Sentences with phrase «passive house standard construction»
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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.
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The seminar will demonstrate how passive house and nZEB standards can be achieved using single leaf construction, while delivering improved thermal and structural performance.
Completed early this year, the new Centre for Medicine at the University of Leicester is by far the largest single building in the UK to meet the passive house standard — and not surprisingly, its design and construction posed tough new challenges for how to meet the rigorous low energy standard on such a large, complicated building.
At Ithaca, construction is finishing up on a third neighborhood that includes seven homes certified under the ultra-efficient passive house standard.
In light of objections by the construction industry to plans by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to make the passive house standard mandatory in the area, we decided to republish this 2012 article from Village magazine by our deputy editor, Lenny Antonelli, which details the history of the industry's objections to higher standards.
«We've wanted to get to passive house, to a new standard of construction,» says Patrick Durkan.
Pat Doran Construction advised Matt that it wouldn't take much extra to get their design to meet the passive house standard.
Meanwhile the Construction Industry Federation has erroneously argued that if the passive house standard is introduced, very few new homes will be built in Dun Laghaoire Rathdown in 2016.
The passive house standard may be acceptable as an alternative method of compliance with Ireland's stringent energy efficiency regulations, according to a leading expert in energy and construction law, leaving the door open to a similar approach in the UK.
Since the construction of the first passive house in Germany in 1990, an estimated 15 to 20,000 houses have been built to what is arguably the world's leading low energy building standard.