MVHR and building physics knowledge for healthy, comfortable and energy efficient homes
Heat, Space and Light Ltd has completed the design, supply and commissioning of a Passivhaus-specification MVHR ventilation system for a luxury new build in the northwest of England. The home was also tested by our building airtightness team and achieved an incredibly airtight result of 0.76 m3hr/m2 @50Pa. It’s only slightly shy of a fully-certified … Read more
Heat, Space and Light Ltd has completed the design, supply and commissioning of an MVHR system in a four-storey London terraced home. The property has undergone a deep retrofit to EnerPHit criteria, which is the retrofit standard for Passivhaus. Passivhaus building standards are a stringent methodology using high levels of insulation, airtightness and ventilation with … Read more
The Heat, Space and Light Ltd team has completed the design, supply and commissioning of an MVHR system into a whole house deep energy retrofit project in Cambridge. The detached mid-20th Century home has been externally insulated with EPS insulation to make it much more energy efficient at retaining heat. The insulation applied externally also … Read more
The top-ten warmest years in the UK have all occurred since 2002 according to the Royal Meteorological Society. And as homes are increasingly built to high levels of thermal efficiency for our cold winters, the risk of new build homes overheating in summer is massive – if not designed with overheating mitigation in mind. We … Read more
Forensic Airtightness Testing and Strategy by Heat, Space and Light Ltd has helped a new build home in Dorset achieve a drop in its final airtightness rate that will result in £100s of heating savings every year, turning it from a leaky home to an airtight home. Forensic air testing improves Air Permeability from 6.4 … Read more