Sentences with phrase «passive house design principles»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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».

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.

The decision to retrofit the Beehive using the principles of passive house design was taken near the outset.

Yet builders are installing air conditioning in new houses that ignore every single passive design principle (along with solar panels pointing west to add meaningless green bling).