|
Wain Morehead Architects Ltd. enjoyed an impressive turn
out when clients John & Sally O'Leary generously opened
their doors to enable visitors experience the air quality
and general comfort levels in a Passive House first hand during
the International Passive House Open Days held recently.
The open day was attended by 100 visitors including over
30 architects with TD Simon Coveney on hand to open the project
PH is an onerous energy and comfort standard widely becoming
accepted as the energy standard to attain worldwide. Indeed,
many regions have actually adopted the standard for energy
compliance as it is site and climate specific and over 20
years has been found to be within 10% of predictions.
This is an interesting example of why passive solar architecture
can achieve Certification as a Passive House in Ireland. The
original design was already tendered as a low energy passive
solar project when it was decided to go the certified Passive
route during the pilot Certified European Passive House (CEPH)
run for the first time in English at Strathclyde University
in November 2009.
The project was found to already meet the criteria - aided
by site specific climate data it was further tuned with minor
tweaks to glass specifications etc.
The design and construction was all local with the majority
of the construction team and suppliers from within 10 minutes
of the site.
For further information - Click
Here
|
