Seminar: Passive House, the Backbone for the Scottish Zero Carbon Strategy

Seminar attendees discussing passive housing

Thursday, 26th August 2010

Passive House or Passivhaus – a design methodology and voluntary performance standard for optimised energy use in buildings. It results in buildings that require little or no energy use for heating or cooling, have excellent internal thermal comfort and low primary energy use. See how you can profit from many years of experience in Passive House building technology.

The full day seminar will show case the present Passive House buildings in Scotland and the UK, first monitored results and will explain details of the building methodology, which will be the backbone of the strategy to implement the toughened building regulations of 2016.

The challenge for achieving highly energy efficient building is to design to the following criteria:

  • a super insulated, 
  • thermal bridge free and 
  • air tight thermal envelope, 
  • while maintaining a good indoor air quality.

Ross Barrat from HLM Architects will give a presentation on the design of the 3 Passive Houses for Scotland's Housing Fair 2010. The live project will show the detailing of the design, the construction process, products and problems that were encountered.  More about the project.

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Theme:

The full day seminar will show case the present Passive House buildings in Scotland and the UK, first monitored results and will explain details of the building methodology, which will be the backbone of the strategy to implement the toughened building regulations of  2013.

Run down of the seminar:

9:00am Registration and networking

9:45am The Passive House Concept

  1. Introduction to the Passive House concept
  2. Passive House so far (a brief history and summary of development)
  3. Passive House Criteria
  4. Passive House compared with standard construction in Scotland
  5. Passive House Advantages

10:45am Building Envelope  (short break at 11:15am)

  1. Super Insulation
  2. Air-tightness
  3. Thermal bridge free construction
  4. Passive House windows & doors
  5. Materials and material specification (quality assurance & tendering)

12:00pm Building Services

  1. Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR)
  2. Space Heating
  3. Heat supply for DHW
  4. Installation of services
  5. Products and materials

1pm Lunch

2pm Implementing Passive House in Scotland

  1. Passive House developments so far
  2. Capital costs and payback times
  3. Achieving Passive House Quality
  4. Passive house and compliance with current and future legislation (2013 and 2020)
  5. Passive House potential for growth in Scotland

3pm PHPP – Passive House calculation Tool   - short break at 3.30pm

  1. Introduction to PHPP (Passive House Planning Package)
  2. Using PHPP for design and calculation
  3. PHPP compared to SAP 
  4. PHPP Advantages

3.45pm Guest Speaker: Ross Barratt, HLM Architects

  1. Passive House Development at Scotland’s Highland Housing Fair, Plots 11 & 12

4.15pm Seminar Round-up

  1. Summary of Information
  2. Questions and discussion

Location, Costs and Bookings:

Thu, 26th August 2010, 9am, The Scottish Passive House Centre, 24 Fairykirk Road, Rosyth, KY11 2QQ

Cost incl. full catering: £180.00 + VAT = £211.50