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- Greenhouse effect and climate protection @basics:energy_and_ecology
- ntly from [[http://www.ipcc.ch/|IPCC (Website)]], which has scientists from almost all countries of the w... sive House Institute has been working on concepts which can help to avert some of the worst consequences.... us an Earth where life is worth living. Measures, which do not hurt - but open an opportunity for all peo... global CO<sub>2</sub> content of the atmosphere which constantly keeps increasing, significantly and me
- The Passive House in summer
- armstadt-Kranichstein are **solid constructions** which are **oriented exactly towards the south** (//**p... itions for a cool interior climate in the summer (which will work also in hotter climates, night ventilat... d out in the "Passive House Summer Climate Study" which was completed in 1998 ([[basics:Summer#Literature... e Houses**. A metrological concomitant study, in which the focal point was on the summer situation, was
- The Passive House – historical review
- r "superinsulated homes"? Here are some comments which, although naturally incomplete, try to explain th... Centuries in Europe there was a shortage of wood which was due to extensive deforestation. The solution ... l thickness of about 15 inches. ...The skylight which was most exposed to the cold was protected by thr... lent, especially since we rigged up the air sail, which sends a whole winter‘s cold in through the ventil
- Primary Energy Renewable PER @basics:energy_and_ecology
- e transition to a non-fossil-based energy supply, which will take place over several decades. Buildings c... . Renewable energy needs infrastructure and space which will become a decisive limiting factor. We want a... R system, an assessment method has been developed which allows the optimisation of buildings with respect... on assets. ====Zero, Net zero, Nearly Zero, Plus: Which is the best solution?==== Zero, Net Zero, Nearly
- Are Passive Houses cost-effective? @basics:affordability:investing_in_energy_efficiency
- 015: The roof will have to met some 0.12 W/(m²K), which can be achieved in a lot of different ways and wh... 7 as the first low-energy buil-\\ ding in Germany which was very innovative at the time. Today\\ its ther... , the roof structures contain airtight membranes, which are plastered up in the knee wall area. Based on ... tightness prevents building damage, the repair of which is much more expensive than the one-off investmen
- Economy and financing of efficiency: new buildings, renovation and step by step retrofit @basics:affordability:investing_in_energy_efficiency
- c energy savings result much lower than they are, which turns out to be a strong barrier for the implemen... es. In theory, economic activities aim at profits which can only be valuated in comparison with alternati... the investment in other assets or a bank deposit which yields interests. Another option would be to avoi... real prices and interest rates, while inflation - which does not affect the economic result - is taken ou
- Internal heat capacity
- he present article. The influences of parameters which have a dynamic effect, like the heat capacity, ca... on-stationary processes and only using procedures which accurately calculate instationary processes based... m)**//|\\ \\ The so-called operative temperature, which is shown in red in the illustration, is decisive ... from it. More energy will be required for this, which will be more than the amount saved by the increas
- Economic feasibility of Passive House design @basics:affordability
- can be used to finance the extra investment cost which are probably needed to get better building compon... lished with a financial calculation tool (PHeco), which performs the recalculation of annual expenses to ... ed. The area used is the same treated floor area, which is used in PHPP to do energy balance calculations... ts are listed. The only exception are the shading which is the same for PH and LEB, but is needed to keep
- Primary energy – quantifying sustainability @basics:energy_and_ecology
- should be expected. Today we do not know exactly which primary energy carriers (oil, gas, coal or uraniu... avings from a typical old building to the "EnEV", which was divided into three separate steps (1984, 1995... savings from the EnEV house to the Passive House, which is particularly interesting because not only is e... sting buildings it is **mainly the heating energy which affects the environment** (64% of the primary ene
- Zero-energy and zero heating energy houses @basics:energy_and_ecology
- Foreword ===== The very first zero-energy houses which were built in the 1970s required complicated and ... to be a more cost-effective and simpler standard which could be implemented quickly. Low-energy houses h... n system can be used for the distribution of heat which can be provided simultaneously by the hot water s... ated sliding shutters were additionally built in, which could be closed at night in the winter and thus r
- Adaptive versus Heat Balance Comfort Models @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_comfort
- eement that the main external physical parameters which determine thermal comfort are air temperature, ra... mfort: The first are the **heat balance models**, which basically assume that thermal comfort is achieved... y resulted in the international standard ISO 7730 which allows for the calculation of the predicted mean ... es, mostly in air-conditioned office buildings in which the predicted comfort temperatures have actually
- Passive House and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Connecting an international building standard with global aims
- he targets and indicators of the individual SDGs, which were then summarized into eight umbrella categori... innovative buildings: Creating durable buildings, which through energy efficiency, are resilient to fluct... erarching SDG, only SDGs with at least one target which Passive House contributes towards are considered ... ouse buildings also aid in tackling fuel poverty, which the European fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency (
- Exterior wall on floor slab @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:examples
- aring the calculation model, it should be checked which building component layers are relevant for the calculations and which can be disregarded. Thus for example, blinding layers can be disregarded which do not have any significant insulating effect on ... oorer rated values apply for perimeter insulation which is outside of the moisture barrier or sealing lay
- The Passive House - definition
- s:\\ \\ > **//"A Passive House is a building, for which thermal comfort (ISO 7730) can be achieved solely... st-heating or post-cooling of the fresh air mass, which is required to achieve sufficient indoor air qual... "//**\\ \\ This is a purely functional definition which doesn't contain any numerical values and is valid... as much as a heating system – a double investment which hardly pays off. The way to go therefore involve
- Heating load in Passive Houses @basics:building_physics_-_basics
- easured in kilowatt hours (kWh)), the numbers for which are often easier to come by. ** The Passive Hou... it is only supposed to serve as a rough benchmark which may vary with different climatic conditions: in S... " only applies if there are no occupants present, which in turn leads to very minimal requirements. If oc... ee of uncertainty even in conventional buildings, which results from the fact that the internal heat flow
- Life Cycle energy balances, Embodied energy and the Passive House Standard @basics:energy_and_ecology
- Philips Experimental House Research 1974ff: Passive versus Active Measures in Europe & America @basics:the_passive_house_-_historical_review
- Passive House – the next decade | Determining application-specific PER factors @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
- 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
- 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
- Interior walls on floor slabs @basics:building_physics_-_basics:thermal_bridges:tbcalculation:examples
- Renewable primary energy demand in residential buildings with high energy intensity @basics:passive_house_-_assuring_a_sustainable_energy_supply