The course takes place on 25 and 26 March at the Gateway Business Centre in Carlow, and draws on nearly two decades of testing experience across a wide range of building types. It follows the ...

The new edition of Passive House Plus is available now. Passive House Plus is part of the Smarter Finance for EU group, who are aiming to unlock €100 billion worth of verified green homes across ...

A disastrous failed external insulation contract run under a government energy saving scheme has affected up to 390 homes in Preston with water penetration, mould and damp. This article was originally ...

* Total delivered energy use, based on the first five months of monitored usage. The carbon intensity of electricity in Ireland has reduced by 50 per cent over the last 15 years and is on track to ...

Once poorly understood by the mainstream building industry, airtightness is now increasingly seen as one of the most crucial objectives on any building project. Not only is it vital for energy ...

Built with a timber frame insulated with straw-bale, and featuring an extensive suite of ecological and recycled materials, this stunning North Yorkshire home also produces more energy than it ...

This is a normal housing development – built using block cavity wall on strip foundations – meeting the minimum building regulations brief from the local authority, Simon Keogh, senior project ...

Having designed a number of passive house buildings for his employer Architype while enduring life in a chilly old cottage that cost £1,500 each winter to heat, architect Juraj Mikurcik and his wife ...

The penny has yet to drop for many clients and designers about the risks posed by overheating in an Irish context. With the climate hotting up and building design typically uninformed by feedback on ...

In September Cairn Homes lit the fuse on a passive house explosion, publishing a position paper on passive house and announcing the construction of nearly 1,800 apartments to the standard. But what’s ...

*Space heating use only, modelled based on measured energy use. See ‘In detail’ panel for more information. A year after their house in South County Dublin had been retrofitted to the Enerphit ...

Heating cost: £20 per month space heating cost, between two households. See 'In detail' panel for more information. The many projects I have covered in my 15 years writing for Passive House Plus share ...