Sentences with phrase «passive house scheme»

Not content with being Ireland's largest certified passive house scheme, Silken Park is also the first scheme by a commercial house builder to achieve the Irish Green Building Council's new Home Performance Index sustainability certification.

By then Hastoe Housing were specialists in the delivery of passive house, having delivered the award winning Wimbish affordable housing scheme in 2010 and the subsequent Ditchingham passive house scheme.

«Our initial estimation is that by building to passive house the scheme could altogether save up to # 25,000 a year in energy costs, with some residents being able to save up to # 900 in a three - bedroom home.»

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.

As architects for all of Hastoe's earlier passive house schemes, Parsons & Whittley were unfazed by the challenge, but the timescales required meant that planning amendments had to be kept to a minimum.

The latest in a long line of affordable passive house schemes from trailblazing housing association Hastoe, this new development at Outwell, Norfolk features 15 brand new passive homes.

Not exact matches

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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.

Hastoe Housing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy effiHousing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy effihousing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy efficiency.

Outdoor units serve as the collector for air source heat pumps, including clockwise from above left, units from Mitsubishi and Panasonic (installed as part of Tipperary Energy Agency's SuperHomes retrofit scheme), CTC (an illustration showing the inner workings), and a Thermia unit outside Ireland's first certified passive house retrofit, in Salthill, Co..

So it was no surprise when instructions were received to develop the scheme to the passive house standard, despite the fact that planning had already been gained for something much less ambitious.

We were fortunate to have a planning authority who understood passive house, and who were keen to work with us to deliver the scheme while maintaining the design quality.

One of the lessons learned from Hastoe's previous schemes is how to hand over something as innovative as passive housing to ensure that occupants get the most out of the dwellings.

Broadland's first certified passive scheme in Norfolk is a significant step on one association's journey towards social housing fit for the 21st century.

Construct Ireland, the magazine which evolved into Passive House Plus, featured two of his exemplary sustainable projects, perhaps most notably including a substantial mixed - use scheme on Galway's Forster Street from 2006 that featured passive solar design, external insulation, triple - glazed curtain walling, airtightness, MVHR and renewables amongst other measures.

A development of rapidly built, affordable, all electric passive houses set up to adapt easily to net zero energy, the scheme is also the first by a private developer to meet the Irish Green Building Council's promising new Home Performance Index sustainability certification scheme.

If there's one project that could break down mainstream resistance to sustainable building it's the 59 unit third phase of Durkan Residential's Silken Park housing scheme in Citywest — Ireland's largest certified passive house development to date.