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- Greenhouse effect and climate protection @basics:energy_and_ecology
- emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere can be tremendous and irreversible. Some of these eff... table - at least in part. The worst consequences can be avoided by taking responsible action, right no... ouse Institute has been working on concepts which can help to avert some of the worst consequences. Th... ibute to climate protection, so that our children can inherit from us an Earth where life is worth livi
- The Passive House in summer
- e|[PHPP 2007] ]]. Each planner of a Passive House can determine the influences, as dealt with below, fo... he hot period in the room "South Top Floor". One can see that all indoor temperatures in this time per... ouse, even **during the critical hot period**, it can be seen that with this method, an **excellent ind... Passive House suitable ventilation systems – and can be achieved by means of a bypass or a summer cass
- Passive House – the next decade | Determining application-specific PER factors @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply:passive_house_the_next_decade
- sufficient storage used for natural gas), significantly increases costs for the applications that need... ating, e.g.) because of high losses; this problem can also be solved (with improved efficiency).)), sin... e medium-term grid storage (pumped storage, etc.) can generally balance them out. The situation is different when an application's demand has significant seasonal fluctuations, such as when heating drop
- Efficiency of household appliances and their impact on the primary energy demand of residential buildings @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply
- , the energy demand from appliances (white goods) can be the largest share [Ottinger 2017]. It is then ... e efficiency of household appliances and how they can contribute to reducing the total primary energy u... fixed boundary conditions, while the norm demand can be changed. It must be noted that for certificati... ese devices. For the cases where the design teams can select efficient appliances, their contribution t
- Are Passive Houses cost-effective? @basics:affordability:investing_in_energy_efficiency
- others claim that a profit of over "200,000 Euro" can be made with a single-family Passive House. Anti... he roof will have to met some 0.12 W/(m²K), which can be achieved in a lot of different ways and what w... floor areas result. Since the value of such areas can be set to be high or low and this has very little... orresponding to n<sub>50</sub>=0.4 h<sup>-1</sup> can be achieved** with this approach. There are no ex
- Efficiency vs. Efficiency Factor
- hing to do with energy. For example, the benefit can be a mileage (unit "miles"). For example, the effort can be the fuel required (unit "gallons") and the eff... example, the efficiency factor of heating boilers cannot be increased to more than 100% (law of energy ... ng application (e.g. heated space/heating energy) can be improved almost as far as you want by applying
- Passive House and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Connecting an international building standard with global aims
- f all the SDGs set by the UN, only certain topics can be connected to the Passive House Standard. In o... well-being in residential buildings, the standard can also be implemented for non-residential projects.... e schools. Together, these health-based benefits can substantially reduce the rate of illnesses caused... data has been proved through statistically significant empirical studies and has been confirmed in a la
- What defines thermal bridge free design? @basics:building_physics_-_basics
- sign, the heat losses through the thermal bridges can be reduced so much that they do not have to be t... e punctiform contributions are generally insignificant, they will not be discussed in detail here. ($\v... hi_{j}} $$ </WRAP> “Thermal bridge free design” can be defined as follows: the contributions provided... l result in certain positive contributions, which can however be regarded as "negligibly small".\\ \\
- Heating load in Passive Houses @basics:building_physics_-_basics
- is the decisive factor: a certain amount of heat can be distributed with very little effort via the su... eat distribution to a minimum. These cost savings can then be reinvested in energy efficiency measures,... n system itself. However, the amount of heat that can be distributed via the fresh air system without a... t capacity of 0.33 Wh/(m<sup>3</sup>K). Fresh air can only be heated by a maximum of 30 K (to 51°C) in
- Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses @basics:energy_and_ecology
- e heating system. The existing ventilation system can be used for the distribution of heat which can be provided simultaneously by the hot water supply syst... y applying additional measures, the Passive House can be further developed into a “zero-heating house”:... zero-heating houses in the future. This progress can easily be associated with the Passive House stand
- Internal heat capacity
- ch have a dynamic effect, like the heat capacity, can only be observed with non-stationary processes an... icle about dynamic simulation]]. Here information can also be found about achieving reliable results us... jamb. The internal heat capacity of the building can store this solar load. The greater the effective... is evident that during the hot spell it is significantly cooler in the house than the peak value of the
- The Passive House – historical review
- se (from: Hörster et al))**\\ \\ Parallel to the Scandinavian and American developments, systematic study of energy-efficient buildings was carried out in G... " in the USA **\\ \\ A whole series of North American developments ("super-insulated houses") in the 70... as before. Robert Borsch Laaks contributed significantly to the details. See [[Basics:The Passive House
- Primary energy – quantifying sustainability @basics:energy_and_ecology
- purpose plays down the other risks and the significance of the resource situation.** Incidentally, this... han these from fossil or nuclear sources - but we can not neglect, that renewable energy also needs resources (e.g. land use). The impact can be kept really small, as long as the overall rene... em in a way, that the renewable energy generation can be kept within sustainable limits. This is, what
- Definition and effects of thermal bridges @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges
- **surface temperatures**; in the worst case this can lead to moisture penetration in building componen... at losses**.\\ \\ Both effects of thermal bridges can be avoided in Passive Houses: the interior surfac... high everywhere that critical levels of moisture cannot occur any longer – and the additional heat losses become insignificant. If the thermal bridge losses are smaller than
- Economy and financing of efficiency: new buildings, renovation and step by step retrofit @basics:affordability:investing_in_energy_efficiency
- y of buildings implies that short payback periods cannot be expected; they are not good indicators sinc... theory, economic activities aim at profits which can only be valuated in comparison with alternatives.... s (classification: risk; a subjective assessment can involve non-economic factors too). In a perfect c... ion period and the discount rate, residual values can easily be up to 30% or more of the original inves
- Life Cycle energy balances, Embodied energy and the Passive House Standard @basics:energy_and_ecology
- Renewable primary energy demand in residential buildings with high energy intensity @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply
- Special features and characteristics of components in contact with the ground @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:ground_contact
- Exterior wall on floor slab @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:examples
- Introduction - Passive House buildings in different climates @basics:passive_houses_in_different_climates
- Basic principle for calculating thermal bridges @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation
- Philips Experimental House Research 1974ff: Passive versus Active Measures in Europe & America @basics:the_passive_house_-_historical_review
- Software for calculating thermal bridges @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation
- Interior walls on floor slabs @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:examples
- Recommended procedure for calculating thermal bridges of components in contact with the ground @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:ground_contact