Sentences with phrase «especially passive houses»

We often participate actively in projects focusing on energy - friendly buildings and especially passive houses.

Not exact matches

If you move to an architectural conservation area but want to extensively renovate an existing house, this can be a tricky task — especially if you plan on retrofitting it to the passive house - based Enerphit standard.

This is especially true when the radiant temperature from the surrounding surfaces are within 7.2 degrees from each other as they are in a passive house.

Compared to the passive solar technique of using a lot of south facing glazing, the LTMS 1) allows more control over the solar heat gain — it can be turned down or shut off if the solar gain becomes more than the house can use for part of the day, and 2) It eliminates the large heat loss (especially at night) associated with the large amount of south glazing in conventional passive solar homes.

Duncan Architect is glad to be able to help people jump on the «passive - construction bandwagon,» especially on a project like the HANAC senior housing that will be such a benefit to the community in Corona, Queens.