Sentences with phrase «low energy buildings»

But how does natural ventilation fare when subjected to the same degree of scrutiny, and can it work in low energy buildings?

I have increasingly found good structural engineers vital to the success of low energy buildings, especially when the budget is tight.

Political priorities since the first oil crisis in 1974 have led to national policy positions that have undermined advances in renewable technologies, mandatory standards, and financial business cases for low energy buildings.

When it comes to low energy building design, the heat is truly on.

The demand for lower energy buildings was supported by high crude oil prices, which peaked at the equivalent of $ 117 per barrel following the Iranian revolution in 1979.

The nursery has been designed to be a very low energy building.

For technical criteria for the Passive House, EnerPHit and PHI Low Energy Building Standard click here >

In the second instalment of this column, architect and DIT lecturer Simon McGuinness outlines the key priorities for the industry to learn in order to deliver successful ultra low energy buildings in 2017 and beyond.

The homes also happen to meet the Passive House Institute's standard for buildings which, for one reason or another, can't quite make passive: the PHI low energy building standard.

Specialist low energy building product manufacturers Quinn Building Products have been announced as the main sponsors of the World nZEB Forum, which combines pre-forum workshops on 15 November and a conference on 16 November.

67 % of readers enquired about airtightness products, making it the most popular enquiry; Next came insulation on 65 %, with passive house & low energy build systems neck and neck with heat recovery ventilation on 57 %; 47 % of people enquired about rainwater harvesting, making it the most popular non-energy related category; 80 % of readers enquired about one or more types of renewable energy technology.

Construct Ireland has been credited as playing a key role in the introduction of world class low energy building regulations for new homes in Ireland - with mandatory targets including 60 % energy and carbon reductions compared to 2005 standards and the installation of renewable energy systems.

Passive House is the German system of super low energy buildings that essentially have no furnace, and instead heat themselves with saved heat from the occupants and appliances.

PHI certifies only FINISHED projects that have been tested and shown to meet the Passive House, EnerPHit, or PHI Low Energy Building criteria.

Assessment of thermal bridges is the low hanging fruit lining the path to passive house and low - energy building, according to leading thermal modeller Andy Lundberg of Passivate, who says that taking the time to understand thermal bridging and to minimise and calculate it properly is essential to delivering cost optimal low energy buildings without an Achilles heel.

Marc Ó Riain is the president emeritus of the Institute of Designers in Ireland, a founding editor of Iterations design research journal and practice review, a former director of Irish Design 2015, a board member of the new Design Enterprise Skillsnet and has completed a PhD in low energy building retrofit, realising Ireland's first commercial nZEB retrofit in 2013.

John Hearne reveals the crucial role that user - friendly heating controls play in ensuring that a theoretically low energy building delivers the expected results.

Our aims are to: Promote and facilitate the construction of verifiable low energy buildings based on the Passive House concept.

Delivering a genuinely low energy building is quite another.

In fact, we should really stop talking about low energy building design as if it's something that will happen in the future, and take on board the fact that we are in the final phases now of implementing the nearly zero energy building (nZEB) standard across Europe, including the UK.

Hugh Whiriskey was planning for his Co Galway low energy build long before he began designing the house.

This is potentially a significant development for passive house, a proven ultra low energy building strategy which is often undermined by the relatively crude assumptions in the Irish regulatory guidance and Deap software.

While naysayers continue to point to the intermittent supply of solar and wind, large - scale energy storage; the massively underestimated potential of energy efficiency; and the rapid advance of smart grid technology and truly low energy building infrastructure all point to an energy future that will look nothing like our past.

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.

Low energy buildings behave differently, and the industry's broad failure to get to grips with building physics means that some considerable risks — overheating, poor indoor air quality and both surface and interstitial condensation, never mind failure to deliver anticipated energy savings — won't be discovered until tens of thousands of buildings have been built, and the damage is done.

This issue's selection features ultra low energy buildings from Mexico, Germany, New Zealand and Italy, and illustrates how widely the energy efficiency specification can vary in different climate zones.

Globally applicable Based on extensive scientific preliminary analyses, the criteria were adapted in such a way that they can now be applied without any restrictions in all climates globally for all energy standards and building types (i.e. for Passive House, EnerPHit and Low Energy Building Standards, including residential and non-residential buildings).

At Trunk Low Energy Building we have seven years of work under our belts for exactly this audience and we understand their needs very well.»

Long term growth and sustainability: With up - training workers for more skilled jobs, making buildings that are healthier and more comfortable, while eliminating wasted expenditures on energy — Passive House and very low energy buildings are a cornerstone to New York City's long term growth and sustainability.

«Political priorities since the first oil crisis in 1974 have undermined advances in renewable technologies, mandatory standards, and financial business cases for low energy buildings.»

UPDATE Readers in the know about Passivhaus advise that I should point out that there is the EnerPHit standard for renovations and the PHI Low Energy Building Standard «suitable for buildings which do not fully comply with Passive House criteria for various reasons.»

Over 100 experts in ultra low energy building will address the International Passive House Conference, which takes place in Frankfurt this weekend.

Heffernan was one of the pioneers of low energy building in Ireland.

Inspired by the school's forest school ethos, the low energy building uses locally sourced natural materials.

He notes that «there are two paradigms in low energy building.

Low energy building and airtightness specialists Partel have warned of the importance of ensuring any flat roof construction is properly designed to prevent interstitial condensation and the accumulation of moisture.

Trunk Low Energy Building has announced a brand new venture, Trunk CLT, which provides a specialist structural engineering, fabrication and erection service for any client or architect who desires an inherently low energy cross laminated timber shell solution for their project

New York City Local Law 701 - A has just passed, bringing with it a great victory for the low energy buildings community.

Workshop: The Decarbonisation of Low Energy Buildings 2016 South Pacific Passive House Conference, Melbourne, Australia, February 12th, 2016

Oil Heating in Low Energy Buildings - Supplement to «Heating Systems in Low Energy Buildings: A Comparison»

Architectural design principles for low energy buildings and renewable technologies were informed initially by Solar 1 at MIT as early as 1939, with a small number of architects developing optimally oriented houses for solar heating using trombe walls and seasonal water storage tanks through the 1960s.

However, the arrival of Thatcher and Reagan to power in 1979 and 1980 resulted in a collapse of oil prices over a six year period, destroying the demand for low energy buildings and destroying the fledgling renewable energy industry.