Sentences with phrase «of passive house new»

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.

Not exact matches

They'd keep the house they owned in Los Angeles and rent it out as a source of passive income, then they'd buy a new house in San Diego.

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.

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.

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.

Projects like this show that occupants of a typical Victorian terrace house can enjoy every bit as much comfort you'd expect in a brand new 21st century passive house.

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.

John Carney has been monitoring his new passive house, but also the houses in which he lived previously — both of which he still owns.

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.

«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».

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 IslaNew 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 Islanew Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

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.

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.

This new award - winning two - building extension to a primary school in the south of Wales delivers healthy, ultra low energy school buildings — one of which is passive house certified — while pushing the boundaries of timber engineering.

We have a comprehensive range of systems to match all kinds of housing, from apartments, summer residences and old houses in need of restoration work to new buildings and passive houses.

This sparked some great debate and I subsequently caught up with Jon Iliffe of eHaus to find out how to get a passive house in New Zealand.

So the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS), of which I'm a board member, developed new climate - specific passive house standHouse Institute US (PHIUS), of which I'm a board member, developed new climate - specific passive house standhouse standards.

The building scored an impressive airtightness test result of 0.5 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals — a score that not only blitzes the requirement for Enerphit (the passive house standard for retrofit), but comfortably beats the new build passive house target of 0.6 ACH too.

«We've wanted to get to passive house, to a new standard of construction,» says Patrick Durkan.

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 latest in a long line of affordable passive house schemes from trailblazing housing association Hastoe, this new development at Outwell, Norfolk features 15 brand new passive homes.

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.

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.

A lot of science that went into developing this new passive house standard.

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.

It seems that revising and reviewing as each new piece of information becomes available is all part of the balancing act of complying with the planning permission, building regulations, the passive house standard and our priorities and preferences for our family home.

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

Situated at the edge of the small village of Chieveley in West Berkshire, the Old Water Tower is a simple yet distinctive timber - clad four - bed house currently on the market for # 750,000, which is also serving as a showcase for a new passive house based business venture.

A cross section of a triple - paned window at a passive house retrofit project in Brooklyn, New York, illustrates their specialized design.

The challenge was to design a passive house for hot and humid New Orleans focusing on key components of The Passive House Standard and the 2030 Challhouse for hot and humid New Orleans focusing on key components of The Passive House Standard and the 2030 ChallHouse Standard and the 2030 Challenge.

Manhattan is set to get its first residential building that measures up to passive house standards, a set of green guidelines that aim to cut heating costs by 90 % through the use of solar energy, better insulation and other measures, reports Crain's New York.

In late summer of 2012, the first multi-family passive house project — consisting of four passive condos — was completed in Brooklyn, New York.