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Comprised of three buildings – a traditional stone barn, a round-roofed Dutch barn, and an outlying building – the property ...
The Digital Academy for the Sustainable Built Environment (DASBE) is offering what may be the last opportunity for workers to ...
Architect Mel Reynolds's stunning new passive mews in South Dublin is featured in the new issue of Passive House Plus magazine. You can view a technically detailed virtual tour of the property ...
A disastrous failed external insulation contract run under a government energy saving scheme has affected up to 390 homes in Preston with water penetration, mould and damp.
Heating cost: €12 per month space heating cost. See 'In detail' panel for more information. It’s hard to know exactly where to start with David and Maria Murray’s new home. This exemplar passive house ...
While this striking new larch-clad home in rural East Sussex ultimately received the backing of the local planners, there was just one catch: it had to meet the passive house standard before its ...
The Passive House Institute’s announcement of new classes of passive house certification – including renewable energy generation – at this year’s International Passive House Conference caused ...
This article was originally published in issue 50 of Passive House Plus magazine. Want immediate access to all back issues and exclusive extra content? Click here to subscribe for as little as €15, or ...
Ireland's largest developer embraces passive house standards to create energy-efficient, sustainable buildings.
With obsessive attention to preserving and restoring the original fabric of these two Victorian townhouses, and a commitment to shunning petrochemicals and using only natural materials, could this be ...
With this passive house in Co Kildare, father-and-son building team Pat and Paul Doran prove that meeting the strict low energy standard can be done for even less than a ‘normal’ build – to the tune ...
It’s fair to say that green building wasn’t a thing in early 90s Ireland, which makes one extraordinary Dublin project from 1994 all the more remarkable, as Dr. Marc O Riain writes.