{"id":239,"date":"2007-07-23T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/inspiration-passive-house\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:57","slug":"inspiration-passive-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/inspiration-passive-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration: Passive House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/passive-house.jpg\" alt=\"passive house Belgium\">From Beligium is a project that caught my attention recently. Passive House denotes a specific construction standard for residential buildings with good comfort conditions during winter and summer, without traditional heating systems and without active cooling. <\/p>\n<p>Typically this includes very good insulation levels, very good airtightness of the building, while a good indoor air quality is guaranteed by a mechanical ventilation system with highly efficient heat recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The website is aimed at the technically-minded, but the rest of us can grab the gist of concept all the same. Passive House is an approved concept of very low-energy buildings, and already successfully applied on large scale in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. It also includes a very nicely presented Powerpoint-style presentation that is well worth listening to. And <a href=\"http:\/\/lpqi.copperwire.org\/WE12\/speechi.html\">here<\/a> it is.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Beligium is a project that caught my attention recently. Passive House denotes a specific construction standard for residential buildings with good comfort conditions during winter and summer, without traditional heating systems and without active cooling. 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