Better housing means fewer A&E admissions, study finds
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Dampness reduction via better ventilation seen to be key
Ancon was honoured at a royal reception on 28 June to celebrate its success in the 2018 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, the company’s third such award.
Historic London house gets near passive transformation
Written by Kate de Selincourt
The default answer when you want to do pretty much anything to a listed building is ‘no’. The default assumption if you want to achieve the Enerphit standard for retrofit is ‘tackle everything’. So how on earth do you retrofit a listed building to within a whisker of the Enerphit standard — with the blessing of the conservation officer?
Bow Tie become silver partners with Loxone Smart Home
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Bow Tie & Beattie collaborate on 3-storey London passive house
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Bow Tie construction seeks builders & site supervisors
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Leading passive and low energy building contractor Bow Tie Construction is looking to recruit site supervisors and builders in the Dorset and Hampshire areas.
Paint-on airtightness layer can revolutionise retrofit - Ecomerchant
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Insulation material choice key for thermal comfort — Ecomerchant
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Victorian stone building becomes Enerphit youth hostel
Written by Kate de Selincourt
Old buildings are tricky to upgrade – especially if external insulation’s not allowed. Utilising a combination of cutting edge building physics and a carefully selected palette of insulation materials, one Victorian stone building has been upgraded to the Passive House Institute’s Enerphit standard, slashing heating demand by 90%
The slow, heavy gears of deep retrofit start to turn
Written by Lenny Antonelli
At SEAI's 2018 deep retrofit conference, there are signs that action to overhaul Ireland's outdated, inefficient building stock is gradually moving forward
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Granite-hewn Victorian home upgraded to PHI low energy standard
Written by Kate de Selincourt
Built in 1850, this home in Dartmoor national park would have relied on local timber supplies for heating until the advent of widely-available central heating. One passive house-flavoured retrofit later, it’s back to its wood-burning roots – only this time with much less wood use, and much higher comfort.
Dublin to host conference on rapid-build nZEB construction
Written by Lenny Antonelli
A new one-day conference set to be held in Dublin next month will look at the twin challenges of solving Ireland's housing crisis with rapid-build construction, while at the same time meeting new standards for nearly zero energy buildings (nZEBs).
Essex village becomes eco-pioneer with latest passive house scheme
Written by David W Smith
Hastoe Housing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting-edge energy efficiency.
In 2014, one couple decided to give up life in a van and convert an old newsagents in Shrewsbury into a very small low energy home, using the principles of the passive house standard as their guide. So how did it work out, and what is life really like in such a small home?