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Energy. CLEA. Haus Institut. Passivhaus: The Passivhaus Standard. What is Passivhaus? Passivhaus or 'Passive House' is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world with 30,000 buildings realised to date with the majority of those since the turn of the century. The Passivhaus standards strengths lie in the simplicity of its approach; build a house that has an excellent thermal performance, exceptional airtightness with mechanical ventilation! This robust approach to building design allows the designer to minimise the 'Heating Demand' of the building and in some residential buildings only specify a heated towel rail as means of conventional heating, this heat can then be recovered and circulated by a Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery (MVHR) unit.
The Standards Origins The Passivhaus standard was developed in Germany in the early 1990s by Professors Bo Adamson of Sweden and Wolfgang Feist of Germany and the first dwellings to be completed to the Passivhaus Standard were constructed in Darmstadt in 1991. Global Application Fuel Poverty. Www.passivhaus-handwerk.de/upload/120718_Course_Structure.pdf. Passivhaus:The world's leading fabric first approach to low energy buildings. Nypassivehouse.org.