Category: Chris’s Low Energy Renovation
Whilst we support many of the underlying principle of Passivhaus design, we don’t believe that Passivhaus principle and design are the most suitable approach to retrofitting most of the UK’s buildings. Essentially this is for the following reasons: – Passivhaus...
I’ve also added the project to the Low energy building database where it compares very well to other buildings – check out the actual figures compared to Passivhaus houses (in warmer years).
Some of the graph logic has now been updated on the CarbonBuzz website so I thought I’d post an update. As you can see from the below, which shows KgCO2 per m2, our first year was pretty much exactly what...
We’ve entered our demonstration project onto CarbonBuzz and will continue to enter data as we take meter readings. Its interesting to see that despite the house still having work to be done (i.e. holes!) in the first year and a...
Can you spot which photos are before and after? ...
2013 Hope Villa figures on CarbonBuzz and Low Energy Building Database
By Chris Newman January 29th, 2013
We’ve now got our first calendar year of bills (as opposed to first consecutive months) and its starting to look really good. Our Hope Villa figures for the first full year of a completed house will be around May but...
We’ve just received the results of our Superhome assessment. Essentially in order for you to be a Superhome you need to have made physical amendments to the property that result in its CO2 emissions being reduced by over 60%. You also have to...