Passive House Plus - The Passive House magazine
Study: gas cooking killing 40,000 Europeans per year Gas cooking is killing 40,000 European people a year in Europe, a major new study has revealed, with an average of almost two years taken off their life in the EU and United Kingdom due to exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emitted during gas cooking.The countries with the highest burden were Italy, Poland, Romania, France and the UK.
Ireland’s first fully passive retrofit - passivehouseplus.ie
Nov 5, 2015 — The ground floor was insulated with 200mm of XPS insulation; the masonry walls were insulated externally with Webertherm mineral wool. When it came to insulating the building fabric, external insulation was the only real option for the walls. Dry lining internally would have sacrificed too much floor space, and would have risked causing condensation behind the …
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Passive House Plus is an award-winning bimonthly magazine focused on highly energy efficient, healthy, sustainable buildings, based on the Passive house or passivhaus standard Passive house isn't just a phrase to bandy about – it's the world's leading energy performance standard
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Nov 20, 2024 — The new Oxfordshire studio of Charlie Luxton Design, the practice of the well-known TV presenter and architectural designer, is deeply impressive for its exhaustive attention to sustainability across every facet of the project, from energy use and embodied carbon to the reuse of materials and the ecological restoration of the three-and-a-half-acre site.
Ireland's 1st hemp-built passive house - passivehouseplus.ie
Oct 30, 2015 — The house was designed by leading Irish green architect Zeno Winkens. Zeno had built with straw bale before, but never hemp. He points out that self-build projects like this will now become virtually impossible under the latest version of Ireland’s building control act, which will require that all builders be registered professional contractors.
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Jul 16, 2024 — The historic Roman city of York is embarking on an ambitious programme to redefine council housing for the 21st century, building 450 mixed-tenure passive houses across eight sites in the city, and unashamedly prioritising walking and cycling, and shared outdoor green spaces, over cars.
Rise of the passive house - passivehouseplus.ie
Feb 1, 2012 — Éasca approved architect Paul McNally of The Passivhaus Architecture Company faced some unique challenges when it came to building a passive timber frame house in Ballinteer, Co Dublin — not only was the site tight, the budget was too. “There was no money to spend on extraordinary finishes or any grand architectural gestures, we really had to go with a very simple design,” he says.
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Although Passive House Plus started in 2012, we're old hands at promoting sustainable building. We've been connecting the leading brands in Ireland's sustainable building sector with a large, highly targeted readership since our predecessor magazine Construct Ireland (for a sustainable future) first published in January 2003.
Block buster - passivehouseplus.ie
Jan 25, 2023 — Click here for project specs and suppliers. Building: Detached 260 m2 cavity wall house Method: Cavity wall Standard: Passive house classic certified Energy bills: €79.50/month total energy costs including standing charges and VAT.
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Passive House Plus is the world's first English language magazine focused on building and upgrading to the world's leading low energy standard - passive house. Published in separate UK and Irish editions, the magazine's focus extends beyond energy efficiency to take in indoor air quality...