Sentences with phrase «passive house design»

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

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.

Of course, he says that if he had been able to work from a clean sheet, the buildings would have been oriented south, they would have been two - storey, etc — basic passive house design principles that meant they wouldn't have had to insulate the roof as much as they did.

Every jog and corner is a problem in passive house design as it creates an opportunity for a thermal bridge.

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.

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.

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

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 new Dungannon home shuns conventional passive house design and embraces the late 19th century Arts and Crafts movement.

When Sjölander da Cruz Architects sought to turn an old abestos - clad shed into the firm's new studio, it offered the perfect opportunity to put an enthusiasm for passive house design into practice.

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.

MosArt was looking for Irish case studies to participate in the programme, in return for which the council could avail of free passive house design consultancy.

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.

The couple, who held the passive house standard initially as a vague aspiration, bought a smallholding in 2008 and, during the lengthy planning application, the «opportunities to build to passive house designs economically and efficiently were increasing all the time, so we opted to go for fully passive», says Nick.

The latest versions of PHPP and designPH are intended to make passive house design both easier and more accurate than ever before — and to plan for a future powered by renewable energy.

Advocates of passive house design promise a lot of benefits, but the past few weeks of cold weather and combined with power failures have tested the mettle of high performance buildings of all kinds.

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.

Windows is what makes or breaks a passive house design.

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.

Green homes, passive house design, and modern architecture are our forte.

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.

The sheer extent of glass in this project is undoubtedly atypical of the sorts of passive house designs that predominate in Ireland and the UK.

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.

A selection of passive & eco builds from around the world, this issue features a rustic holiday home in New Zealand designed using the key principles of passive house design, and the 26 - storey House at Cornell Tech, New York, now the tallest certified passive building in the world.

Some construction methods and components critical to passive house design can not be accurately accounted for in the HERS Index, a performance rating system used with the MN GreenStar program.

Because of the amount of insulation in passive house designs and the mechanical ventilation systems required to manage air changes, and the lack of the need for solar gain through windows in the Australian climate, they can throw out a lot of those things that I thought were in the sustainable design rule book:

«Our design approach with every house of apartment we're building takes the passive house design principles, he says.

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.