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«It's very encouraging that they're delivering passive houses at cost parity,» he says.

We will start at Vancouver City Hall, then bike along Ontario Street to visit four passive houses at various stages of construction.

CO2 monitoring of a passive house at Wimbish: lounge (blue) and bedroom (red), January 2013.

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It's easy to save for the next down payment, even in the expensive Denver market, when you don't have to pay any rent or mortgage at all, and have thousands of dollars in passive income from the first few house hacks!

1) not at the top tax bracket yet, thus less expensive to have taxable dollars; 2) before 35, generally significant expenses such as house purchase, engagement ring, wedding, etc.; 3) keep liquidity for potential opportunities — «cash is king»; 4) use after - tax dollars to buy RE and rent it out for another stream of passive income, which is generally not taxable due to depreciation — could be a retirement vehicle in itself.

I'm getting close to having my rental house paid off, probably 3 more years, at which point I will gain around $ 350 per month in «passive» income.

When Brooks returns after a year in Europe just in time for game night at Max and Annie's house, Brooks» passive aggressive and sometimes just aggressive needling just adds to the stress.

«[I] value passive - aggressive art, which is sometimes a fag limbo strategy: pretending passivity, pretending not to fight for ones place at the table, this art may meanwhile house rebarbative aggressions.»

A TSB - funded post-occupancy evaluation of the Wimbish passive house development for Hastoe Housing found that occupants were happy with air quality, «occupied» CO2 levels were generally around or below 1000 ppm, and humidity was «within normal limits» (although marginally low in some houses at the end of each winter).5

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.

The company told Passive House Plus that it has the capacity to manufacture 50,000 to 60,000 square metres of passive housing per year at the new facility.

In Sap the figure would be 3 times that, which is enough to make a house designed to passive house look like it has no heating demand at all 2.

Not so, argue Arboreal Architecture's Harry Paticas and passive house engineer Alan Clarke in an updated version of a paper presented at the 2014 International Passive House Conference, about a highly experimental upgrade to a London townhouse that may point to a sustainable soluhouse engineer Alan Clarke in an updated version of a paper presented at the 2014 International Passive House Conference, about a highly experimental upgrade to a London townhouse that may point to a sustainable soluHouse Conference, about a highly experimental upgrade to a London townhouse that may point to a sustainable solution.

Even though there was only a small passive house movement in the UK at the time, the terraced form dictated by the site would enjoy a good form factor, which encouraged the architects to design to the standard.

In this small sample, six out of seven passive house occupants appeared satisfied with IAQ and comfort, and five out of seven with noise levels, but at least six out of eight of the nonpassive house occupants had a complaint about IAQ, and / or noise, and / or draughts.

Along with a much wider ecological agenda, the house employed fabric first principles of insulation and airtightness, and met passive house design targets at a time when the standard was still in its infancy in the UK.

In October 2015, PYC Systems carried out the first of several air tests at the Hilltop project in Richard's Castle on the Hertfordshire — Shropshire border, Architype's first small scale residential passive house project.

Although the construction techniques used for a passive house are essentially the same as for a typical home, builders have to be at the top of their game, sealing every hole and seam to make the house airtight.

Wolfgang Feist, one of the creators of the passive house concept and a founder and director of the Passive House Institute, will speak in Dublin on 25 October at the 2013 See The Light conferhouse concept and a founder and director of the Passive House Institute, will speak in Dublin on 25 October at the 2013 See The Light conferHouse Institute, will speak in Dublin on 25 October at the 2013 See The Light conference.

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

It's certainly passive house architecture at its best, and a great example of modern architecture to boot.

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.

«While a passive house takes care of the heating to a certain extent, we'd like to reduce the [environmental] impact of domestic use, so we'd look at fitting solar PVs and that kind of thing.»

It's all one of the best - looking passive houses that we've ever seen here at Passive House Plus.

Karl Parsons's former colleague at Warm, Jon Trinick agrees — he says that when a passive house is complicated or close to the margins of compliance, success is more dependent than ever on the quality of construction — «and the contractor helped by being awesome.»

Challenge - project was not initially designed to be passive house, i was hired as a consultant at foundation stage.

«At the other extreme, the architect may have a strong vision for the site and buildings that is at odds with a cost - effective passive house solution, and the energy consultant must compromisAt the other extreme, the architect may have a strong vision for the site and buildings that is at odds with a cost - effective passive house solution, and the energy consultant must compromisat odds with a cost - effective passive house solution, and the energy consultant must compromise.

The table at the start of the buildings chapter which summarizes the chapter's main findings organized by major mitigation strategies lists the passive house standard as the first option in terms of system (infrastructure) efficiency.

As passivehouseplus.ie reported at the time, Dublin City Council voted at the end of May to retain a policy in the draft city development plan requiring the passive house standard or equivalent for all new buildings in the city, in an early sign that Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown's initiative could serve to inspire others.

At first glance that temperature difference between Part L1A and passive house might not seem much, but when you consider that the latter also ensures warmer surfaces (achieved through better U-values in opaque elements as well as windows), greatly reduced thermal bridges and some 20 times better levels of airtightness, the comfort levels provided by the two approaches are, frankly, worlds apart.

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.

According to Professor Bjørn R. Sørensen at the Energy Technology Research Group, Buildings and Energy Program area at northern Norway's Narvik University College, authorities are eying 2020 as a year by which technical regulations would bring passive house specifications into play.

This is what you get when one of Ireland's most experienced low energy builders creates a home for his own family, with help from one of the country's foremost ecological architects — a modern and elegant passive house that pays detailed attention to sustainability at every turn.

I wasn't involved at the time and don't know all the details, but now there are two separate groups promoting passive house in North America.

Seriously, my point is that passive house may be great at pushing the edges of what's possible, but if we make it the example we encourage, good luck with scale.

That question gets dealt with at every passive house conference and seminar.

Compared to the passive solar technique of using a lot of south facing glazing, the LTMS 1) allows more control over the solar heat gain — it can be turned down or shut off if the solar gain becomes more than the house can use for part of the day, and 2) It eliminates the large heat loss (especially at night) associated with the large amount of south glazing in conventional passive solar homes.

So before we go on to talk about thermal bridging in the context of nZEB, passive house and Part L compliance, let's take a step back and look at thermal bridging for what it really is, where it comes from and what the numbers tell us.

The building scored an impressive airtightness test result of 0.5 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals — a score that not only blitzes the requirement for Enerphit (the passive house standard for retrofit), but comfortably beats the new build passive house target of 0.6 ACH too.

And yet despite tougher building regs and a surge of interest in the passive house standard there hasn't been any significant palpable change in our knowledge as an industry in terms of what thermal bridging actually is, what the regulations require us to do when it comes to accounting for thermal bridging in buildings, how we minimise thermal bridging effects at design stage, where it sits in the overall context of a BER or Sap assessment and so on.

Airtightness: 9 of the 15 houses in phase 2 achieved less than 0.534 ACH at 50 Pa, well below the passive house target.

«Today, you wouldn't question [using] the passive house standard windows and doors throughout,» says Whiriskey, «but at the time, we did what we could within budgeting constraints.

At the same time, passive design specialists, MosArt got in touch with the county council to talk about the Passive House Institute's Europhit programme.

Hastoe expound passive house mainly because it is highly effective at relieving fuel poverty, a huge problem in their sector.

One third of the units at a new social housing development in the East Midlands have met the passive house standard — but the entire project was inspired by fabric first, low energy design.

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.

The client had originally looked at the possibility of meeting the Enerphit standard for retrofit, but thought it would be too expensive, though they still planned to adopt passive house design principles.

This process is then repeated at the change of season to ensure the differences between heating and cooling a passive house are well understood.