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‘Under the Sun’, a Victorian terrace house in Birmingham is an outstanding example of bringing a fairly typical old building up to PassivhausSee more on the PassivhausSee more on the Passivhaus standard. The PassivHaus Institute has pioneered a standard for low energy buildings. It includes very low energy usage and ways of achieving this. The word is derived from the idea of buildings which are fundamentally low energy and passive solar heated rather than using extra gadgets to heat them. See Passivhaus for the UK branch of the organisation. standard. The PassivHaus Institute has pioneered a standard for low energy buildings. It includes very low energy usage and ways of achieving this. The word is derived [...] May 21st, 2011 | Tags: air quality, building, building contract, building materials, building regulations, building supplies, calculations, certification, Code for Sustainable Homes, Code for Sustainable Homes level 5, Code for Sustainable Homes level 6, construction, consultant, costings, CSH, CSH level 6, damp proofing, decision making, decorating, decoration, demolishing, demolition, demolitions, DPCs, DPM, DPMs, draft excluder, drafts, drawings, dry lining, embodied energy, Energy performance certificate, EPC, estimating, extend, extension, exterior, external insulation, external wall insulation, feed in tariff, floor boards, floor finishes, floors, fuel, fuels, green design, grey water, ground floor, ground source heat pump, ground source heat pumps, GSHP, hard surfaces, hardstanding, health and safety, heat recovery, heat store, heat stores, heating, hot water, internal walls, joinery, lifelong homes, lifetime homes, lighting, lighting design, lime render, maintenance, managing self build, materials, mineral fibre, mortgage, mortgages, natural finishes, natural paints, passive gain, passive solar, Passivhaus standard, phenolic foam, planning, planning approval, planning permission, polystyrene, polyurethane, preservatives, PV, radiators, rain water, regulations, repair, retrofit, reuse, reused, reverse metering, rock wool, SAP, secondary glazing, solar, sub contractor, temporary services, timber | Category: | Leave a comment Very often outbuildings happen as an afterthought and people go off and buy various kinds of prefabricated sheds, garages or summer houses. Usually these buildings are the worst possible in terms of green design because they tend to have travelled a long way and be made of materials which are high in embodied energythe [...] November 8th, 2010 | Tags: building, garage, garden, hardstanding, landscaping, shed, store | Category: | Leave a comment As soon as you have got planning permissionthe legal basis for being allowed to do some form of development such as building a house. (not to be confused with Building RegulationsThese are the legal regulations which govern how a house is constructed. (not to be confused with Planning Permissionthe legal basis for being allowed to do some form of development such as building a house. (not to be confused with Building RegulationsThese are the legal regulations which govern how a house is constructed. (not to be confused with Planning Permission which is about whether you are allowed to build the house at all or what it might look like) see Building Regulations) which is all about whether the building is properly constructed). see more on Planning Permission which is about whether you [...] November 8th, 2010 | Tags: building, building regulations, building site, construction, demolishing, demolitions, fence, fences, garden, habitat, hard surfaces, hardcore, hardstanding, health and safety, insurance, levelling, managing self build, office, security, services, setting out, soil, store, surveying, temporary services, water supply | Category: | Leave a comment |
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