Passive house (German: Passivhaus) is a voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building that reduces the building's carbon footprint. Conforming...

Look up passive, passively, or passivity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Passive may refer to: Passive voice, a grammatical voice common in many languages...

In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in...

Denis Show. In 2024 he launched the new series Todd Talbot Builds: The Passive House Project on Cottage Life. Deane ,Natalie (03/17/17).https://torontosun...

the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Passive survivability is suggested to become a standard in the design criteria for houses, apartment buildings, and especially...

Conservation House pioneered the use of superinsulation and airtightness in passive design and included one of the earliest heat recovery systems. The house did...

Passive ventilation is the process of supplying air to and removing air from an indoor space without using mechanical systems. It refers to the flow of...

materials. Certifications include passive house, BBC—Bâtiment Basse Consommation—Effinergie (France), zero-carbon house (UK), and Minergie (Switzerland)...

not need any seasonal energy storage. Buildings built according to Passive-house standard can provide for removal of the central heating appliance with...

Mixed-mode ventilation Microgeneration Passive cooling Passive daytime radiative cooling Passive house Passive ventilation Radiant heating and cooling...

the USGBC's LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance, Passive House EnerPHit, and Green Globes for Existing Buildings. Some governments...

measurements and weather data were taken from the passive house used in the study. A CFD model of the passive house was created with the measurements taken from...

Passive radar (also referred to as parasitic radar, passive coherent location, passive surveillance, and passive covert radar) is a class of radar systems...

Passive smoking is the inhalation of tobacco smoke, called passive smoke, secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), by individuals other...

renewable energy, and its technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on how they capture and distribute solar...

published for an upgrade to an existing house here. Since the 1980s, passive solar building design and passive house have demonstrated heating energy consumption...

and moisture accumulation, and other effects. For this reason, the Passive House standard established performance requirements for airtightness requiring...

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Passive cooling is a building design approach that focuses on heat gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order to improve the indoor thermal...

weight relative to above grade houses means that earth sheltering remains relatively rare. In this respect, the Passive House (PassivHaus) energy performance...

Passive transport is a type of membrane transport that does not require energy to move substances across cell membranes. Instead of using cellular energy...

virtually eliminate the need for heating, such as those built to the Passive House standard. However, if a building does need full heating, combustion...

achieved using a mechanical 'air conditioner' or by other methods, including passive cooling and ventilative cooling. Air conditioning is a member of a family...

although homes typically achieve 20–30% savings. In comparison, the passive house ultra-low-energy standard, currently undergoing adoption in some other...

heating of facility ventilation air. Their use can help buildings meet Passive House standards or LEED certification. Earth-air heat exchangers have been...

Mixed-mode ventilation Microgeneration Passive cooling Passive daytime radiative cooling Passive house Passive ventilation Radiant heating and cooling...

also the site of North America's first certified passive house, which uses 85% less energy than a house built to the Minnesota Energy Code. Waldsee is America's...

insulating air-gap between the wall and the glaze. A Trombe wall is a passive solar building design strategy that adopts the concept of indirect-gain...

natural ventilation of buildings by using convection of air heated by passive solar energy. A simple description of a solar chimney is that of a vertical...

bills and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Passive House: The Passive House Institute and Passive House Institute US (PHIUS+) standards focus on designing...