Sentences with phrase «of passive house»

Plenty new features show up the way to the next level of passive house design.

Those «forgotten pioneers» also pushed another piece of the passive house concept.

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

And the more airtight the building — which happens to be one of the main goals of passive house — the worse they work.

They also wanted a home that was healthy and as energy efficient as possible, so we proposed the idea of the passive house.

This is one of the prominent design features of this passive house.

But wait, others said, a polar exploration ship from the 19th century was truly the beginning of passive house.

Part of the allure of passive house is the ability to withstand some of the effects of power cuts, he said.

To replicate the thermal comfort of a passive house, high quality radiant heating (usually hot water) is required in the floors and under windows.

One of the main goals of passive house is to decrease our impact on the environment, right?

In the resolution, the Borough Board called for adoption of passive house standards in the city's building code, construction of a public passive house project in Manhattan, and a city campaign enlisting the support of government agencies and officials, the real estate and construction industries, labor, and the public to promote zero net energy standards and renewable energy use.

I was on a tour of passive house projects in Seattle a couple of days ago when someone asked me, «What do you call the outdoor part of a heat pump?

A new development of passive housing on the outskirts of Norwich shows how to combine energy efficiency, ecology and affordability on one exemplary site — and why the city continues to be an unlikely leader in pushing passive house construction in the UK.

A selection of passive & eco builds from around the world, this issue features a rustic holiday home in New Zealand designed using the key principles of passive house design, and the 26 - storey House at Cornell Tech, New York, now the tallest certified passive building in the world.

i think «4» is thinking of passive house as passivhaus which is different than designing a «passive house» with passive strategies.

Our builder had no prior experience of passive house new build or retrofit, but Richard had used the same company for a previous house extension and was confident of a quality job.

Despite the challenges imposed not only by the old and slightly ropey fabric, but also the conservation status of the buildings, the client wanted to carry as many of the benefits of passive house design as possible through to the retrofit.

The company told Passive House Plus that it has the capacity to manufacture 50,000 to 60,000 square metres of passive housing per year at the new facility.

However, Craig was a little wary of dealing with the technical detail — whereas Peter was very much in his comfort zone looking over spreadsheets of passive house data from Alan Clarke.

We lived there for 25 years, and the house functioned very well, but as I became more aware of passive house, airtightness and all these things, it was almost as if I could feel the breeze more in the house.»

The point I am trying to make is if you focus on the basics, and use truly innovative products, yes you can far exceed your energy efficiency goals and you don't have to adhere to the often arbitrary dogma (Lstiburek's word's, not mine) of the passive house movement.

Wolfgang Feist, one of the creators of the passive house concept and a founder and director of the Passive House Institute, will speak in Dublin on 25 October at the 2013 See The Light conference.

This distinctly modern family home is located on an elevated site in West Cork overlooking Roaring Water Bay and has been designed and constructed to meet the high performance criteria of passive house.

Our editor Jeff Colley appeared on a segment on RTE 1's Eco Eye last night, extolling the virtues of passive house, alongside passive house owner Niall Walsh of KNX Tech.

So by the time the completion of Alexandra Crescent was being finalised, it had a willing cohort of people working for the organisation who were already well on the journey to becoming ready adopters of the passive house standard.

«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.»

• Urban, high density and high - rise buildings • Low - rise and rural approaches • Buildings from the arctic to the tropics • Policymakers with growing expertise in implementing Passive House programs • Multi-family housing, both affordable and market rate • Integration of renewable energy • Steel and concrete construction, wood frame construction and cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction • The processes, details and results of passive house projects

That happens, it's just part of Enerphit, and it's reflected in how the matrix of passive house is relaxed for it.»

In this first instalment of his brand new «Help Desk» feature, architect and passive house designer Simon McGuinness of Dublin Institute of Technology invites questions on all aspects of passive house, retrofit and low energy building.

The ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of passive house software tools including PHPP, WUFI Passive and / or THERM as well as AutoCAD skills.

This affordable housing scheme in Exeter not only embraces a suite of healthy and natural materials, but it has vindicated the local council's embrace of the passive house standard, with many of the units requiring no additional heating whatsoever.

The WUFI ® Passive program has the same energy usage capabilities as WUFI ® Plus, but also enables optimization of passive house design by providing monthly energy balances.

Forty years of evolution of the passive house concept in North America, including a trip across the pond and back.

In fact, on a number of passive house projects I've worked on, a house which has a calculated annual heat demand of 15kWh / m2yr initially, will reduce to circa 12 - 13kWh / m2yr once thermal bridges are entered.

This was a core aspect of the development of passive house back in 1995, and the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive also now requires us to build in a cost - optimal way.