The highly respected Federal Agency Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt)* has certified INTELLO PLUS and DB+, per German testing standard DIN68800-2, for use in unvented assemblies with vapor closed exteriors. Such assemblies include unvented metal roofs, green roofs and gravel roof flat roofs, as well as vapor closed pitched roofs with asphalt shingles, EPDM, TPO etc. With this certification these materials...Read More
Organizers of the Passive House (PH) pavilion and related educational seminars at Buildex Vancouver 2016 say they are a sign of the increasing interest in Canada about building to the internationally recognized PH standard of energy efficiency. “After a successful launch in 2014, we expanded the pavilion to create what we have now,” said Malcolm...Read More
Dublin local authority makes passive house mandatory in historic vote All new buildings in south-east Dublin must be built to the passive house standard or demonstrably equivalent levels, in a move that may lead to the construction of upwards of 20,000 passive houses by 2022. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council adopted its county development plan for...Read More
LAROS had a wonderful weekend at the South Pacific Passive House Conference held at the University of Melbourne, Sidney Myer building with lots of interest and curious minds at our booth. We would like to thank all those who attended locally and internationally, the speakers with their brilliant presentations and Clare Parry from the Australian...Read More
WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT DUE TO LIMITED SPACE UNFORTUNATELY OUR WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL. Join us at 5 Bodalla Place for our upcoming Passivhaus/High-Performance Workshops! Come along and meet our guest speakers, learn about many different aspects relating to your Passivhaus project. Workshop Agenda – 15 minute introductions from: Nabil Adhami Adhami Pender Architecture...Read More
‘A wall is not a ventilation system, therefore airtightness is not the enemy.’ INFILTRATION IS NOT VENTILATIONHow are our houses being ventilated? The answer is “poorly”. There is an accidental reliance on infiltration through the building to provide some background air movement, but this is not fresh outdoor air as required by the building code...Read More
Fluid Dynamic Modelling & Balancing – For Energy Recovery Ventilation (ERV) Systems All ducted ventilation systems have to be designed such that the supplied airflow coming out of each vent in each room is sufficient for the requirements of the space.For example, a living area that may have 4 people in it for apoteketrecept.com extended periods...Read More
The Jerrabomberra Tennis Facility is a showcase of Passive House (German: Passivhaus) and Low-e technologies encapsulated within a factory pre-fabricated high-performance building. This video shows the erection of the building envelope in poor weather conditions near Canberra. This high-performance energy-efficient and tabs4australia.com/legal-lovegra-online-australia/ sustainable building includes: Fully insulated concrete slab with extruded polystyrene (XPS) by Foamex Thermally-broken...Read More
Find air leakages as a result of air pressure measurement testing Measuring an existing building’s air-tightness or checking a new build’s air-tightness after installation of building wraps are done by generating a gentle vacuum in the house through the Blower Door fan or 50 Pascal (similar to a wind loading of a moderate breeze on the building)....Read More
Once your building is insulated and air-tight to Passivhaus standard, you will barely loose heat. While true in general, solar heat gain control of windows in summer is paramount. To keep the unwanted sun out, fixed or passive shading as part of the building design and/or orientation such as very deep eaves and vertical shades,...Read More
