Sentences with phrase «own passive house»

An earthship, straw bale, or ICF passive house with only the need for a supplemental wood stove for heat is another way to go.

The house was contracted by a local resident who had researched German «passive houses» and wanted to have one of his own.

Why not passive solar, passive cooling, passive house?

These houses sip so little energy that this is almost just a cherry on top, but it doesn't take a very big solar panel to generate all the electricity a passive house needs.

You don't need a lot of green gizmos for a passive house.

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.

With more than 360 mm of recyclable wooden fibers and a heat transition coefficient of 0.11 W / m ² K, the insulation of the Villa's exterior walls matches that of passive houses.

Most passive houses allow about 500 square feet per person, a comfortable though not expansive living space.

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.

One might also point out that this house is no less boxy than the modern passive house designs we have shown; it is in fact a perfect box.

And in Germany, passive houses cost only about 5 to 7 percent more to build than conventional houses.

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

Thus there is a strong case that a passive house can produce less than 10kWh / m2 / yr and still comply with the law, on the proviso that a «reasonable proportion» is being generated.

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.

Alan Clarke is one of the UK's foremost passive house experts, but says this was his first experience of using the component method of certification for Enerphit.

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.

This uncertified passive house on Ireland's south - west coast makes a striking - yet - sensitive architectural statement.

«With a combination of strategies like improved g - values and alterations to the window openings to enable more night ventilation, we managed to hold the overheating down to a figure 1.9 % of hours above 25C in PHPP — allowable under passive house, but higher than we would ideally have liked.»

With a little care in design and on site, airtightness targets that may seem impossibly tough are anything but, argues leading architect and certified passive house designer Simon McGuinness.

Nonetheless, given the very low wall U-values required (around 0.08 W / m2K) in order for the house to meet passive house, insulating externally was not easy — 250 mm of external wall insulation (EWI) was needed, which Bow Tie managing director Rafael Delimata described as a «builder's nightmare» to install.

Now we see that it is really quite easy to build a small passive house according to the functional definition, but rather harder to build a large one.

«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 Plus.

«As a physics professor, Peter had the knowledge not just to understand passive house principles — but to dig deep into the science behind the standard too.»

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.

Central to the scheme's success has been the creation of simple, buildable details, a systematic project management approach and on - site training from passive house certifiers The Passive House Academy and airtightness specialists clíoma house.

2AECB 2008, A comparison of the passive house Planning Package (PHPP) & SAP.

But this ultra small house might be an extreme case, so for the basis of a paper presented to the 2014 International Passive House Conference in Aachen we carried out a general analysis of the internal heat gain assumptions in passive house design3.

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.

CO2 monitoring of a passive house at Wimbish: lounge (blue) and bedroom (red), January 2013.

Buildings: Three new four - bedroom terraced passive houses & six low energy flats retrofitted into a Victorian terrace Standard: Certified passive new build & low energy fabric - first retrofit Location: Akerman Road, Lambeth, London Completed: December 2016 Total budget: # 2m Build method: Timber frame new build / deep retrofit with internal insulation to Victorian terrace.

The original plan was to retrofit to the Enerphit standard, «but as I was going to have to borrow money anyway to get to Enerphit, I thought «in for a penny, in for a pound» — why not go the extra distance and go for full passive house.»

John Carney decided not to seek passive house certification, though the house operates well inside all of the passive targets.

«It is not so much an issue of passive house itself, so much as just getting it right.

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.

A TSB - funded post-occupancy evaluation of the Wimbish passive house development for Hastoe Housing found that occupants were happy with air quality, «occupied» CO2 levels were generally around or below 1000 ppm, and humidity was «within normal limits» (although marginally low in some houses at the end of each winter).5

A local contractor, Craig Morgan, who had been lined up to work on the house from the start, had no passive house experience but did have an instinctive grasp of the basic principles.

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.

The first airtightness test has taken place at phase three of the Silken Park development at Citywest, which is set to be Ireland's largest residential passive house scheme.

The clean constant air has helped with my breathing, as I suffer with heart problems and asthma,» was the view of one resident in a Gentoo passive house bungalow.3 Some scientific studies have also suggested that the health of people with respiratory conditions improves when mechanical ventilation is installed in their homes.4

So this is our simple proposal — a new equation for estimating the internal heat gains in PHPP when designing a passive house.

He goes on: «There was nothing technically insuperable about achieving passive house standard on this retrofit, using knowledge, materials, and techniques that are available now.

However modeling showed that even using very conservative assumptions, based on natural ventilation alone, the overheating stayed below the 10 % of hours over 25C required for passive house certification.

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.

To be certified as a passive house a dwelling needs to demonstrate compliance with the standard in the PHPP energy model.

In Sap the figure would be 3 times that, which is enough to make a house designed to passive house look like it has no heating demand at all 2.

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.

If you move to an architectural conservation area but want to extensively renovate an existing house, this can be a tricky task — especially if you plan on retrofitting it to the passive house - based Enerphit standard.

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.