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- Passive House and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Connecting an international building standard with global aims
- lopment Goals (SDGs): Connecting an international building standard with global aims====== Author: Giorgia ... efficient, resilient, and healthy environment for building users. * Economic and job creation: Boosting th... providing job opportunities across a spectrum of building professionals, ranging from manufacturing and con... s, through high energy efficiency. * Education: Building capacity and spreading knowledge, both locally an
- What is a Passive House?
- pen:heating_energy_savings_diagram_e.jpg?300}} A building standard that is truly **energy efficient**, **co... t, a Passive House is more than just a low-energy building.\\ \\ * Passive House buildings allow for heating and cooling related energy savings of up to 90% compared with typical building stock and over 75% compared with average new buil
- Economic feasibility of Passive House design @basics:affordability
- he idea behind the conception of energy efficient building design is to reduce energy consumption costs (and... nses e.g. for maintenance) during lifetime of the building significantly. But to get the savings, some extra... ment cost which are probably needed to get better building components to form the energy efficient building envelope: * more and better thermal insulation layer
- Heating load in Passive Houses @basics:building_physics_-_basics
- only about 10% of the energy used in conventional buildings. This has been verified time and again in field measurements: by building to the Passive House Standard, it is actually pos... y savings as high as 90% compared to conventional buildings [AkkP-28]. Yet a particular building’s exact heating demand, guaranteed to be low in any case, is really s
- The Passive House in summer
- important issue ===== The question of low-energy buildings overheating in summer "due to their high level o... hod_for_determining_thermal_comfort_in_summer_for_buildings_without_active_cooling|passive cooling sheet]]. ... uch as that in Central Europe – where residential buildings typically did not require active cooling so far.... ures and low humidities during night). **Thermal building simulations** are used to determine the summer ch
- Primary Energy Renewable PER @basics:energy_and_ecology
- of this subject area. ====Assessment methods for buildings===== Common methodologies for the energy efficiency assessment of buildings are: * Primary energy (PE) (non-renewable) o... pply, which will take place over several decades. Buildings constructed today will have longer life cycles t... powered by 100% renewable energy. Does this mean, buildings, regardless of their construction, become better
- Definition and effects of thermal bridges @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges
- \ A **thermal bridge** is a localised area of the building envelope where the heat flow is different (usuall... rst case this can lead to moisture penetration in building components and mould growth. * **Altered**, ... enter round box 60%> If the criteria for [[basics:building_physics_-_basics:what_defines_thermal_bridge_free... alculating the heat energy balance.\\ \\ [[basics:building_physics_-_basics:what_defines_thermal_bridge_free
- Life cycle cost analysis of energy interventions in 18 reference buildings @basics:affordability
- analysis of energy interventions in 18 reference buildings ====== Representative averages or generally ... phase of considering improvements in an existing building, the decision makers involved often have no idea ... figures can be provided when tied to a particular building type. For example, all apartments of a particular... ced studies on the energy needs of representative buildings for some time. These were calculations based on
- Planning criteria for Passive Houses in New Zealand @basics:passive_houses_in_different_climates
- assive House concept is a highly energy efficient building standard. Passive Houses consume very little ener... ire year. This is achieved with a vastly improved building envelope with reduced transmission losses and opt... erefore become dispensable. From experience, such buildings have a heating demand of about 15 kWh/(m²a) in c... ential (e.g. schools, sports halls, offices etc.) buildings have already been successfully built to the Pass
- The Passive House – historical review
- n:china_traditionell.jpg?300 }} <- ** Traditional building in Southern China. In this climate, cooling rath... .**\\ \\ In many climate regions of the world, if buildings are "sensibly" constructed, no heating is requir... ed and the first zero-energy house was built. The building was later used as a guest house for the universit... evelopments, systematic study of energy-efficient buildings was carried out in Germany by Dr. Horst Hörster
- Internal heat capacity
- e overall (effective) internal heat capacity of a building influences the temperature processes in rooms. T... dealing with thermally instationary processes in buildings. A comparison of measured results from buildings and the calculations carried out using DYNBIL has been pu... o represent realistic operating conditions in the building. At the same time, this implies that the simulat
- Primary energy – quantifying sustainability @basics:energy_and_ecology
- -renewable energy sources that is supplied to the building ((**There are many environmental effects of the u... od. \\ )) * for all energy uses arising in the building, * thus also for the household electricity in ... at is being compared?**\\ -> **For the “existing building“ category ** with the average consumption of buildings from the construction year categories before 1984.\\
- What defines thermal bridge free design? @basics:building_physics_-_basics
- hat defines thermal bridge free design? ====== A building envelope is considered to be free of thermal brid... ssion losses under consideration of all [[basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:thermal_bridge_d... nal surfaces and regular U-values of the standard building elements alone. Regularly occurring thermal bridges in standard building components must already be taken into account in
- Thermal bridge calculation @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges
- ====== Thermal bridge calculation ====== [[basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:thermal_bridge_d... entifying in more detail the heat losses from the building envelope. In highly efficient buildings such as Passive Houses, the influence of these losses has to be min... d. In ideal cases this is referred to as [[basics:building_physics_-_basics:what_defines_thermal_bridge_free
- Special features and characteristics of components in contact with the ground @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:ground_contact
- it is helpful if the effect of the ground on the building envelope is known, especially in terms of setting... h the ground ===== The thermal interactions of a building with its surroundings are very complex. This app... Heat flow through the individual components of a building is determined by the temperature difference betwe... cause the condition of the surfaces bordering the building (pathways, car parking, lawns etc.) is usually un
- Renewable primary energy demand in residential buildings with high energy intensity @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply
- Economy and financing of efficiency: new buildings, renovation and step by step retrofit @basics:affordability:investing_in_energy_efficiency
- Factors that influence the energy balance and affordability of non-residential EnerPHit projects @basics:affordability:investing_in_energy_efficiency:economic_feasibility_of_passive_house_retrofits
- Passive House – the next decade | Determining application-specific PER factors @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply:passive_house_the_next_decade
- Introduction - Passive House buildings in different climates @basics:passive_houses_in_different_climates
- Philips Experimental House Research 1974ff: Passive versus Active Measures in Europe & America @basics:the_passive_house_-_historical_review
- Efficiency of household appliances and their impact on the primary energy demand of residential buildings @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply
- Life Cycle energy balances, Embodied energy and the Passive House Standard @basics:energy_and_ecology
- Basic principle for calculating thermal bridges @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation
- Examples of thermal bridge calculations @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation
- Exterior wall on floor slab @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:examples
- Interior walls on floor slabs @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:examples
- Software for calculating thermal bridges @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation