colley.

«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.»

As well as that, shortly before he left the organisation, Daire's predecessor had done a course on passive house as part of his professional development and had introduced the company to the idea.

As passivehouseplus.ie reported at the time, Dublin City Council voted at the end of May to retain a policy in the draft city development plan requiring the passive house standard or equivalent for all new buildings in the city, in an early sign that Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown's initiative could serve to inspire others.

Facilitate the development of cost - effective components for use in passive house construction.

This appears to give local authorities enormous scope to set a target such as passive house as a planning condition, ideally in support of requirements in a development plan.

«I disagree that the passive house policy is outside of the scope of the development plan and / or out of order,» said Cuffe.

The draft development plan makes no reference to the passive house standard relieving developers of the need to ensure that buildings comply with Part L — or any other part — of building regulations.

One third of the units at a new social housing development in the East Midlands have met the passive house standard — but the entire project was inspired by fabric first, low energy design.

The latest in a long line of affordable passive house schemes from trailblazing housing association Hastoe, this new development at Outwell, Norfolk features 15 brand new passive homes.

Hastoe Housing Association has released the findings of a two year study on its first passive house housing development, Wimbish inHousing Association has released the findings of a two year study on its first passive house housing development, Wimbish inhousing development, Wimbish in Essex.

A social services organization, the Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee or Hanac, has also jumped on the passive - construction bandwagon for its eight - story 68 - unit senior housing development, to be completed in Queens in summer 2017, said John Napolitano, Hanac's director of community development and planning.

Tom Gresford of London - based Gresford Architects had bought a site — previously owned by Thames Water, and which housed an old and ugly water tower — with a view to designing and building a passive house as a commercial development to demonstrate the financial viability of building one - off homes to the passive house standard.

A development of rapidly built, affordable, all electric passive houses set up to adapt easily to net zero energy, the scheme is also the first by a private developer to meet the Irish Green Building Council's promising new Home Performance Index sustainability certification scheme.

If there's one project that could break down mainstream resistance to sustainable building it's the 59 unit third phase of Durkan Residential's Silken Park housing scheme in Citywest — Ireland's largest certified passive house development to date.