we are an architectural and engineering office, specialised on passive houses and refurbishment factor 10 ! now we are employing trainees from ireland, scotland and sweden, who wants to learn about energy efficient buildings. for our research we should know if there is a statistic, how much passive house buildings are existing in scotland or uk now and how much of these are certified ? is passivehouse a standard who ist connected with grants or is it free, only by economic decisions, to build it. what is going on in the future ? is carbonzero for example a way of buildings, connected with passive house standards or are there other standards in comparison or lower/higher to the ph ?
tony
9 Oct 2009, 9:58 PM
If that was an advertisement then we didn't want it!
There are so many standards you should know about
AECB, CSH, BREEAM, LOCC, HNER, SAP, BRE etc etc
I wont a pay for any of them.
passivehouseplanner
10 Oct 2009, 10:21 AM
we are part of the certified passivehouseplanner course and interested to make this standard common in whole europe. we are also listed to certify passivehouses by the ph-institute prof. feist and skilled in passive house consulting (energyefficiency advice). we had a group of english investors for passivehouse research in our area last week and a problem to understand their buildingstandards and grants. it seems to be very difficult, to get the standards and they seem to be not the same in scotland/england/wales/n-ireland and also in ireland. we are making lectures about passive house and the economic advantages, in germany, austria,italy and want to know, about the standards in other countrys, we have contact. it`s easyer to sell passive house standard for our local clients in these countrys, in connection with grants, as without. we had done a lot of research by our trainees and i wanted to have information, to finish it. we want to support our customers with information, to make it easier to built this future standards and to support the local evolution to better standards. we began building passive houses in 1999 and are now in construction of over 1200 ph-units, first finished 2009, last 2012 ! there is a lot of work to do in the future and there is now, in my own focus, very little knowledge about the futurebuilding standards in gb and ireland. there is a lot to read about carbonzero and less, how to bring the consumption of energy down, for example in factor 10 with passive house standards. in germany we started to improve with information, good practice buildings and to teach local planners and other buildingpeople, to get the knowledge. every information is also a possibility to show kowledge and in this connenction it is also an kind of advertisement. you can make your own opinion about it.
fridihem
10 Oct 2009, 1:36 PM
Just one thing I would like to say, Passivehouseplanner.
If you press the tangent just below the caps lock tangent, you will be able to use CAPITAL letters, and it would make your comment more interesting to read, really.
