Passive House Institute and US Green Building Council

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Alejandro Moreno-Rangel
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Passive House

Key Technologies and Trends of Passive Buildings

2014 ◽  
Vol 672-674 ◽  
pp. 1859-1862
Author(s):  
Li Zhong Shi ◽  
Ye Min Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Passive House ◽  
Green Building Materials ◽  
Low Energy Consumption ◽  
Key Technologies ◽  
Low Energy Buildings ◽  
Passive Houses

In recent years, ‘passive house’ is an increasingly well-known word, and has gained rapid popularity and application in Europe and other developed countries. Currently, residential passive house is growing at 8% annually in Europe. With its low energy consumption and ultra-high comfort, it is acclaimed as the most promising energy-saving substitute of conventional residences of this century. The passive houses in Hamburg Germany use 75% less energy than the normal low-energy buildings, more than 90% less than conventional German buildings [1]. As reported by the National Conference of Green Building Materials and German Passive House Technology held from 22nd to 25th April 2014, passive house will certainly become the mainstream building in the country in the next three to five years.

Design of the Envelope System to Implement the Zero-Energy on High Rise Multi-Unit Dwelling in Korea

2014 ◽  
Vol 525 ◽  
pp. 403-407
Author(s):  
Bo Hye Choi ◽  
Gyeong Seok Choi ◽  
Jae Sik Kang ◽  
Seung Yeong Song
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Home Market ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Passive House ◽  
Construction Market ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Incentive Policy ◽  
Competitive Price ◽  
Building Market

The market size of green building is presumed to be occupying about 5% on construction market in 2008. Since then, the green building market kept enlarged up to about $3.7 trillion. Eventually, the market is forecast to grow about $78 trillion in 2020. According to the case of Passive House in Germany, the house is no longer high cost and future-oriented dwelling form but customer can afford like an existing house due to a drop in prices. Therefore, it is predicted to obtain a competitive price on the Green Home market soon in Korea. This research demonstrates the possibility to secure economics at this stage when the Zero-Energy on High Rise Multi-Unit Dwelling is fulfilled with a commercialization and consisted of expended incentive policy.

scholarly journals Effect of LCA Data Sources on GBRS Reference Values: The Envelope of an Italian Passive House

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1883
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Palumbo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Threshold Values ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
Passive House ◽  
The Impact

Scientific literature provides evidence that mitigating the effects of a building’s operation does not in itself ensure an overall improvement in its environmental performance. A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) plays a key role in gauging the overall environmental performance of a building although several authors argue that the lack of LCA threshold values makes it difficult to compare design options or measure whether reduced impact targets are achieved. This has led the Green Building Rating Systems (GBRS) to include the LCA within their evaluation criteria and, in like Active House (AH), establish threshold values of the main impact categories to quantify the level of performance achieved. Since the reliability of the data sources is a crucial issue for applying the LCA method, the effectiveness of their implementation within the GBRS also strictly depends on the origin of the impact values. To quantify the extent to which the source affects the impacts calculated by the LCA threshold value in AH, the present study compared the outcomes of two assessments carried out in parallel using two different data sources: AH–LCA evaluation tool v.1.6 and the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). A Passive House (PH)-compliant, small residential building was selected as a case study, as this is a standard that excels in ultra-low-energy performance. Moreover, given the crucial role that the envelope plays in the PH standard, the analysis was undertaken on the envelope of a PH-compliant building located in Northern Italy. To stress the influence of embedded effects in a Passive House, the assessment focused on the production and end-of-life stages of building materials. The comparison showed a relevant difference between the two scenarios for all the environmental indicators: e.g., deviations of 10% for Global Warming Potential, 20% for Acidification Potential and Eutrophication Potential, and 40–50% for Renewable Primary Energy.

Unveiling the Future: ASHA Dedicates Green Building

ASHA Leader ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Dee Naquin Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
The Future

Green Architecture and its applications in Hospitals:Analytical study of existing project to extract the mechanisms of applying green architecture in hospitals

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Anfal Muayad Mayoof
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Complex Function ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Green Architecture ◽  
Reduce Energy Consumption ◽  
The One

Hospitals are the major contributor to environmental corruption and the biggest drain onenergy in their life cycle because they are complex, multifunctional giant facilities. Several recent studieshave been carried out to find the most suitable solutions to reduce energy consumption provide it on-siteand contribute to supporting economic, environmental and social aspects. The reason for the slowmovement of green buildings for hospitals is to focus on a suitable design for the complex function thatdeals with the local climate, natural resources, economy and cultural values and avoid the one-size-fits alldesign. This made the solutions used multiple and varied, different for greening of the hospital and put theresearch in the absence of a clear perception of the mechanisms of the application of green architecture inhospitals and this identified the problem of research. Therefore, the study looked at an analytical study ofexisting project models designed according to the strategies and standards of green architecture todetermine the strategies adopted in each project, and by adopting the analytical method after determiningthe strategy used in each building to achieve the green architecture and then comparing them according tothe standards adopted using the global LEED system Green Building Council. The results that will bereached are the mechanisms of applying Green Architecture to Hospitals.

Intel's First Designed and Built Green Building

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 27-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dori Hershgal
Keyword(s):  
Green Building

Geographical aspects of the diffusion of passive houses

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Kozma ◽  
E. Molnár ◽  
K. Czimre ◽  
J. Pénzes
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Passive House ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Passive Houses ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Geographical Locations ◽  
Over Time

Abstract In our days, energy issues belong to the most important problems facing the Earth and the solution may be expected partly from decreasing the amount of the energy used and partly from the increased utilisation of renewable energy resources. A substantial part of energy consumption is related to buildings and includes, inter alia, the use for cooling/heating, lighting and cooking purposes. In the view of the above, special attention has been paid to minimising the energy consumption of buildings since the late 1980s. Within the framework of that, the passive house was created, a building in which the thermal comfort can be achieved solely by postheating or postcooling of the fresh air mass without a need for recirculated air. The aim of the paper is to study the changes in the construction of passive houses over time. In addition, the differences between the geographical locations and the observable peculiarities with regard to the individual building types are also presented.

Rethinking Private Authority

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica F. Green
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Multilateral Environmental Agreements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Delegation Of Authority ◽  
Private Authority ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Treaty Implementation

This book examines the role of nonstate actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. It identifies two distinct forms of private authority—one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, the book shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years, largely in the area of treaty implementation. This contrasts with entrepreneurial authority, where most private environmental rules have been created in the past two decades. The book traces how this dynamic and fast-growing form of private authority is becoming increasingly common in areas ranging from organic food to green building practices to sustainable tourism. It persuasively argues that the configuration of state preferences and the existing institutional landscape are paramount to explaining why private authority emerges and assumes the form that it does. In-depth cases on climate change provide evidence for the book's arguments. The book demonstrates that authority in world politics is diffused across multiple levels and diverse actors, and it offers a more complete picture of how private actors are helping to shape our response to today's most pressing environmental problems.

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