Sentences with phrase «met passive house»

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.

Even though SIPs are inherently airtight, Paul Doran wanted to ensure it met the passive house target of 0.6 air changes per hour.

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.

Nonetheless, given the very low wall U-values required (around 0.08 W / m2K) in order for the house to meet passive house, insulating externally was not easy — 250 mm of external wall insulation (EWI) was needed, which Bow Tie managing director Rafael Delimata described as a «builder's nightmare» to install.

It's sometimes said to be hard — perhaps too hard — to get a small house to meet the passive house standard.

«This told us that with an external airtightness strategy there was no chance of meeting the passive house airtightness level — and even Enerphit could not be guaranteed, so the strategy was changed to use an internal air barrier.»

All new buildings will be required to meet the passive house standard or equivalent, where reasonably practicable.

Designing and building a massive temple to modernism with an emphasis on reduced energy consumption is more common than ever, and, the question of big expanses of glass notwithstanding, it is possible to build dream homes that meet the passive house standard.

Despite some setbacks, this passive house in Roscommon managed to meet the passive house standard for fairly standard costs — all while emphasising natural materials like untreated timber, cellulose and sheep's wool.

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.

With an intricate design based on the concept of two pitched - roof sections that overlap, this eye - catching timberframed Sussex home proves you can meet the passive house standard with just about any shape.

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

The use of an oak frame constrained the size and shape of the house, but the need for a compact dwelling also lent itself to meeting the passive house standard.

Pat Doran Construction advised Matt that it wouldn't take much extra to get their design to meet the passive house standard.

This remarkably low cost build in rural Co Meath adds to the evidence that it's possible to meet the passive house standard on a tight budget — with a number of additional green technologies thrown in for good measure

But in some ways, meeting the passive house standard was easier in the warm Mexican climate.

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.

On completion of the project, Jessop estimated that meeting the passive house standard adds around 10 to 12 % to build costs in New Zealand.

The Villa is a sophisticated and totally sustainable design that meets all passive house requirements.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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».

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.

And even though he didn't set out to build a passive house, he managed to meet the standard while doing almost all of the work in conjunction with his father, while exceeding the targets of Ireland's nearly zero energy building definition.

Although the Beehive did not quite meet the Enerphit (passive house retrofit) standard based on calculations done by Clare when the building was completed, there is reason to believe that it would fare better if re-assessed.

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.

Projects such as Wain Morehead Architects» latest certified passive house prove that in the hands of the right architect, meeting the standard can inform rather than restrict architectural expression.

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.

Lenny Antonelli visits a new residential development in rural Carlow that boasts only the second and third certified passive houses in Ireland, and encouragingly, finds that meeting and exceeding the coveted passive standard wasn't as difficult as expected.

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.

To meet the definitions of an energy - stingy passive house, the apartments must be newly (and much more thickly) insulated, equipped with more efficient appliances and lighting, and more energy - efficient windows and doors will be installed.

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.

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.