MVHR and building physics knowledge for healthy, comfortable and energy efficient homes
What are “Thermal Bridges”? In the context of your home, a thermal bridge is a point in your building fabric (walls, floor or roof) where heat has an increased opportunity to escape to the outside, or the cold has an increased opportunity to creep into your house. A thermal bridge is a continuous link of a highly-conductive … Read more
See if any of this sounds true to you. You live in a typical English home. It’s made of brick, it has timber-frame and single-glazed or double-glazed windows and woolly yellow insulation stuffed into the rafters in the loft. It was built after the first or second world war in post-boom Britain. You spend £800 … Read more
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 actually building your future home to that standard. PassivHaus takes a “fabric first” approach … Read more
Passivhaus isn’t the only option for creating a low energy eco home in London. EnerPHit is a similar standard incorporating airtight, high-quality insulation with a mechanical ventilation system, but the certification is a little more lenient than PassivHaus. That makes the EnerPHit standard the perfect choice for home-owners in the UK looking at low energy … Read more
Passivhaus is a German low energy design specifications that you can consider incorporating into your home, office or self-build projects to lower your energy bills and increase your comfort and health. Passivhaus focuses on a building physics-based, “fabric first” approach that takes into account five key areas of the external fabric of your living space: … Read more