Sentences with phrase «passive house standard»

On paper, deciding to build these buildings — which had not been designed as passive houses — to fully certified passive house standard seems like a bold move.

In the resolution, the Borough Board called for adoption of passive house standards in the city's building code, construction of a public passive house project in Manhattan, and a city campaign enlisting the support of government agencies and officials, the real estate and construction industries, labor, and the public to promote zero net energy standards and renewable energy use.

He goes on: «There was nothing technically insuperable about achieving passive house standard on this retrofit, using knowledge, materials, and techniques that are available now.

NEW YORK — At a meeting led by Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, the Manhattan Borough Board adopted a resolution endorsing «passive house» building standards for ultra-energy efficient buildings and called for the city to undertake construction of a public project in Manhattan that complies with passive house standards.

So the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS), of which I'm a board member, developed new climate - specific passive house standards.

Meanwhile Prewett Bizley Architects took on the detailed design of the retrofit, and CTT Sustainable Architecture (since superseded by Passivhaus Homes Ltd) worked up Anne Thorne's designs into a fast - to - erect, passive house standard construction, using their own PH15 timber frame system.

In fact, thanks to an epic retrofit to full passive house standard, it is one of the most energy efficient houses in London — and probably one of the most energy efficient Victorian houses in the country.

As early as in 1999, RAICO Bautechnik had the first timber curtain wall certified meet the German passive house standard.

Following a period when the construction of Alexandra Crescent took a back seat in favour of a refit and extension to the main St Patrick's complex that was completed three years ago, it was decided to build the units out to certified passive house standard once building work resumed in 2014.

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.

At Ithaca, construction is finishing up on a third neighborhood that includes seven homes certified under the ultra-efficient passive house standard.

It demands airtightness of 1.0 air changes per hour and space heating demand of 25kWh / m2 / yr (as opposed to 0.6 air changes per hour and 15 kWh / m2 / yr for the original passive house standard).

Resolving some typical construction problems might involve a compromise of some kind, but when the house is being built to the exacting passive house standard, there is arguably less flexibility in this regard.

Considered, proven approaches — and the 25 year old passive house standard stands out uniquely as a safe approach that is tried and tested, cost - effective, and delivers extraordinary comfort and energy performance — must be central to our plans.

In 2014, PHIUS introduced its new climate - specific passive house standard.

According to Green Energy Futures, Scott Kennedy of Cornerstone told 8th Avenue that they could save $ 450,000 on mechanical systems and another $ 150,000 on natural gas if they built to a passive house standard.

The first blower door test result was 0.59 air changes per hour (ACH), prior to insulating the envelope, which everyone was keen to improve on as it only marginally passed the passive house standard and was prior to fitting services, which are known to increase the risk of air leaks.

«Phase two was really our test bed to see if we could get close to the passive house standard on a commercial scale,» Barry Durkan of Durkan Residential told Passive House Plus.

Three of these are new four - bedroom terraced houses, built to the passive house standard, and the first new social housing built by Lambeth council for ten years.

It's sometimes said to be hard — perhaps too hard — to get a small house to meet the passive house standard.

A diagnostic initial blower door test, done when the external envelope was completed on one of the development's show houses, took place on December 12 and delivered a worldbeating result of 0.16 air changes per hour (ACH), well inside the passive house standard of 0.6 ACH and the best result this magazine has ever noted for a masonry building.

Taking all of these factors together, very low U-values needed to be achieved in the walls, floor and roof in order to reach the passive house standard.

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.

Upgrading a historic home to the passive house standard typically means leaving the façade untouched to preserve the building's historic appearance, but the team behind this fully passive retrofit in Kensal Green took a totally different approach.

Although Peter Blood was familiar with the passive house standard for new build, Patrick Thomas introduced him to the Enerphit standard for refurbished properties.

All new buildings in south - east Dublin must be built to the passive house standard or demonstrably equivalent levels, in a move that may lead to the construction of upwards of 20,000 passive houses by 2022.

Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council adopted its county development plan for 2016 - 2022 on Wednesday 17 February, including a motion worded by Passive House Plus editor Jeff Colley that all new buildings must be built to the passive house standard or equivalent.

Dublin City Council has voted to make the passive house standard or demonstrably equivalent evidence - based approaches mandatory for all new buildings in the city, after a

All new buildings will be required to meet the passive house standard or equivalent, where reasonably practicable.

Building to the passive house standard was «not the ultimate goal», she added, but «a very important intermediate goal» on the road to a built environment that produces more energy than it consumes.

The influential Emissions Gap Report, published by the UN Environment Program each year to track the progress of governments on reducing their carbon emissions, has for the first time advocated for the passive house standard in its 2016 edition.

Professor Ürge - Vorsatz was also one of two co-ordinating lead authors of the chapter on mitigating emissions from buildings in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report, which was published in 2013, and also explicitly advocated for the passive house standard.

«Cities are becoming the powerhouse of action, more than national governments,» she said, describing the decision by Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council in Dublin to make the passive house standard mandatory for new buildings as «fantastic».

The tiny house was also constructed using the Healthy Tiny Home Kit from Mainstream Corporation, which includes eco-insulation, a Lunos heat recovery ventilation system and a system of membrane wraps for the home which essentially allow you to build your tiny home to passive house standards and prevent the possibility of mould from ever building up in your walls.

Chapter five of the report, which focuses on energy efficiency, includes a dedicated section on the passive house standard.

However, the passive house standard which we know today was initially informed by these early solar houses, depended more on the developments after the first oil crisis.

Dublin City Council has voted to make the passive house standard or demonstrably equivalent evidence - based approaches mandatory for all new buildings in the city, after a similar policy was enacted in Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council in February.

In 1988, inspired by the early precedents, Wolfgang Feist and Bo Adamson developed the passive house standard in the backdrop of historically low energy prices.

The house was designed to passive house standards and is fully certified by the German Passive House Institute.

So by the time the completion of Alexandra Crescent was being finalised, it had a willing cohort of people working for the organisation who were already well on the journey to becoming ready adopters of the passive house standard.

Daire estimates that the cost of opting for the passive house standard compared with the conventional build originally tendered for was just 6pc higher, which included the heavier insulation and thermal bridge detailing, airtightness work, the MVHR system and the passive house certification.

This brought us to research the passive house standard for our project.

«We wanted to achieve a high level of airtightness and also ventilation, to achieve as close to [the passive house standard] as possible.