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Info: Sustainability is turning Britain’s
building industry upside down and offering new hope for
all our futures. Many house builders who want to be
energy efficient can often be left confused by colorful
promises and offers for various expensive renewable
technologies. What is often missing is a holistic
approach which takes all components into consideration
and shows what is actually needed to maximize the energy
efficiency.
With a modern build home
in passive house standard you can save a stunning 90% of
your heating cost and you will just need a small back up
heating which provides the additional boost in case it
gets very cold outside. The passive house concept uses
the principles of all-around super-insulation, avoiding
of all cold bridging, very good air tightness (10 times
better than the current standard) and maximizing solar
gains. Along with an optimized thermal envelope comes
mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, which
provides the home constantly with fresh, filtered air,
while hardly any heat is being lost.
The principle is quite simple. A conventional house
leaks lots of heat out of the walls, windows, doors, the
roof and the floor and needs heat pumped into it
constantly to keep up the temperature. That’s why we
made it our business to take on the whole package from
building the house with a very simple but fantastic flat
back system and with highly insulated windows with a
U-value’s down to 0.63 W/m2k. We also can install a
comfort ventilation and heating system which recovers
99% of your inside heat and does not disappear out of
the window. |
