Sentences with phrase «standard building envelope»

A veteran of several wide cavity builds, he supervised the project and worked through each airtightness and thermal detail to ensure a passive - standard building envelope.

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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.

It is an essential part of the Passivhaus Standard to protect the building envelope, to ensure radical energy efficiency and to provide exceptional comfort.

Some approaches to energy efficiency, such as the Passive House standard, include a specific standard of thermal performance for the building envelope.

The international Passive House Standard is achieved through a good level of thermal insulation, climatically optimized Passive House windows, an airtight building envelope, an appropriate ventilation system, and thermal bridge free design.

If the state wants homes to be net - zero energy, it should first ramp up efficiency standards to make sure every building envelope is fully sealed; efficiency is almost always cheaper than rooftop solar.

The Passive House standard proves the most rational, consistent and efficient basis for realising nZEB because it involves optimising the building envelope in accordance with the «fabric first» dictum.

We chose Passive House design — the world's leading building energy standard — to create a building envelope that is extremely efficient to begin with.

Without a provincial air quality standard, there is no way of knowing whether the air within the property has been adequately remediated for such problems as leaky building envelopes, illegal grow - op activities or high levels of continued humidity that produce mould, says CREB.

The proprietary design means the company can expand the envelope of the building, allowing for wider and taller rooms to be transported on standard shipping - container trucks.