Sentences with phrase «in passive house design»

However, as the chosen architecture firm Thorne Wyness has significant expertise in passive house design, it made sense to use the standard as a guide.

Not exact matches

Student will answer the driving question: What role do different materials play in maximizing energy transfer into a system, and how can we apply this to design a passive solar house?

The passive house idea is so sensible, where instead of covering your house in green gizmos that generate heat and power, you design the systems so you don't need them.

One might also point out that this house is no less boxy than the modern passive house designs we have shown; it is in fact a perfect box.

With a little care in design and on site, airtightness targets that may seem impossibly tough are anything but, argues leading architect and certified passive house designer Simon McGuinness.

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

In Sap the figure would be 3 times that, which is enough to make a house designed to passive house look like it has no heating demand at all 2.

O'Toole simplified things, putting the design through the passive house design package PHPP in order to ensure that the building fabric delivered, and to help make the house more buildable.

Even though there was only a small passive house movement in the UK at the time, the terraced form dictated by the site would enjoy a good form factor, which encouraged the architects to design to the standard.

Furthermore one third of the non passive house designs were not balanced, which would affect flow rates in different rooms, the efficiency of the heat recovery, and, therefore the temperature of the supply air (this is not covered in part F).

Building the third scheme to the passive house standard has only required a few tweaks to the design of phase two — including the selection of MVHR over DCV, an upgrade from double to triple glazing, and a 40 mm increase in external insulation to the walls, which are all built from single leaf nine inch hollow blocks.

The Innovate MVHR meta - study17 now has system design and installation information on the MVHR in 54 dwellings — a mixture of passive house and non-passive house.

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.

He brought in architects Eco Design Consultants and contractor Bow Tie Construction, who advised him that though Enerphit would undoubtedly be simpler, passive house would be achievable too.

«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.

We invite you to join us, to galvanise your staff, to organise students into groups of four, and to learn about low energy and passive house design in a fun and constructive manner, as well as to join us at the conference.

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.

Darryl believes that the natural ventilation of passive solar design is not mutually exclusive to the design of Passive House homes in New Zealand.

And this is with buildings designed to meet the passivhaus standard benchmarks and modelled in the passive house planning package, not just designed to some notional «passivhaus principles».

This house was designed as a passive solar home by architects at Solar Northern; designers of Post And Beam Homes who eventually became Woodhouse.The house is built on styrofoam insulated foundation walls and concrete floor which serves as a thermal flywheel to hold heat from the sun in heating months before and after winter solstice and moderate summer temps in house when the sun is not shining in the house due to summer sun angles.

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.

A thermal model of the building was created early in the project, allowing the design to be tested and modified to make sure it would meet the desired passive house target space heating demand of 15kWh / m2 per annum.

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.

Green Building Store continues to fine tune passive house design and construction techniques with exacting attention to detail, as demonstrated by its latest superinsulated, stone - clad cavity wall house in West Yorkshire.

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.

Sam Mays Architect In the hands of the right architect, meeting the passive house standard needn't involve compromising on design.

Following the efforts of passive house consultants Nick Grant and Alan Clarke to prove that PHPP, the passive house design software, may have previously underestimated the benefits from internal heat gains in smaller buildings, the latest version of PHPP has been updated to address the issue.

The same applies to passive house design and PHPP, but the way passive house design is assessed has a high degree of built - in safety when it comes to the inclusion of heat loss from thermal bridges.

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.

Though the building wasn't designed as a passive house, careful attention to airtightness using Ampack's range of tapes and membranes, with particular attention paid to key junctions such as windows, chased walls and a counterbattened service void in ceilings, leading to an impressive pressure test result of 0.48 ACH.

At the same time, passive design specialists, MosArt got in touch with the county council to talk about the Passive House Institute's Europhit programme.

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.

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.

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 occupants.

While passive houses are designed to meet maximum average temperature targets, there are no such requirements in Irish or UK building regulations — meaning many highly insulated new homes are being built without regard to whether orientation, form, layout and / or lack of shading will run the risk of causing unacceptably high or low internal temperatures.

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.

By building or retrofitting to achieve resilient design, we can create homes that will never drop below 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit even if the house is totally cut off from power and heating fuel — they can do that with high levels of insulation, top - performing windows, passive solar gain, and other features that I've been covering in these RDI blogs.

Yet builders are installing air conditioning in new houses that ignore every single passive design principle (along with solar panels pointing west to add meaningless green bling).

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

As noted by the panelists, the design and construction team should be trained in the fundamentals of passive house building and design.

«People who are interested in passive - house design have a different approach about how they want to live and exist in the world,» says Frisk.

But after they met architectural engineer Tim Eian — whose company TE Studios has extensive experience in passive - house design — and he explained the method's advantages, «it all made sense,» they say.

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.

This striking certified passive house in the Italian Alps was designed by architects Arthur Pichler and Walter Colombi.

Few concepts in sustainable design have caught on like the passive house.

A cross section of a triple - paned window at a passive house retrofit project in Brooklyn, New York, illustrates their specialized design.

A simple building form, few junctions and minimal surface area are some of the cornerstones of passive house design — but as this spectacular certified passive house in Co Meath proves, rules are made to be broken.