Sentences with phrase «of passive house building»

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

Not exact matches

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

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..

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.

As another example, occupants of the passive house Lancaster Co-housing development also reported high satisfaction with their homes in a building user survey, including with the air quality: none said the ventilation was noisy, in fact some commented that you couldn't actually hear it to tell whether it was running.

One problem familiar to passive house designers is the form factor of small buildings.

Although it would doubtless have been out of the question on this site, Patrick Osborne agrees that a new build passive house — fitted out to a similar standard — would not necessarily have cost more, and might even have cost less.

Retained as a consultant on the build, one of his first jobs was to take the architect's design and adapt it to passive house specifications.

This seems to be a function of the way quality is embedded in the whole build process with passive house; everyone is tied in to delivering quality, almost micromanaged.

Three of these are new four - bedroom terraced houses, built to the passive house standard, and the first new social housing built by Lambeth council for ten years.

A diagnostic initial blower door test, done when the external envelope was completed on one of the development's show houses, took place on December 12 and delivered a worldbeating result of 0.16 air changes per hour (ACH), well inside the passive house standard of 0.6 ACH and the best result this magazine has ever noted for a masonry building.

The middle house, the one built in 1990, is around 12C and the passive house is about 17C, and that's over a period of time when all the houses were unoccupied and unheated.»

What is really interesting though is that this new model shows that the basics of building a passive house dwelling are more constant than we thought — 300 mm of insulation, triple - glazing, MVHR, built with a compact form, thermal bridge - free and airtight, of course.

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.

Once built, 19 of the 20 passive houses had measured flow rates that matched the design rate (though two were border line).

The rigor of this model is key to the success of passive house in delivering buildings with heating demand as low as promised.

«From a passive house point of view I was initially surprised over the summer by the effect that passive energy inputs have on the internal temperature in a low - loss building, effects that were hardly apparent in our old house, like sunshine, cooking, people.

Three years ago quantity surveyor Ross Cremin set out from scratch with the goal of self - building a passive house on a site in rural County Longford.

All new buildings in south - east Dublin must be built to the passive house standard or demonstrably equivalent levels, in a move that may lead to the construction of upwards of 20,000 passive houses by 2022.

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.

ie has just completed a whistle stop tour of ISH in Frankfurt, one of the world's largest building industry expos, where he found passive house solutions featuring heavily amonst the heating and ventilation solutions on offer.

If a passive solar natural building feels like the right style of tiny house for you, these techniques will empower you to build a space that is comfortable year round, while reducing your costs to maintain the home and lowering your carbon footprint.

Professor Ürge - Vorsatz was also one of two co-ordinating lead authors of the chapter on mitigating emissions from buildings in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report, which was published in 2013, and also explicitly advocated for the passive house standard.

«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».

Hastoe Housing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy effiHousing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy effihousing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy efficiency.

The decision means that two of the four Dublin are local authorities will have a passive house or equivalent policy as a planning condition for all new buildings, including dwellings and non-residential buildings.

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.

It was the fact that a passive house would increase the overall quality of life in their home: a quieter environment, fresh air and better air quality, thermal comfort, and overall building durability and longevity of a moisture - controlled home.

People planning to build a new home could save themselves thousands of euro each year by developing a passive house, according to the Passive House Association of Ireland (PHAI), a new low energy design initiative comprising passive house designers and contrachouse, according to the Passive House Association of Ireland (PHAI), a new low energy design initiative comprising passive house designers and contracHouse Association of Ireland (PHAI), a new low energy design initiative comprising passive house designers and contrachouse designers and contractors.

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.

Jon Trinick adds that some people had been concerned that Cameron Close, by not embracing the most cost - effective building forms and completely optimised glazing, might be dangerous to the adoption of the passive house standard and the perception of its affordability.

«It shows what is possible — it shows the extreme of what can be achieved in terms of a housing association building passive house certified houses with an architect who sticks to their vision for the development.»

Daire estimates that the cost of opting for the passive house standard compared with the conventional build originally tendered for was just 6pc higher, which included the heavier insulation and thermal bridge detailing, airtightness work, the MVHR system and the passive house certification.

«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.»

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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.

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.

Also bear in mind that the majority of the wood - framed, high - performance (green based on actual performance metrics as opposed to a checklist) buildings certified as passive house (more than 30,000 buildings in total) were prefabricated.

The table at the start of the buildings chapter which summarizes the chapter's main findings organized by major mitigation strategies lists the passive house standard as the first option in terms of system (infrastructure) efficiency.

As passivehouseplus.ie reported at the time, Dublin City Council voted at the end of May to retain a policy in the draft city development plan requiring the passive house standard or equivalent for all new buildings in the city, in an early sign that Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown's initiative could serve to inspire others.

Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council's decision in April to require the passive house standard or demonstrably equivalent approaches as a planning requirement for all new buildings in the county is a shining example of such a policy.

For instance, Exeter City Council designs all of its buildings to the passive house standard, using 2080 weather files.

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.

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.

A good set of guidelines for building a successful passive solar house.

In her second column documenting her family's self - build passive house project, Nessa Duggan details the process of choosing a build system and finding an architect.

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.

The island of Manhattan, known worldwide as the heart of New York City, is not yet home to any large, well - known passive house - compliant buildings.

New York is home to a growing passive house movement, and will soon be home to the world's tallest high - rise passive house, a 26 - story dormitory building currently under construction as part of the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.