Comments on: PASSIVHAUS: Passive homes offer enormous energy savings through design standards and efficiency http://conservationreport.com/2008/12/28/passivhaus-passive-homes-offer-enormous-energy-savings-through-design-standards-and-efficiency/ Tracking news regarding conservation, the environment, energy, politics, and technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:31:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dieter Herz http://conservationreport.com/2008/12/28/passivhaus-passive-homes-offer-enormous-energy-savings-through-design-standards-and-efficiency/#comment-7173 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:58:10 +0000 http://conservationreport.com/?p=4924#comment-7173 the reason i was interested in the page was, that the red house on the right side of the picture, is one the first cerified passive houses we planned. it`s the town of aalen/germany and all buildings in the area had to be certified passive houses.
this was basic of the contract to buy the grounds. if you would have a look to our english homepage in work, http://www.herz-lang.de/ireland, you could see under references/passive house, nr. 15-20 all our houses of this area and under 17/18, specailly the red house of the right side.

]]> By: Dieter Herz http://conservationreport.com/2008/12/28/passivhaus-passive-homes-offer-enormous-energy-savings-through-design-standards-and-efficiency/#comment-7147 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:15:46 +0000 http://conservationreport.com/?p=4924#comment-7147 the passive house will be one of the building standards of the future. this kind of buildings will easily be able to get carbonneutral together with pv-solarpanels or shares of windmills or other invests in substainable energy. the energy we save, we don!t have to produce or waste !!
one sentence to the costs of passive houses.
a one or semi detached house in certified passivhouse will cost in germany almost 10%, in the main cases 15-20% more than a standard house.
if its a building with more than 8-10 dwellings, you rather can get it under 10%.
it depends on the quality of the passive house architecture,the place, the building is situated to the sun, the qualitiy of integral planning in the team, the quality of the products and the companies making it.
the item passive house is not saved !
everybody can give his house the name passive house. only a certified passive house shows, that the definitions of the passive house institute are kept.
more to this please see under http://www.passivehouseplus.eu/certification

]]> By: Chris Snyder http://conservationreport.com/2008/12/28/passivhaus-passive-homes-offer-enormous-energy-savings-through-design-standards-and-efficiency/#comment-2224 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:20:06 +0000 http://conservationreport.com/?p=4924#comment-2224 Great to see Passive Houses making it big in the Times, but what they left out was any mention of the Passive House Institute US, see http://www.passivehouse.us! This organization has the United States only certified Passive House Planner, Katrin Klingenberg, who trained at the German P.H.Institute, and is responsible for training all certified Passive House Consultants in the US to date, and for certifying all Passive Houses built in the US. I will be Michigan’s first Passive House Consultant as soon as I finish my first Passive House project this coming year, which will be able to be a zero energy home as soon as we finish moving our renewable energy systems to the new house. The Passive House Standard works for commercial as well as residential projects, and you can even retrofit existing buildings per its guidelines! The standard is based on maximizing energy savings while minimizing upfront costs by eliminating conventional heating systems like furnaces and boilers. Unlike LEED certification, you are getting a guaranteed level of energy efficiency with a Passive House, which keeps paying you back into the forseeable future. You don’t buy a new car without a fuel efficiency rating, why should you buy a building without one? Passive Houses are the only buildings that are coming with the equivalent of an mpg tag, backed up by the P.H. Institute’s quality control program that is more than a decade old now. Check it out at http://www.passivehouse.us!

]]> By: Mike http://conservationreport.com/2008/12/28/passivhaus-passive-homes-offer-enormous-energy-savings-through-design-standards-and-efficiency/#comment-2166 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:26:54 +0000 http://conservationreport.com/?p=4924#comment-2166 Hello!

Thanks so much for your great website and also for your article on Passive House. Great work!

]]> By: 29 December 2008 Part II « blueollie http://conservationreport.com/2008/12/28/passivhaus-passive-homes-offer-enormous-energy-savings-through-design-standards-and-efficiency/#comment-2127 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:09:01 +0000 http://conservationreport.com/?p=4924#comment-2127 [...] efficient houses in Germany: constructed so as to minimize seepage. This seems nice; I’d love one of these houses. Our old house is so [...]

]]> By: Alert For Green Energy December 28, 2008, 7:27 Pm http://conservationreport.com/2008/12/28/passivhaus-passive-homes-offer-enormous-energy-savings-through-design-standards-and-efficiency/#comment-2112 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:28:04 +0000 http://conservationreport.com/?p=4924#comment-2112 [...] PASSIVHAUS: Passive homes offer enormous energy savings through … Passive homes are the antithesis to the inefficient, quickly built, and cookie-cutter behemoths constructed in America, and passive homes can reduce our carbon footprint, energy bills, and reliance on foreign/hostile energy sources. … The Conservation Report – http://conservationreport.com/ [...]

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