Sentences with phrase «passive building design»

Keeping with this month's «cities» theme, I want to share a rather cool passive building design that has been around for centuries.

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As part of an undergraduate internship, Taya designed and built a passive - air solar food dehydrator to address the needs of a community in rural Rwanda.

«As a next step, we plan to couple outdoor environmental design with indoor thermal comfort analysis, especially for buildings with an opened atrium and passive design,» says Dr Poh Hee Joo.

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's design and construction seamlessly integrates passive building technologies, renewable wind and solar energy, water treatment facilities, continuously monitored power demand and a smart grid for maximising energy efficiency.

Your role at this stage is only to connect with and build a relationship with a passive Instructional Design candidate.

Students can build the new passive solar design they suggested in their performance task to determine if they improved their design.

Students investigate passive solar heating design, building model houses, and testing them for...

The Alfa Giulietta was designed and built to obtain maximum passive and active safety performance.

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.

Looking at woodant nests can show us how to design to maximize passive solar heating and cooling so that we can minimize energy use in HVAC systems in buildings - one of the biggest energy suckers - and watching the process the organ - pipe wasp uses to build nests can inspire construction processes for quickset materials.

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.

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.

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O'Toole simplified things, putting the design through the passive house design package PHPP in order to ensure that the building fabric delivered, and to help make the house more buildable.

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).

At that time, there were major advances in Building Sector technologies — in glazing materials (heat mirror and low - e coatings), passive and active solar energy systems design and applications, passive and active cooling applications, natural ventilation systems, phase - change materials, moveable insulation, building simulation modeling programs, daylighting systems and controls, energy management systems, night set - back thermostats and occupancy sensors, solar hot water heating, solar thermal electric generation and storage, photovoltaics and advances in low - energy lighting systems, to name jusBuilding Sector technologies — in glazing materials (heat mirror and low - e coatings), passive and active solar energy systems design and applications, passive and active cooling applications, natural ventilation systems, phase - change materials, moveable insulation, building simulation modeling programs, daylighting systems and controls, energy management systems, night set - back thermostats and occupancy sensors, solar hot water heating, solar thermal electric generation and storage, photovoltaics and advances in low - energy lighting systems, to name jusbuilding simulation modeling programs, daylighting systems and controls, energy management systems, night set - back thermostats and occupancy sensors, solar hot water heating, solar thermal electric generation and storage, photovoltaics and advances in low - energy lighting systems, to name just a few.

Canadian houses are generally built without good passive design characteristics — they often have inefficient shapes (i.e. high area to volume ratios), they're generally not oriented towards the sun or they experience significant winter shading.

The two - story office building, designed by ZGF Architects, is superinsulated and relies largely on passive solar strategies for heating in the winter, when outside temperatures can drop into the single digits.

If you want to spend some time with the people who built them and pick up some of the finer nuances of passive solar design, make sure to keep an eye on our annual visitor program, and schedule a time to hang out with us soon.

It draws inspiration from Star Wars gadgetry and features a degree of sustainable design, including passive cooling and recycled building materials.

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 contractors.

And this is with buildings designed to meet the passivhaus standard benchmarks and modelled in the passive house planning package, not just designed to some notional «passivhaus principles».

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.

For decades I have been working in the field of climate - responsive design, eg maximising a building's passive response to climate, and minimising the cost of mechanical response.

Build - It - Solar Blog: Cristian's Earth Sheltered Passive Solar Home in Romania Cristian is an engineer in Romania, and has designed, built, and lived in this passive solar, earth sheltered house for two years.

Cristian is an engineer in Romania, and has designed, built, and lived in this passive solar, earth sheltered house for two years.

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.

Designed and built by a licensed architect for himself and his family, this off grid, passive solar...

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

In this information - packed CD, you'll find articles on everything from making your own solar heat grabber to building solar cookers, to advice on passive solar design.

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.

Green Building Store continues to fine tune passive house design and construction techniques with exacting attention to detail, as demonstrated by its latest superinsulated, stone - clad cavity wall house in West Yorkshire.

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.

The building incorporates passive design features that create an improved thermal envelope that will maintain a comfortable living environment with minimal space heating or cooling.

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The design includes several homes clustered to benefit from roof gardens, building integrated photovoltaics, passive solar strategies, a rainwater recovery system, and sliding, removable, and bendable walls and partitions for flexible occupant use of space.

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

Swatches are global in scope yet local in application, providing location - specific strategies across the built environment at any latitude and in any environment: from interconnected transportation and habitat networks that span entire regions, to elegant passive design solutions to light, heat, or cool individual buildings.

In 1980, he designed and built a passive solar greenhouse retrofit on an urban row home.

«It's my favourite passive house we've done because we designed it from the inside out like a true building should be.

Mr. Holm introduced the idea of «passive design», a major method of designing sustainable architecture, for instance, by controlling the orientation and the size of windows to maximize natural light that flow into buildings.

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 home also draws inspiration from Star Wars gadgetry and features a degree of sustainable design, including passive cooling to reduce the use of air - conditioning and recycled building materials.

As half of a home - building team, I helped design and build harmonious, sustainable and net - zero homes that incorporate clean air systems, passive and active solar energy as well as rainwater collection systems.

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.