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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · 9d

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · 9d

Worcester school hall is UK's first 'multi-comfort' building - The Thursday long read mailchi.mp/passivehouse...
#passivehouse #passivhaus

Picture shows blurry images of children playing in a new school hall

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · 16d

If you want the next issue of Passive House Plus free of charge, and to get in contact with the leading suppliers in sustainable building for any upcoming projects, just fill out this form and tell us your plans!

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · 16d

To 2015 and issue 10 of Passive House Plus for your long read, when work had just finished on architect Paul McNally's super low energy project: a three-storey building in Tipperary that had just become Ireland's first certified #passivehouse pharmacy.

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Picture shows the front facade of a pharmacy in Ireland, the first there to be built to the passive house standard

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Sep 11

Simple-yet-stylish West Berkshire #passivehouse that bore a business

This week, a #timberframe home that met the passive house standard, launched a brand new design-and-build venture & embraced an elegant design while drawing inspiration from the local vernacular.

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Picture taken at dusk of a timber frame Passive House, built in West Berkshire

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Sep 4

A longtime contributor to Passive House Plus, Peter Rickaby looks back on an extraordinary career, the challenge of convincing people of the need for a new approach to buildings, and the people who helped him to do just that.

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#passivehouse

Picture shows Dr Peter Rickaby who has over thirty-five years of experience as an energy and sustainability consultant working for the building and housing industries

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here’s their website, by the way: www.flynnheatrecovery.com

Heat Recovery Ventilation Systems | Improve Indoor Air

Improve your indoor air & say goodbye to mould. We design, install, commission & maintain MVHR systems. Call now.

www.flynnheatrecovery.com

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hi Helena. I just checked with Maurice Flynn of Flynn Heat Recovery, and they can service Paul units - right down to inspecting and, if necessary, cleaning ductwork. I’ll DM you his details.

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Aug 28

A tight budget meant some ambitious eco features planned for this simple and graceful new farmhouse were dropped, yet it still managed to meet Irish nZEB standards thanks to a combination of superb detailing and fabric-first design.

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#passivehouse

Photo shows a new farmhouse in a countryside setting, built to the nearly zero energy building standard

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Aug 21

Flat earth - Tenement #retrofit shows solution for Glasgow archetype

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#passivehouse #passivaus #enerphit

Picture is a street level view of a newly restored tenement building in Glasgow

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Jul 31

Scottish isle eco cottages need no central heating -

Two spectacular #lowenergy #socialhousing units look out over Ulva Ferry’s breath-taking views & prove to be a superb response to local problems of #fuelpoverty and lack of #affordablefamilyhousing.

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Photograph shows two timber passive houses side by side, overlooking the bay at Ulva Ferry in Scotland

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Jul 25

Treat for Friday night PHP subscribers, the new issue has just been published online! Enjoy the commute ;)

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Irish cover of Passive House Plus magazine

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Jun 26

Mike Eliason, founder of Larch Lab & author of Building for People, reflects how events from the pandemic & #climate disasters to #urbanhousing challenges – shaped his mission to bring #sustainable, community-focused, and #climateadaptive living to the US
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Picture shows a people-first street in Vienna’s Seestadt. Plenty of bikes and no cars.

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Jun 12

One of the biggest threats in the air we breathe comes from something we are exposed to almost every day, but rarely think about: #cooking.
In i33 of #passivehouse plus we reported on the evidence for how cooking affects #indoorairquality, and what we can do about it.

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Picture shows a chef holding a cooking pot, while wearing a gas mask, to highlight the health risks from indoor air quality in a kitchen

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Mel Reynolds @maoiliosarey.bsky.social · Jun 11

Sobering reading here “Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief” @phplus.bsky.social @passivehouseie.bsky.social @passivhaustrust.bsky.social
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Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief

A “collapse” of key Atlantic ocean currents would cause winter temperatures to plunge across northern Europe, overriding the warming driven by human activity.

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Mariana G Pickering @passivemariana.bsky.social · Mar 26

My starter pack for #PassiveHouse powerhouses and pioneers on BluSky. Waiting for more to join!

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Jun 5

Slope and Glory -

Architect Tony Godwin wandered into #passivehouse seminar #Ecobuild to start a journey that would see him design his own passive home on a sloping site — achieving a comfortable, ultra-low energy family home with tiny #energybills
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Exterior of a comfortable, ultra-low energy family home at night

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · May 27

The finance sector must get serious about green homes — and fast.

Tomorrow (28 May), the Smarter Finance for EU consortium is hosting a key conference in Madrid on finance + certified green homes.

The event is being recorded.

Click here to request access:
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Banking on green homes - Madrid event

Come meet the Smarter Finance for EU team at our conference in Madrid on Wednesday, 28 May.

www.smarterfinance4.eu

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · May 15

Traditional Irish cottage looks to the future - This week we look back at a cottage in the west of Ireland that, despite some stop-start beginnings, delivered a traditional-but-stylish design with close-to-#passivehouse performance.

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Picture of a cottage in the west of Ireland, that's been beautifully retrofitted

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David Healy @davidhealy.bsky.social · May 12

The High Court has granted me leave to challenge the permission to demolish and replace the Deer Park Hotel.

Much of our building stock is destroyed and replaced with new resources. The planet cannot afford such waste. Demolition can be justified; ABP needs to make sure it is. davidhealy.com?p=1834

Leave granted for a Judicial Review of the permission for demolition of Deer Park Hotel. | David Healy

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Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · May 8

19th century home drops #energydemand by 94%

This ambitious #A1 #retrofit of a Dublin redbrick exceeded the #NZEB standard - a beautifully-detailed blueprint for delivering warmth, comfort, and healthy indoor air in historic city centre properties - t.co/U7pST7dJSm

Exterior shot of a red brick terraced single storey home in Dublin

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ChristophersDad @christophersdad.bsky.social · May 4

“[...] Different studies have shown again and again how important it is to maintain good indoor air quality and a good environment in schools, and it is a matter of social justice as well, [...]” - Chryssa Thoua, in: issue 36, Passive House Plus magazine (2021)
#IAQ #CleanAir

Passive House Plus @phplus.bsky.social · Mar 5

We couldn’t agree more Michelle. Here’s a piece on indoor air quality in classrooms that we published during the pandemic, which compares monitoring results of a typical school, an early eco school with natural ventilation and two certified passive schools:

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Breathing room - why it's time to get serious about ventilation - passivehouseplus.ie

It's time to get serious about classroom ventilation

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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · Apr 23

Everyone is talking about Greenland but the Greens are here to talk *with* Greenland.

Together with @greens-efa.eu , our co-chairs @vulatsetsi.bsky.social & @ciarancuffe.bsky.social went to witness first-hand the impact of climate change on Greenland.

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🇬🇱💚 Nothing about Greenland without Greenland!

YouTube video by European Greens

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Fred Logue @fplogue.bsky.social · Mar 8

An important update - we are launching a planning litigation tracker today - still in beta but as far as I am aware the only (semi) reliable source of data on planning litigation in this jurisdiction

FP Logue LLP @fploguellp.bsky.social · Mar 8

So we are soft-launching a beta of our Planning and Environment Litigation Tracker today 🧵

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Photograph of the Four Courts building in Dublin Ireland

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Apr 22

Yes, definitely.

The Ecologist @theecologist.org · Apr 22

Is the push for carbon capture just a handy excuse to keep burning more fossil fuels?

Carbon capture, or political capture?

Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) technologies are no silver bullet. But are they just an excuse to continue burning fossil fuels?

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