Windmill House
Nestled in the countryside just outside Hillsborough County Down, this award-winning house was built using the core principles of Passive House construction. [...]
Here we will be keeping you up to date with our current PassivHaus project that is due to start on site March 2014. Currently we are processing the plans though the PassivHaus software.
Nestled in the countryside just outside Hillsborough County Down, this award-winning house was built using the core principles of Passive House construction. [...]
One year on and its a great time to see how well this passive house is performing [...]
A timelapse video of GP Developments building a PassivHaus certified house from beginning to end [...]
As plastering has now finished, we can now get a feel for how effective the solar gains will be [...]
A few visits from the South West College Dungannon, spreading the Passive House word. [...]
Before plasterboarding we carried out another air tightness test and were happy to see that our reading [...]
To improve the floor U-value we decided in the end to go for a free flowing screed that [...]
The Scaffolding has finally been dismantled and only now do we get a good look at our first Passive House. [...]
First (and only) foreign component arrived today after a 3 week journey from Germany [...]
In our design and subsequent PHPP we had chosen materials that were either not widely available or were simply found [...]
We chose timber frame over a masonry construction as it was seen as a much easier way to achieve the crucial [...]
Having investigated other options we stuck with the specified windows in our PHPP for the project as [...]
Amongst other advantages, the timber frame kit came with "Easi-Joists" that meant we could thread through services [...]
Our PHPP (Passive House Planning Package) has had the provisional thumbs up from the Passive House Academy [...]
Our PHPP (Passive House Planning Package) has had the provisional thumbs up from the Passive House Academy [...]
Our PHPP (Passive House Planning Package) has had the provisional thumbs up from the Passive House Academy [...]
Within the coming months we have been given the opportunity to construct a 144m² dwelling in Dungannon [...]