Design and Build Passive House!
Passive House is a building standard for single-family homes, multi-family homes, commercial buildings, institutional buildings and mixed-used constructions in which energy waste is reduced in some cases to 0.
This can be achieved by better insulation, airtightness and illuminating thermal bridges.
A well-informed homeowner, a developer, a builder, or in many cases a knowledgeable designer/architect usually starts the conversation of building a Passive House.
Conventional buildings consume up to 40% of global energy use and contribute up to 30% of annual global Green House Gas emissions. In stark contrast, Passive House buildings consume up to 90% less heating and cooling energy!
There are many standards laid out to construct better buildings like LEED, Built Green, R2000 and Net Zero and some of the standards might be similar, however passive house restrictedly concentrates on the building’s performance.
Whereas LEED, for example, has a points system that involves the material source, construction practices and recycling methods and so on in their process.
Some of these practices are implemented in the revised building code which becomes mandatory for all builders.
Even though many people might think to build a high-performance building is expensive, but it is not. Starting from preconstruction, the cost to hire the designer and most of the consultants will be %15 over a regular house. The modelling, inspections, door blow tests, and certification costs are varied depends on the size of the …
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With a high-efficiency heat recovery system and low-cost heating system, you will enjoy your life in your high-performance home for many years to come. Keep in mind your home would have the minimum effect on the environment and in many cases, your home’s energy consumption will be self-sustained.