I’ve spent the last week of this really nice British summer weather stuck in a windowless room at STROMA’s head office learning about ATTMA’s advanced techniques for testing the airtightness of large commercial buildings such as offices, supermarkets, schools and… Continue Reading
Are eco-friendly passive houses for rich people? Eco warriors? Self-builders? Housing associations? Or are they only the preserve of our more logical, engineering-minded continental cousins in Germany? Passive Houses are for everyone. To build a Passive House, ie, one that runs at… Continue Reading
Modern homes are shifting towards increasing levels of airtightness in order to secure heat-saving benefits. With increasing levels of airtightness comes a need for a ventilation strategy. For PassivHaus, this means an MVHR system. Heat from the home is lost… Continue Reading
Not many UK builders have embraced PassivHaus principles yet. Below are a few ways that builders in the UK can ruin low energy homes, either by ignoring or failing to understand the new wave of low energy design and build techniques… Continue Reading
Building physics is a relatively new science that’s only recently started to gain ground in the UK construction industry. A lot of builders nod agreeably when you mention “PassivHaus”, but not many know what it means when it comes to… Continue Reading