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- Airtightness and airtightness measurement @planning:refurbishment_with_passive_house_components:thermal_envelope
- t losses. That is why airtightness standards have been set for many years and why we still have them in current regulations. It is still widely beleived that poor airtightness ensures good ventila... ir change rate necessary for good quality air can be ensured with mechanical ventilation. At the very... through joints causes discomfort and heat losses because the heat cannot be recovered from air lost t
- Overall retrofit plan for step-by-step retrofits to EnerPHit Standard
- e, deep renovations carried out step by step have been the focus of a consortium of 14 partners all ac... costs for retrofits of residential buildings have been invested into single measures or packages of re... udy projects with at least one retrofit step have been completed by April 2016, 9 more projects are cu... a more efficient heating system, which could not be installed for now. In other multi-family building
- Windows in a step-by-step retrofit
- y-step retrofit ====== Authors: Eva Vahalova and Benjamin Krick (Passive House Institute) ===== 1. I... done step by step. Often, new windows are put in between tenants, or a window may be in such bad shape that it cannot wait. If a façade is renovated, any windows renewed “in the meantime” will still be in good shape and not need retrofitting. In addit
- Step-by-step Retrofits towards EnerPHit Standard in social housing in Spain
- ctions of existing buildings. There is a large number of buildings in poor conditions. Their dwellers ... lt to perform community retrofits in common areas because every change or intervention has to be ratified by the majority of owners. Furthermore, it is ve... howing damages that did not exist in the building before. They become obvious shortly after finishing
- Refurbishment with Passive House components - introduction
- tep of the refurbishment the question that should be asked is: which alternative is more “worthwhile“?... |{{:picopen:economy.png|}}|//If insulation is to be applied, it should be done properly.\\ This basic principle applies to older buildings and new\\ cons... operly carried out, the facade\\ will not need to be renovated again for a long time.\\ Retrofitting w
- Component Award 2016: Affordable ventilation solutions for retrofits
- of the building stock in Germany was constructed before 1989. Solutions that are easy to integrate in such buildings will be crucial towards providing high-quality ventilatio... he growing retrofit market. The concept will only become popular on the market in the long run if controlled ventilation with heat recovery becomes more affordable. ===== 2. Aspects of afford
- Step-by-step deep retrofit and building integrated façade/roof on a 'million program' house
- artments in Göteborg (Gothenburg), which has long been run as a cooperative, will demonstrate a cost e... t includes that the existing concrete façade will be externally insulated and covered with thin film s... and more effective crystalline solar modules will be installed on the roof. New Passive House-certified doors and windows will also be installed and demand controlled ventilation coupl
- Improving thermal bridges and airtightness in existing buildings @planning:refurbishment_with_passive_house_components:thermal_envelope
- ls to the extent that the thermal bridge addition becomes smaller or equal to zero with regard to the ... \ in old buildings?**//|\\ Can this approach also be applied in the case of modernisations of old buildings? That is highly desirable, because moisture damage due to thermal bridges often... hows a section through an old building that is to be modernised. The additional uninterrupted layer of
- Economic analysis for the retrofit of a detached single family house to the EnerPHit standard
- insulated internally by 10cm of mineral wool) has been externally insulated with 20cm of expanded poly... with mortar glue and thermal bridge free dowels, before being rendered with an acrylic render. The slab-on grade was already insulated by a 6cm layer of ... lation directly on the slab, so buried walls have been insulated externally on the perimeter of the sl
- Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) in Step by Step Retrofitting Projects
- n Step by Step Retrofitting Projects ====== //Isabel Sánchez, Cristina Fernández, Elena Rico, César P... climates but has spread around the world. It has been proved to work extremely well in Mediterranean ... ls on retrofitting projects is highly recommended because it improves the energy efficiency of the obs... ability. The most common systems where BIPV could be used on refurbishment projects are ventilated faç
- Insulation measures for the external envelope @planning:refurbishment_with_passive_house_components:thermal_envelope
- the type of building component, these figures may be even more extreme. In the case of a roof, the U-v... isation is, how to realise the connection details between refurbished and un-refurbished buildings com... ponents. If, for example, the exterior wall is to be renovated first, the existing roof overhang will usually be too short for a 30 cm insulation layer. Alternati
- Prospects for the modernisation of existing buildings using highly efficient components
- increasing range of such building components has been developed in recent years. As demonstrated by a number of examples, in the case of existing buildings i... logy available today. However, this may not even be necessary in the case of modernisations, as the a... reason why the existing system cannot continue to be used. On the contrary, the existing heating surfa
- Passive House refurbishment - thermal envelope
- asures for the external envelope]] {{:picopen:members_only.png?25}} \\ \\ ===== Interior insulation... r insulation|Interior insulation]] {{:picopen:members_only.png?25}} \\ \\ ===== Thermal bridges ===... on eergy efficient modernisation]] {{:picopen:members_only.png?25}} [[planning:refurbishment with Pa... nvelope:airtightness|Airtightness]] {{:picopen:members_only.png?25}} [[planning:refurbishment with Pa
- Influence of retrofitting on daylighting @planning:refurbishment_with_passive_house_components:mechanical_systems
- hting has very many positive features that should be considered when modernizing a building. For insta... al effects, optimized daylighting also has energy benefits. For example, reducing artificial light per... buildings have defined daylight openings that can be altered only minimally. Retrofits can also have a... * Existing obstructions whose architecture cannot be influenced (atria, etc.) \\ An automated assessm
- Floor Replacement: Svartbäcksvägen @planning:refurbishment_with_passive_house_components:thermal_envelope
- is a light concrete block villa from the 1950’s, being step-by-step retrofitted to the EnerPHit stand... ll rooms. As in many places in Sweden, the ground beneath this family dwelling is pure rock and also h... where the concrete foundation stops and the wall begins, since this is the exact point where the floo... he authors. \\ While certain marked articles have been created with the support of the EU, they do not