{"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. Typically this includes very good insulation levels, very good airtightness of the building, while a good indoor air quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,13,28,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building","category-eco-friendly","category-inspiration","category-lifestyle","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10071,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/10071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}