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While the principles of low energy building apply equally for new build and upgrades, the reality is that htting passive levels becomes much trickier when retrofitting. The Passive House Institute have taken this on board and created a retrofit standard that is ambitious but achievable.
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Passive reaches new heights at UCD student halls
The winner of the sustainability award at the 2011 Irish Architecture awards, Roebuck Castle student residence at UCD's Belfield campus is also the biggest certified passive house project built to date in Ireland and the UK. Tony Rigg of Kavanagh Tuite Architects explains how such a significant building achieved passive results.
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International selection: Passive house comes of age
Box-like, small windows, primary colour renders - there is a common misconception that building to the passive house standard involves sacrificing design freedom for the sake of thermal performance. Not so, argues passive house guru Tomás O'Leary of MosArt and the Irish Passive House Academy, as his selection of architecturally diverse buildings reveals.
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Train drivers building gets sustainability on track
Built on stilts, entirely encased in recycled newspaper insulation on all sides, and designed to be easily taken apart so that its constituent elements can be reused once it reaches its end of life, Portlaoise Locomotive Drivers Building could hardly be more green. But it is – it's a certified passive house. Iarnród Éireann senior architect David Hughes explains how such a sustainable exemplar came to be.
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EnerPHit
While the principles of low energy building apply equally for new build and upgrades, the reality is that htting passive levels becomes much trickier when retrofitting. The Passive House Institute have taken this on board and created a retrofit standard that is ambitious but achievable.
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Rise of the passive house
It could be a reflex response to the shockingly poor construction
standards that came to define Ireland's boom years, but the world's
leading low energy building standard is starting to thrive in Ireland.
As the several case studies following this article reveal, a groundswell
of Irish clients, designers, contractors and manufacturers are starting
to recognise the opportunities available in becoming early adopters of a
standard destined for exponential global growth.
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