Sentences with phrase «for passive house design»

When Sjölander da Cruz Architects sought to turn an old abestos - clad shed into the firm's new studio, it offered the perfect opportunity to put an enthusiasm for passive house design into practice.

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Students investigate passive solar heating design, building model houses, and testing them for...

So this is our simple proposal — a new equation for estimating the internal heat gains in PHPP when designing a passive house.

Although Peter Land's original hopes of securing a passive house retrofit «for free» were disappointed, he is extremely proud of what he, Eco Design and Bow Tie Construction achieved.

«We had all the details ready, they did not all have to be designed afresh for passive house, which would have been impossible in the time,» she says.

These top ten passive solar design tips will give you a good starting point in designing your own tiny house by using the sun to your advantage for both heating and cooling your home.

Build - It - Solar Blog: Cristian's Earth Sheltered Passive Solar Home in Romania Cristian is an engineer in Romania, and has designed, built, and lived in this passive solar, earth sheltered house for two years.

Cristian is an engineer in Romania, and has designed, built, and lived in this passive solar, earth sheltered house for two years.

For instance, Exeter City Council designs all of its buildings to the passive house standard, using 2080 weather files.

It is revealing that the passive house design software, PHPP, actually stands for the Passive House Planning Pachouse design software, PHPP, actually stands for the Passive House Planning PacHouse Planning Package.

While embracing traditional farmstead design made it trickier for this new build home in the Scottish Highlands to meet the coveted passive house standard, mixing modern standards of super-insulation with vernacular farmhouse architecture ultimately led to the creation of a very special home for proprietors Jeanette and Jon Fenwick — one that picked up a coveted UK Passivhaus Award in 2016.

In the third instalment of Nessa Duggan's column on designing and building a passive house for her young family, she describes the process of designing a house to suit the family's lifestyle.

Completed early this year, the new Centre for Medicine at the University of Leicester is by far the largest single building in the UK to meet the passive house standard — and not surprisingly, its design and construction posed tough new challenges for how to meet the rigorous low energy standard on such a large, complicated building.

And yet despite tougher building regs and a surge of interest in the passive house standard there hasn't been any significant palpable change in our knowledge as an industry in terms of what thermal bridging actually is, what the regulations require us to do when it comes to accounting for thermal bridging in buildings, how we minimise thermal bridging effects at design stage, where it sits in the overall context of a BER or Sap assessment and so on.

For him, passive house just means, «good sensible design that you would do anyway if you were trying to construct a house as best you could.»

Leading passive house rooflight supplier DVS recently designed, supplied and installed two large Passive House Institute - certified glass roofs for the University of Leicester's Centre for Medicine, the largest non-residential building built to the passive house standard in thhouse rooflight supplier DVS recently designed, supplied and installed two large Passive House Institute - certified glass roofs for the University of Leicester's Centre for Medicine, the largest non-residential building built to the passive house standard in thHouse Institute - certified glass roofs for the University of Leicester's Centre for Medicine, the largest non-residential building built to the passive house standard in thhouse standard in the UK.

The client had originally looked at the possibility of meeting the Enerphit standard for retrofit, but thought it would be too expensive, though they still planned to adopt passive house design principles.

For John Morehead, a standard such as passive house, in the hands of a skilled architect, can help to reconcile the seeming conflict between design for beauty's sake and the needs of occupanFor John Morehead, a standard such as passive house, in the hands of a skilled architect, can help to reconcile the seeming conflict between design for beauty's sake and the needs of occupanfor beauty's sake and the needs of occupants.

The couple, who held the passive house standard initially as a vague aspiration, bought a smallholding in 2008 and, during the lengthy planning application, the «opportunities to build to passive house designs economically and efficiently were increasing all the time, so we opted to go for fully passive», says Nick.

The latest versions of PHPP and designPH are intended to make passive house design both easier and more accurate than ever before — and to plan for a future powered by renewable energy.

We initially set out to avoid traditional AC through good passive design, plus a whole - house dehumidifier linked to the ERV for the peak summer weeks.

For those interested in the history of passive solar approaches to architecture, I would recommend Anthony Denzer's The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design.

The unique combination of passive design solutions chosen by the team for the different componentsof the house is used to reduce the performance of the active systems to a minimum.

Designed around an existing timber chalet, this striking contemporary house managed to go passive on a budget for one lucky family of six, all while inadvertently blitzing Ireland's forthcoming nearly zero energy building standard.

Team Florida's FLeX House is a prefab home designed to take advantage of passive cooling during the state's more mild months and locks down for full efficiency during temperature extremes.

Of course I am going to lead off with the BC passive house factory, because it is so unusual for an industrial building to win a design award like this.

Some construction methods and components critical to passive house design can not be accurately accounted for in the HERS Index, a performance rating system used with the MN GreenStar program.

There aren't too many passive houses in Australia and if I lived there, I suspect I wouldn't want to be bottled in like this, and prefer Andrew Maynard's approach to green building where you do design for natural ventilation and orientation, and blur the line between inside and outside.

Every passive design, climate controlled and well - insulated house can set up and store heat energy (or maintain an energy gradient) for «use» later.

Although there were good reasons for the house to face west, Gresford's colleague and the company's passive house designer, Francisco Cerezuela, says designing around this orientation but also taking into account the relatively high heat loss form factor (3.29) was «quite challenging».

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.

With Silken Park, passive house certification meant some of the indicators within HPI were deemed to be met but sometimes for slightly different reasons, the designed ventilation system is required principally to guarantee good indoor air quality rather than energy efficiency.

A passive house like the one seen above, a project from Parsons the New School for Design in 2011, is so well insulated that it needs little or no energy for heating and cooling.

Canadian firm Sustainable.TO Architecture + Building has taken the top prize in an international competition to design a passive house for New Orleans.

The challenge was to design a passive house for hot and humid New Orleans focusing on key components of The Passive House Standard and the 2030 Challhouse for hot and humid New Orleans focusing on key components of The Passive House Standard and the 2030 ChallHouse Standard and the 2030 Challenge.