Passive House - energy efficiency | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org) | |
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:03:37 -0700 (PDT) |
In her message "Lancaster update, and ..." On 19 Aug 2011 Fiona Frank wrote: > Lancaster Cohousing is building 34 passivhaus houses and a common house at > Forge Bank on the banks of the Lune River 3 miles outside of the small north > western UK city of Lancaster "passivhaus houses" caught my attention since in recent months I have become interested in this very high standard or energy efficiency. In the US the phrase "passive house" is used widely instead but this term is easily confused with the term passive solar building design. The two terms are different. To further confuse things passive house designs often incorporate passive solar. The passive house standard was mentioned briefly on cohousing-L previously http://lists.cohousing.org/pipermail/cohousing-l/msg30088.html but warrants more coverage. IMHO any new construction should take the standard into consideration. Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house The term passive house (Passivhaus in German) refers to the rigorous, voluntary, Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling. Key to achiving the standard is super insulation and a very carefully and tightly constructed thermal envelope. This and other features result in a conventional central heating system is not being necessary. A typical statement is that a passive house can be heated with the equivalent of a hair dryer. Passive houses are up to 14% more expensive upfront than conventional buildings but this is quickly recouped from energy use savings. Retrofitting a house to meet passive house standardds is possible but much more difficult than with new construction. We had a passive house architect evaluate our house and concluded with him that it is not reasonable to retrofit our house to the standard. Fred -- Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Email: fholson at cohousing.org 612-588-9532 My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org My org: Communications for Justice -- Free, superior listserv's w/o ads
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Passive House - energy efficiency Fred H Olson, August 23 2011
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Re: Passive House - energy efficiency Norman Gauss, August 23 2011
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Re: Passive House - energy efficiency Elizabeth Magill, August 23 2011
- Re: Passive House - energy efficiency Norman Gauss, August 23 2011
- Re: Passive House - energy efficiency James Kacki, August 23 2011
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Re: Passive House - energy efficiency Elizabeth Magill, August 23 2011
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Re: Passive House - energy efficiency Norman Gauss, August 23 2011
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