Sentences with phrase «first passive house»

Since the construction of the first passive house in Germany in 1990, an estimated 15 to 20,000 houses have been built to what is arguably the world's leading low energy building standard.

It was one of the UK's first passive house projects, and the first to be built with a traditional British cavity wall system.

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

We built the first passive house — the leading standard of ultra low energy building — in the English speaking world, and we've become a world leader in this standard.

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It's easy to save for the next down payment, even in the expensive Denver market, when you don't have to pay any rent or mortgage at all, and have thousands of dollars in passive income from the first few house hacks!

Renting out my first property (Condo) after buying a house in 2005 was a key move for my passive income journey.

The first blower door test result was 0.59 air changes per hour (ACH), prior to insulating the envelope, which everyone was keen to improve on as it only marginally passed the passive house standard and was prior to fitting services, which are known to increase the risk of air leaks.

Alan Clarke is one of the UK's foremost passive house experts, but says this was his first experience of using the component method of certification for Enerphit.

Buildings: Three new four - bedroom terraced passive houses & six low energy flats retrofitted into a Victorian terrace Standard: Certified passive new build & low energy fabric - first retrofit Location: Akerman Road, Lambeth, London Completed: December 2016 Total budget: # 2m Build method: Timber frame new build / deep retrofit with internal insulation to Victorian terrace.

Retained as a consultant on the build, one of his first jobs was to take the architect's design and adapt it to passive house specifications.

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.

Three of these are new four - bedroom terraced houses, built to the passive house standard, and the first new social housing built by Lambeth council for ten years.

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.

In October 2015, PYC Systems carried out the first of several air tests at the Hilltop project in Richard's Castle on the Hertfordshire — Shropshire border, Architype's first small scale residential passive house project.

Passive House Plus is the world's first English language magazine focused on building and upgrading to the world's leading low energy standard - passive hHouse Plus is the world's first English language magazine focused on building and upgrading to the world's leading low energy standard - passive househouse.

As early as in 1999, RAICO Bautechnik had the first timber curtain wall certified meet the German passive house standard.

Today RAICO is the first curtain wall system vendor in the world to offer passive - house certified curtain walls made of wood, steel and aluminum — setting the benchmark in the industry.

However, the passive house standard which we know today was initially informed by these early solar houses, depended more on the developments after the first oil crisis.

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.

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The table at the start of the buildings chapter which summarizes the chapter's main findings organized by major mitigation strategies lists the passive house standard as the first option in terms of system (infrastructure) efficiency.

Outdoor units serve as the collector for air source heat pumps, including clockwise from above left, units from Mitsubishi and Panasonic (installed as part of Tipperary Energy Agency's SuperHomes retrofit scheme), CTC (an illustration showing the inner workings), and a Thermia unit outside Ireland's first certified passive house retrofit, in Salthill, Co..

I have now been living in our brand new passive house for 3 weeks and wish to report my first impressions:

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.

In this first instalment of his brand new «Help Desk» feature, architect and passive house designer Simon McGuinness of Dublin Institute of Technology invites questions on all aspects of passive house, retrofit and low energy building.

Built with a timber frame insulated with straw - bale, and featuring an extensive suite of ecological and recycled materials, this stunning North Yorkshire home also produces more energy than it consumes, making it the first straw - bale building in the world to reach the brand new «passive house plus» standard.

Our NZE passive house in northern NJ (PHIUS project 1054) is heated and cooled by two 12k BTU Mitsubishi ductless Mr. Slim HyperHeat minisplits, with one on the first floor and one on the second.

First launched in 2008, PHIUS established the Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC ®) credential to distinguish accomplished passive house professionals in the marketpHouse Consultant (CPHC ®) credential to distinguish accomplished passive house professionals in the marketphouse professionals in the marketplace.

It's crucial to know the difference, as these misconceptions are commonly what prevent people from deciding to go down the passive house route in the first place.

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.

Passive houses feel different to ordinary buildings, which is one of the reasons the International Passive House Days — and the opportunity to experience passive houses first hand — are such a central part of the Passive House Institute's efforts.

Broadland's first certified passive scheme in Norfolk is a significant step on one association's journey towards social housing fit for the 21st century.

The brain child of Lars Pettersson of Galway based Scandinavian Homes Ltd, it is believed to be the world's first standardized and factory made passive house.

This issue features the world's smallest certified passive house in France, and the first certified passive house on New Zealand's South Island.

Fortunately, if you apply the passive strategies first, the active heating and cooling components become really dinky and inexpensive; Alex heats and cools his super-insulated house with an off - the - shelf mini-split air source heat pump.

He built his first passive solar house in northern Vermont in 1974, and has lived off the grid since 1975.

Danish architect Olav Langenkamp and his family are getting ready to move into the first certified passive house in Denmark, called Ebeltoft and shown above, later this month.

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.

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.

Third, the cantilever shades the windows of the first story of the house so as to block out the harsh summer sun, while allowing plenty of light and passive solar heat gain in the winter when the sun is lower on the horizon.

He hired Mike Jacob of Trunk Low Energy Building as his project manager and, although it was their first time working together, they got on so well they have now teamed up to provide a «one - stop - shop» service for the design and build of passive houses.

Mexico's first certified passive house is the retrofit of a roof - top apartment in the country's capital.

Manhattan is set to get its first residential building that measures up to passive house standards, a set of green guidelines that aim to cut heating costs by 90 % through the use of solar energy, better insulation and other measures, reports Crain...

Manhattan is set to get its first residential building that measures up to passive house standards, a set of green guidelines that aim to cut heating costs by 90 % through the use of solar energy, better insulation and other measures, reports Crain's New York.

Dallas now has its first certified passive house, which is extremely energy efficient and insulated.

In late summer of 2012, the first multi-family passive house project — consisting of four passive condos — was completed in Brooklyn, New York.

While across the country, builders are embarking on creating passive houses from the ground up, McDonald is one of the first to purchase an old home and retrofit it.

This is somewhat ironic, because the first concept passive house ever was built in Saskatchewan in the 1970s by passive house pioneer Harold Orr.