Passivhaus proposed to keep UK homes cooler as summers heat up

saved you a click: by spending £80,000 converting it into a passivhaus, also the homeowner is an architect

🙌 Could these alternative homes be the future in a hotter Britain? Great BBC article explaining how Passivhaus works to keep homes cool in the summer as well as warm in winter. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5l3z7p922o

80K passive retrofit is more than most can afford, especially to still get 27C overnight. Here, with u/der £200, old double not triple glaze, blackout blinds + some solar film, never passed 25c night, mostly managed to get to 20c, with 10c or more cooler inside than out www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Found this interesting - one of IWM's collections stores runs on the Passivhaus standard. Something that should be considered for future construction, I think. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

£80,000, to save £750 a year on bills. Somebody help me, I’m dying here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In Scotland, consultations for new building regulations "to deliver an equivalent to the Passivhaus standard" are ongoing, and the new guidelines could be published later next year. #retrofit #ClimateCrisis #housing #planning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We’re designing a passivhaus in highland Scotland. We’re including a wood burning stove. “Why would you want that?” said the architect. “AMOC shutdown insurance” I said. And they had zero idea: none whatsoever.

feels like her passivhaus could have stood to be a bit more aktiv

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... They don't have AC, they have a "heat exchange unit" 😂😂😂

Obsessed with this bbc article I just read about passivhaus architecture (basically a way of insulating your home to make it less reactive to weather outside, which is genuinely interesting and made me jealous of wall insulation for the first time ever)

There are probably doubts that Passivhaus will be cope with future change in climate in the UK. Colder or hotter? The BBC mentions air to air heat pumps being installed by Barrett Redrow, but fails to mention that most residential air con installed is the same tech. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How this 1960s ex-council house is managing to stay cool without air con The Passivhaus standard is growing in popularity as UK homeowners adapt to hotter summer temperatures.

'According to the Passivhaus Trust, the additional construction cost associated with building to the standard range from 2% extra for flats up to 5% for a semi-detached house.' BBC News - Could these alternative homes be the future in a hotter Britain? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don’t think £80,000 case studies are the best way to present retrofitting in the news. This Passivhaus would also need air conditioning, as it doesn’t cope with very hot nights. Highlights windows as a major source of heating. Here, they hung sheets over the windows www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...