This is Villa Lagenkamp, the first certified passive house ever built in Denmark, finished in 2008.
Video: X-Floc install insulation blowing machine
Written by Lenny Antonelli
Check out this video from X-Floc UK on the installation of one of their insulation blowing machines at the factory of timber-frame company Oakwrights.
Irish passive house pharmacy breaks ground
Written by Lenny Antonelli
Construction has begun on what is expected to be Ireland's first certified passive house pharmacy. The project in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, was designed by Paul McNally Architecture.
Passive House Institute certifies new components for cold climates
Written by Lenny Antonelli
The Passive House Institute has certified two new windows and a new skylight as suitable for use in passive house buildings in cold climates.
Passive house pioneer Wolfgang Feist to speak in Dublin
Written by Lenny Antonelli
Wolfgang Feist, one of the creators of the passive house concept and a founder and director of the Passive House Institute, will speak in Dublin on 25 October at the 2013 See The Light conference.
PHI publishes research on passive house in tropical climates
Written by Lenny Antonelli
The Passive House Institute has published a new study that looks at designing passive buildings for tropical climates. The study concludes that the key design criteria for such buildings include,"a very airtight building envelope, 10 to 15 cm of insulation, solar control glazing, fixed external shades for the windows and ventilation with both heat and energy recovery".
New version of Passive House Planning Package released
Written by Lenny Antonelli
The new version of the passive house planning software is now available.
The coming decades are expected to bring higher average temperatures, more extreme weather events – and possibly more cold snaps. But how are passive house buildings geared to adapt to a changing climate?
Progress on retrofitting Europe's building stock is sluggish, but there is a way out of the mire.
Islington centre gets award-winning passive upgrade
Written by Lenny Antonelli
A community centre in a deprived area of north London has become one of the few buildings in the UK & Ireland to get passive house certification with a renovation.
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One of the UK’s first nondomestic buildings to gain passive house certification, the Simmonds Mills designed Green Base centre is an embodiment of the environmental ethos it seeks to promote.
With a target as exacting as the passive house standard, circumstances can conspire against meeting every criteria. Architect Sam Mays describes a Co Wicklow home that hit every passive target except one when the builder went bust.
Scottish Borders home mixes ecology & efficiency
Written by Lenny Antonelli
A stunning location, thoughtful design and a certified passive house: a new home in the wooded hills of the Scottish Borders manages to have its cake and eat it too.