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- The Passive House in summer
- ====== The Passive House in summer ====== ===== Summer climate in the Passive House – an important issue ===== The question of low-e... y we document research on a residential Passive Houses in climates, where a passive temperature control... with such passive summer performance of Passive Houses has clearly shown that these houses have a pleas
- The Passive House – historical review
- ====== The Passive House – historical review ====== When was the first Passive House built? Who invented the Passive House? Is the "Passive House" only a new name for "superinsulated homes"? Here are some comments which, al
- Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses @basics:energy_and_ecology
- ====== Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses ====== ===== Foreword ===== The very first zero-energy houses which were built in the 1970s required complicat... tems. Today however, experience with low-energy houses has shown a more practical and easier approach: cost-efficient highly insulated houses without any heating systems, called Passive Hous
- Passive House – the next decade @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply
- ====== Passive House – the next decade ====== //This article is an based on the paper “Passive House - the next decade” presented at the 18th International Passive House Conference 2014 in Aachen. The original article i... gy factors. For that reason alone, the frequently used nonrenewable primary energy demand will no longe
- What is a Passive House?
- ====== What is a Passive House? ====== Want to see a video first? Click the video-frame: **{{ youtube>xLxwa-rwFP8?300| What is a passive house? Video by Dr. Wolfgang Feist }}** {{ :picopen:hea... and **ecological** at the same time.\\ Passive House is not a **brand name**, but a **construction con... stood the test of practice.\\ \\ Yet, a Passive House is more than just a low-energy building.\\ \\ *
- Passive House and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Connecting an international building standard with global aims
- ======Passive House and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Connecting an international building ... == Author: Giorgia Tzar, International Passive House Association =====1. Introduction===== In 2015... of fields and topics. The international Passive House Standard plays a direct role in achieving many of... e outlines the main topical areas where Passive House aligns and contributes to the SDGs. =====2. The
- Are Passive Houses cost-effective? @basics:affordability:investing_in_energy_efficiency
- ====== Are Passive Houses cost-effective? ====== Varying opinions about the Passive House abound, not only on the internet. It is still claimed by some that Passive Houses are not affordable. And others claim that a prof... Euro" can be made with a single-family Passive House. Anticipating the results of a serious analysis,
- Planning criteria for Passive Houses in New Zealand @basics:passive_houses_in_different_climates
- ====== Planning criteria for Passive Houses in New Zealand ====== //**Commissioned by the School of A... 2011//'' ===== Introduction ===== The Passive House concept is a highly energy efficient building standard. Passive Houses consume very little energy and yet provide a ver... pe with reduced transmission losses and optimised use of solar gains, as well as with minimised ventila
- Passive House – the next decade | Determining application-specific PER factors @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply:passive_house_the_next_decade
- ====== Passive House – the next decade | Determining application-specific PER factors ====== //This article is a chapter of the paper “Passive House - the next decade” by Wolfgang Feist. Click here to the [[basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply:passive_house_the_next_decade|beginning of the article on Passi
- Life Cycle energy balances, Embodied energy and the Passive House Standard @basics:energy_and_ecology
- nergy balances, Embodied energy and the Passive House Standard ====== ===== Cumulated primary energy d... and natural gas consumption during the period of use in the low-energy house is about the same with 45% for each. Improvement is possible mainly through the efficient use of electricity. * The heating consumption of t
- Primary energy – quantifying sustainability @basics:energy_and_ecology
- g ((**There are many environmental effects of the use of not renewable energy**: consumption of limited... ful substances (e.g. CO<sub>2</sub>, other greenhouse gases), contamination of the water and soil (e.g.... , as long as attention is focussed on sustainable use (no deforestation for the purpose of obtaining fu... ge to the environment through conventional energy use. Using solely CO<sub>2</sub> as a parameter for t
- Primary Energy Renewable PER @basics:energy_and_ecology
- ry energy (PE) (non-renewable) or * the greenhouse gas impact, indicated by CO<sub>2</sub>-equivalen... ently our main concern is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the transition to a non-fossil-... -fossil based society and hence they will also be used in the post-transition era. During the transiti... become better and better and their (final) energy use doesn’t matter? The above-mentioned assessment
- Heating load in Passive Houses @basics:building_physics_-_basics
- ====== Heating load in Passive Houses ====== Due to their extremely high level of energy efficiency, the heating demand in Passive Houses (typically no higher than 15 kWh/(m²a)) is negligible – only about 10% of the energy used in conventional buildings. This has been verifie... field measurements: by building to the Passive House Standard, it is actually possible to achieve ener
- Efficiency of household appliances and their impact on the primary energy demand of residential buildings @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply
- ====== Efficiency of household appliances and their impact on the primary energy demand of residential buildings ====== Author: Elena Reyes, Passive House Institute Once a project is designed as a Passive House, the energy demand from heating and cooling is dr... ntribution of domestic hot water generation and household appliances becomes more relevant for the tota
- Life cycle cost analysis of energy interventions in 18 reference buildings @basics:affordability
- ents that lead to low energy buildings, passive houses or nearly zero energy buildings. The financial e... e buildings. To compute the energy performance he used PHPP software version 8.6. Account was taken of ... tic and Economic analyses of the 18 most common houses in The Netherlands. We started from the situatio... this publication. Over the years, many of these houses have already been renovated or modernised. All o
- Philips Experimental House Research 1974ff: Passive versus Active Measures in Europe & America @basics:the_passive_house_-_historical_review
- Introduction - Passive House buildings in different climates @basics:passive_houses_in_different_climates
- Economy and financing of efficiency: new buildings, renovation and step by step retrofit @basics:affordability:investing_in_energy_efficiency
- Renewable primary energy demand in residential buildings with high energy intensity @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply
- Passive House – the next decade | Methodology @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply:passive_house_the_next_decade
- Special features and characteristics of components in contact with the ground @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:ground_contact
- Basic principle for calculating thermal bridges @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation
- 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
- Exterior wall on floor slab @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
- Software for calculating thermal bridges @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation