(bottom to top) With triple glazed windows from 21 Degrees sitting in an insulated, airtight envelope, frost forms on the outside of the window; one of the Tresidder children attempts to peer over an ...

The new edition of Passive House Plus is available now. Passive House Plus is part of the Smarter Finance for EU group, who are aiming to unlock €100 billion worth of verified green homes across ...

A disastrous failed external insulation contract run under a government energy saving scheme has affected up to 390 homes in Preston with water penetration, mould and damp. This article was originally ...

£21.66 per month for space heating costs (estimate) £23.50 per month for hot water (estimate) What kind of house would one of Europe’s leading heating engineers build? If you are Max Fordham then you ...

Kilsaran has announced the signing of a new partnership agreement with CarbonCure Technologies to bring a lower carbon cement to its clients. The project represents a €1m investment by Kilsaran and ...

Once poorly understood by the mainstream building industry, airtightness is now increasingly seen as one of the most crucial objectives on any building project. Not only is it vital for energy ...

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When the Ballymun Boiler House opened in the 1960s, it was by far the largest mass heating system in the country. It not only provided district heating to nearly 2,800 families, it also pumped fresh ...

In September Cairn Homes lit the fuse on a passive house explosion, publishing a position paper on passive house and announcing the construction of nearly 1,800 apartments to the standard. But what’s ...

As the climates gets warmer, overheating in buildings is likely to get worse — particularly given the modern architectural preference for huge expanses of unshaded glass. But what really causes ...

Having designed a number of passive house buildings for his employer Architype while enduring life in a chilly old cottage that cost £1,500 each winter to heat, architect Juraj Mikurcik and his wife ...