Sentences with phrase «of passive house design»

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.

The decision to retrofit the Beehive using the principles of passive house design was taken near the outset.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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..

The passive house idea is so sensible, where instead of covering your house in green gizmos that generate heat and power, you design the systems so you don't need them.

The Camden Passivhaus by Bere Architects puts paid to many of the complaints people have about passive house design.

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.

So it functioned as a kind of independent check on the passive house aspects of the design,» Peter says.

Furthermore one third of the non passive house designs were not balanced, which would affect flow rates in different rooms, the efficiency of the heat recovery, and, therefore the temperature of the supply air (this is not covered in part F).

Although Peter Land's original hopes of securing a passive house retrofit «for free» were disappointed, he is extremely proud of what he, Eco Design and Bow Tie Construction achieved.

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 Innovate MVHR meta - study17 now has system design and installation information on the MVHR in 54 dwellings — a mixture of passive house and non-passive house.

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.

This passive solar greenhouse is designed to house a productive, edible ecosystem which is also combined with a variety of other complementary farming techniques such as producing fish and poultry food from insects, growing mushrooms from used coffee grounds and growing poultry, fed from by - products of the system.

This year I chose to tackle the challenging issue of passive solar design versus Passive House.

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

We invite you to join us, to galvanise your staff, to organise students into groups of four, and to learn about low energy and passive house design in a fun and constructive manner, as well as to join us at the conference.

«The house has a passive solar design, with most of the windows installed on the southern exposure.

Darryl believes that the natural ventilation of passive solar design is not mutually exclusive to the design of Passive House homes in New Zealand.

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.

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

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.

«The quality of the homes is very high due to the attention to detail given both to passive house design and construction,» Hulmes says.

The House of Energy was designed by BG Architektur and certifi ed by leading passive house certifier and consultant Herz & House of Energy was designed by BG Architektur and certifi ed by leading passive house certifier and consultant Herz & house certifier and consultant Herz & Lang.

Analysis by Wain Morehead Architects has shown that the space heating demand of a West Cork - based passive house designed by the firm rises from 11.5 kWh / m2 / yr to over 19.5 kWh / m2 / yr when moved to Donegal

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 the third instalment of Nessa Duggan's column on designing and building a passive house for her young family, she describes the process of designing a house to suit the family's lifestyle.

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.

But will homes designed using the UK's national methodology come close to passive house levels of comfort?

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

However, the two homes were certified to the less onerous AECB Silver Standard, which is based on passive house principles of fabricfirst design and high quality ventilation, and is designed using the Passive House Planning Package softhouse principles of fabricfirst design and high quality ventilation, and is designed using the Passive House Planning Package softHouse Planning Package software.

It can also be designed according to passive house standards, while there is also the option of taking it off - the - grid by installing a solar power array, composting toilet, water tanks and a gray water system.

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The building, which has an estimated design lifetime of 60 years, will be Norway's largest passive house to date.

Following the efforts of passive house consultants Nick Grant and Alan Clarke to prove that PHPP, the passive house design software, may have previously underestimated the benefits from internal heat gains in smaller buildings, the latest version of PHPP has been updated to address the issue.

The same applies to passive house design and PHPP, but the way passive house design is assessed has a high degree of built - in safety when it comes to the inclusion of heat loss from thermal bridges.

And yet despite tougher building regs and a surge of interest in the passive house standard there hasn't been any significant palpable change in our knowledge as an industry in terms of what thermal bridging actually is, what the regulations require us to do when it comes to accounting for thermal bridging in buildings, how we minimise thermal bridging effects at design stage, where it sits in the overall context of a BER or Sap assessment and so on.

Though the building wasn't designed as a passive house, careful attention to airtightness using Ampack's range of tapes and membranes, with particular attention paid to key junctions such as windows, chased walls and a counterbattened service void in ceilings, leading to an impressive pressure test result of 0.48 ACH.

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The client points out that while PHPP, the passive house design software, allows homes to go above the overheating threshold of 25C ten per cent of the time, this still equates to about one month a year of overheating.

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.

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.

For John Morehead, a standard such as passive house, in the hands of a skilled architect, can help to reconcile the seeming conflict between design for beauty's sake and the needs of occupants.