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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.

«We both wanted to be sure we understood the rigours of the passive house standard and to see if the end result was something we liked living in, before suggesting it to clients.

For a start, the plans won't come into force until next year, so there's plenty of time for builders and developers to get to grips with the technical side of the passive house standard, and to ensure tradespeople have the relevant skills.

Not exact matches

The first blower door test result was 0.59 air changes per hour (ACH), prior to insulating the envelope, which everyone was keen to improve on as it only marginally passed the passive house standard and was prior to fitting services, which are known to increase the risk of air leaks.

There are a number of ways that passive house has closed the «performance gap» — including detailed thermal analysis of junctions and windows, and a high standard of on - site quality assurance — but another factor is the use of conservative estimates for internal heat gains.

«Phase two was really our test bed to see if we could get close to the passive house standard on a commercial scale,» Barry Durkan of Durkan Residential told Passive House house standard on a commercial scale,» Barry Durkan of Durkan Residential told Passive House House Plus.

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.

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.

Taking all of these factors together, very low U-values needed to be achieved in the walls, floor and roof in order to reach the passive house standard.

He's gone from a two - room cottage to a passive standard two - storey, by way of a 1990s low - energy house.

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.

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.

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.

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».

Chapter five of the report, which focuses on energy efficiency, includes a dedicated section on the passive house standard.

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.

«We wanted to achieve a high level of airtightness and also ventilation, to achieve as close to [the passive house standard] as possible.

Any local authority seeking to play its part in answering the WMO's call for radical efforts to reduce carbon emissions would be wise to follow the recommendations of another UN agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose latest report on climate change mitigation options, AR5, placed particular emphasis on the passive house standard.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Despite this, the building achieved an airtightness of 0.39 air changes per hour, well within the passive house standard of 0.6.

The draft development plan makes no reference to the passive house standard relieving developers of the need to ensure that buildings comply with Part L — or any other part — of building regulations.

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«Failure to remove [the passive house proposal] will entail the consideration, by the Minister, of the use of the powers available to him under Section 31 of the Planning Act to ensure the overall coherence of the plan as regards housing supply and housing standards components,» the submission, made by a senior civil servant on behalf of Minister Kelly, states.

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.

What is true is that to certify an opaque building element — such as a wall system — as a passive house component, the manufacturer does have to come up with standard connection details which have psi - values of 0.01 W / mK or less.

In light of objections by the construction industry to plans by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to make the passive house standard mandatory in the area, we decided to republish this 2012 article from Village magazine by our deputy editor, Lenny Antonelli, which details the history of the industry's objections to higher standards.

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.

We built the first passive house — the leading standard of ultra low energy building — in the English speaking world, and we've become a world leader in this standard.

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

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.

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

That said, it's undoubtedly true that simpler, more compact building forms make it easier and cheaper to build to the passive house standard — though this also applies when building to any standard — so the notion of the boxy passive house endures.

A quick review of the site identified that while the terrace houses could be adapted to the passive house standard, the three remaining units had a poor orientation and form factor and were unlikely to achieve the passive house standard cost - effectively.

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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.