Passive House
If you are building a new home or renovating your old home, Permagreen, based in Cork, Ireland can help you to build it to the very highest standards from a heat and comfort point of view all year round. Permagreen can help you build your house to ‘Passive House’ standards.
A ‘passive house’ is an energy efficient building with all year-round comfort and good indoor environmental conditions, without the use of significant active space heating or cooling systems.
The space heat requirement is reduced by means of passive measures to the point at which there is no longer any need for a conventional space heating system; the air supply system essentially suffices to distribute the remaining space heat requirement.
A passive house provides a very high level of thermal comfort and whole house even temperature. The concept is based on minimising heat losses and maximizing heat gains. (Source Sustainable Energy Ireland)
Click here to download SEI Guidelines for the Design & Construction of passive house dwellings in Ireland.
Click here to download SEI Guidelines for upgrading existing dwellings in Ireland to the Passivhaus Standard
Suite of Passive House Videos
If you’d like to see some videos on Passive Houses, produced with Energy Quarter, click on some or all of the following options:
(a) General Introduction, (b) Envelope and Airtightness, (c) Windows and (d) Thermal Bridging
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