Sentences with phrase «passive house works»

Good suggestion about illustrating how passive house works in existing homes.

Speakers will present a wide range of case studies and research that, according to the Passive House Institute, demonstrates that passive house works «in all climates and for practically any type of building».

Not exact matches

There's an opportunity cost lost either way, I put 30K into buying a house to rent, with lots of work day - to - day but potential higher cash flow forever, or I lock 30K into a retirement account now, never to be seen again, to hope for compounding and just enough passive income from dividends to live off way later...

The House bill also rewards the idle or «passive» owner, not the people «actively» working for the company.

If we were to stop working today and just continue living as is and without moving from our apartment, just the passive income from the dividends and the rental property would cover all of our essential expenses including all food, housing and transportation costs.

Laura Poulette (Issues 3 & 5) Laura is an artist who works with hand stitched fabric and natural dyes, although lately a saw is more likely in her hands as she and her husband are building a passive solar house.

Arguing about stupid shit and being passive aggressive doesn't set a nice tone for the day so I threw in the towel and I decided that working from home was in order and I managed to get some errands and chores done around the house.

The interesting thing is that by purchasing a smaller house and aggressively paying off the mortgage, it gave them the financial freedom to use a smaller capital base and other passive streams of income to technically have made work optional.

A local contractor, Craig Morgan, who had been lined up to work on the house from the start, had no passive house experience but did have an instinctive grasp of the basic principles.

Peter was also on site whenever passive house specific work was being carried out.

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

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.

«That was a particular challenge,» he says, «working within the restriction of passive house and Breeam, but yet making the building work as a commercial building.»

However, Cowper Care's next construction project, a 100 - bed nursing home in Kimmage, which Daire is now working on, won't be to passive house specifications, mainly due to the cost and scale, but he will be taking on board a number of the details and principles he and his team has learnt working on Alexandra Crescent.

«Chris was a very progressive architect, he was switched onto everything and he was very willing to work with us in solving any issues that arose... and Gerry was very keen to pursue the passive house thing.

The ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of passive house software tools including PHPP, WUFI Passive and / or THERM as well as AutoCAD skills.

And even though he didn't set out to build a passive house, he managed to meet the standard while doing almost all of the work in conjunction with his father, while exceeding the targets of Ireland's nearly zero energy building definition.

We have a comprehensive range of systems to match all kinds of housing, from apartments, summer residences and old houses in need of restoration work to new buildings and passive houses.

PHnw is pleased to offer its own regional Building Directory as we work to promote passive house in the Pacific Northwest.

And the more airtight the building — which happens to be one of the main goals of passive house — the worse they work.

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.

Paul Doran also says that it was the toughest project he's ever worked on from an energy efficiency point of view: «Enerphit is special forces training for passive house builders, and this one was particularly tough.»

Crowley says John's design and specifications, working with assistant architect Shane Fenton, were robust, although he wonders if it was necessary to have seven different wall types: «You won't find too many passive houses with seven different wall types.»

Architect (planning drawings & project supervision): Mola Architecture Architect (working drawings & passive house details): Natalie Walsh Contractor: Pat Doran Construction M&E engineer: Ethos Engineering Structural engineer: Garland Consultancy Passive house consultants: Integrated Energy, Target Zero Passive house certification: Mead Consulting BER: Rate My Home Quantity surveyor (client): KMCS Quantity surveyor (contractor): RTC Surveying Electrical contractor: Jones Engineering Group Plumbing: Prospect Plumbing & Heating Underfloor heating contractor: Base Engineering Underfloor heating system: Polytherm MVHR: Flynn Heat Recovery Air - to - air heat pump: Panasonic Fan coil units: Tech Refrigeration Solar thermal: Alternative Energy Ireland Airtightness testing: Greenbuild EPS insulation: Airpacks External render: Neotherm External insulation contractor: Enda Linnane Construction Mineral wool insulation: Isover Airtightness products: Siga Breather membranes: Ecological Building Systems Floor insulation: Xtratherm Thermal breaks: Partel Low thermal conductivity blocks: Quinnlite Roof insulation & airtightness contractor: Baker & Co Windows & doors: Rationel Curtain walling: Lakeside Windows Roof windows: Tradecraft Pet door: Petwalk Polished concrete floor: Renobuild Roofing: Christy McMahon Carpentry

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.

There are still some bugs to work out, such as giving passive solar and thermal mass its proper due (trombe walls are still seen as windows and heat loss) and my own personal pet peeve is that the reference house assumes 13 SEER air conditioning.

Such a tool, he points out, is well timed to capitalise on the requirement to manage and record work inherent in standards such as passive house and Ireland's Building Control Amendment Regulations.

He hired Mike Jacob of Trunk Low Energy Building as his project manager and, although it was their first time working together, they got on so well they have now teamed up to provide a «one - stop - shop» service for the design and build of passive houses.