Sentences with phrase «making passive house»

Dublin City Council has voted to make the passive house standard or demonstrably equivalent evidence - based approaches mandatory for all new buildings in the city, after a

«Cities are becoming the powerhouse of action, more than national governments,» she said, describing the decision by Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council in Dublin to make the passive house standard mandatory for new buildings as «fantastic».

Designing a dwelling to take advantage of the sun's free heat is a big part of what makes a passive house passive.

In light of objections by the construction industry to plans by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to make the passive house standard mandatory in the area, we decided to republish this 2012 article from Village magazine by our deputy editor, Lenny Antonelli, which details the history of the industry's objections to higher standards.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Sensing an opportunity, I made the move to on the one hand increase passive income by renting out my old house and on the other purchase my ideal San Francisco home for the second half of my life.

Most of the material things in life that matter most (e.g. house, education, passive income, career advancement, etc.) require thinking ahead and making plans.

As a property investor who owns a variety of rental houses, condos, and a few larger apartment complexes, I used to deal with my own building management, but now, I'm in a spot where I'm making a lucrative passive income and leaving my property management operations to a full time employee.

The interesting thing is that by purchasing a smaller house and aggressively paying off the mortgage, it gave them the financial freedom to use a smaller capital base and other passive streams of income to technically have made work optional.

Moving them all back to purpose made passive solar houses in little idyllic clusters, with farms around, is going to take come convincing people, and would take decades to centuries.

The cabin of Nanuq is built to the passive house's principles, which by its design makes the use of a heating system almost needless.

This uncertified passive house on Ireland's south - west coast makes a striking - yet - sensitive architectural statement.

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.

Hi Alison, With 100 passive houses, 200,000 HPwES houses in ten years, vs around 700,000 residential HVAC units shipped last month, «Building Science» looks like a hobby having failed in 35 years to even make it to insignificant in terms of scale.

Although the construction techniques used for a passive house are essentially the same as for a typical home, builders have to be at the top of their game, sealing every hole and seam to make the house airtight.

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.

«That was a particular challenge,» he says, «working within the restriction of passive house and Breeam, but yet making the building work as a commercial building.»

Terraces would have been more economical and would have made it easier to achieve passive house, but would not have been quite right, so instead we have pairs of semis that resemble detached houses.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seriously, my point is that passive house may be great at pushing the edges of what's possible, but if we make it the example we encourage, good luck with scale.

The submission also makes the unsubstantiated claim that Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown's passive house proposal «is highly likely to lead to additional costs for housing in DLR.»

The draft development plan makes no reference to the passive house standard relieving developers of the need to ensure that buildings comply with Part L — or any other part — of building regulations.

«Failure to remove [the passive house proposal] will entail the consideration, by the Minister, of the use of the powers available to him under Section 31 of the Planning Act to ensure the overall coherence of the plan as regards housing supply and housing standards components,» the submission, made by a senior civil servant on behalf of Minister Kelly, states.

That said, it's undoubtedly true that simpler, more compact building forms make it easier and cheaper to build to the passive house standard — though this also applies when building to any standard — so the notion of the boxy passive house endures.

The site quality demands of passive house were recognised and embraced, making the delivery of this exacting standard much easier.

Recently, Joke Dockx, the Director for Promotion of sustainable buildings in Brussels made several presentations in New York City to the USGBC and passive house enthusiasts showcasing the amazing transformation that Brussels has gone through over the past few years.

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.

But with the design already settled, and prompted by New Zealand's low building insulation standards, the clients made a game - changing request: that the dwelling meet the passive house standard.

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.

It's three times lower than the passive house threshold, and no less than thirty - five times tighter than the backstop of 7 m3 / hr / m2 under Irish building regulation, making a mockery of the state's targets.

Knowing that some FinCon attendees are self - fashioned real estate experts, flipping houses for profit and generating passive incomes from real estate, makes it easier to understand that 31 % of respondents would choose the riskiest option.

If you were going to do something that typically produces enormous returns on capital invested (like house - hacking, for example) it would make more sense to do that, and then use the passive income to pay down the student loans.