Sentences with phrase «passive house designers»

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.

One problem familiar to passive house designers is the form factor of small buildings.

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.

In this first instalment of his brand new «Help Desk» feature, architect and passive house designer Simon McGuinness of Dublin Institute of Technology invites questions on all aspects of passive house, retrofit and low energy building.

Another architect and passive house designer, Natalie Walsh, was also appointed and produced the working construction drawings, including 16 details related to cold bridging and airtightness.

Although there were good reasons for the house to face west, Gresford's colleague and the company's passive house designer, Francisco Cerezuela, says designing around this orientation but also taking into account the relatively high heat loss form factor (3.29) was «quite challenging».

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To that end, he works as a project manager, designer, and certified passive house consultant at BRIBURN in Portland.

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.

When he returned to Allen to discuss his plans, Allen told him that he had already signed up with the Passive House Academy's certified passive house consultant & designer course in WicHouse Academy's certified passive house consultant & designer course in Wichouse consultant & designer course in Wicklow.