Passivhaus

How can future housing achieve sustainable goals? Janet Cotterell explains the principles behind one solution: Passivhaus

by Janet Cotterell 13th September 2013

The Passivhaus energy standard has been in use for the last twenty years. It was originally conceived by Wolfgang Feist, a German physicist, who could not understand why housing did not perform as designed and how wasteful we were being of our valuable energy resources.