Goldsmith St.
Our role: Mechanical services design Passivhaus consultancy The project: ~100 dwellings for Norwich City Council. The scheme comprises a mix of 2- and 3-storey houses and apartment blocks. We have developed simple services with the focus on designing for install, commissioning and use. As Passivhaus consultants our input has been most notable on the glazing design, where we have helped balance heat loss, overheating risk and daylight design. The architects are Riches Hawley Mikhail and we have worked with GreenGauge on the building services. Follow this link to...
Primrose Park
Our role: Passivhaus consultancy including site support The project: Bodmin Road will provide 72 homes (6 of which are flats, the rest two storey houses) on a brownfield site in Plymouth. The first 3 blocks achieved Passivhaus Certification in April 2018, with the rest of the site due to follow during 2018. Our focus: As Passivhaus consultants our input has been concentrated on three areas: Glazing design, where we have helped balance heat loss, overheating risk and daylight design. Simple services with focus on designing for installation, commissioning...
Agar grove
Our role Passivhaus Certification The project: ~350 dwellings over a number of blocks. Initially 35 flats in a single block. Our focus: The larger site at Agar poses many different problems in comparison to low rise dwellings, for example the mechanical services design becomes critical and thermal bridging can be much more significant. As well as certifying this project we have provided training for the design teams, given initial advice on buildability and thermal performance, and are looking forward to significant site presence. The team...
Admirals Hard
Our role Passivhaus consultancy + design services (refurbishment) Mechanical services design On-site project management Post occupancy monitoring The project: An office above a newsagent’s in Plymouth, originally built in the 1950s. Although the entire building was treated to a thermal performance upgrade, only the office is EnerPHit certified. Our focus: This is the latest in string of low-energy development projects by WARM homes. As it is our own office and we wanted to be as involved as possible throughout the process. We undertook all the major design work,...
Meditation Centre
Our role: Ventilation services design The project: A new meditation centre in Hereford Our focus: We undertook the mechanical ventilation design for the new pagoda at a meditation centre. There were some very specific requirements, in particular very stringent acoustic criteria which required some novel thinking, research and collaboration. The team: Client: Dhamma Padhana Architect: Constructive Individuals Architectural...
Fairglen
Our role: Passivhaus consultancy & mechanical services design The project: 20 homes for open market, one of the first purely speculative Passivhaus developments in the UK Our focus: Lowering construction cost whist achieving Passivhaus. Low energy all electric heating and hot water design. The team: Client: Percy Williams Construction Architects: Lilly Lewarne...
Greater Gaddesden
Our role: Passivhaus consultancy & certification The project: A terrace of 4 homes Our focus: We helped develop the proposals so that an uplift to Passivhaus was achievable with a very small increase in cost The team: Client: Hastoe Housing Association Architects: DP...
Westbury Estate
Our role: Energy consultancy advising on HFL’s Fabric First Strategy The project: ~250 homes across 7 blocks Our focus: Optimisation of the form of the blocks to ensure low cost and low energy The team: Client: Homes for Lambeth Architects: Metropolitan...
Sally’s house
Our role: Passivhaus consultancy, detailed design, services design & install. The project: Detached home of 130m2 Our focus: Making it happen! The team: Client: Godber...
Pembrey school
Our role: Passivhaus consultancy pre-planning The project: Primary school Our focus: Working in collaboration with CCC we’ve used our previous knowledge of Passivhaus schools to get the best out of the project The team: Client: Carmarthenshire County Council Architects: Carmarthenshire County...
Passivhaus Health Centre
Our role: Mechanical services design The project: A feasibility study to investigate in depth what a 2,000m2 Passivhaus health centre would comprise of. The study found significant savings in the capital cost, particularly in relation to the mechanical services, in comparison to a standard build. Our focus: Getting the best out of the form and glazing distribution The team: Client: Community Health Partnerships Architects: Accredited Passivhaus...
Threescore
Our role: Passivhaus certification The project: Rayne Park in Norwich is set to become one of the largest Passivhaus housing scheme built in the UK for Norfolk Regeneration Company. The first few phases of the 112 planned Passivhaus homes have now been completed and handed over. Hanson Barron Smith architects have used contemporary interpretations of traditional Norfolk vernacular architecture across the site. They will range from one-bed to five-bed homes with 57 being affordable housing and are part of a much wider plan to build 1,000 homes...
Uni of Leicester
Our role Passivhaus Certification The project: New academic research and teaching building, with a floor area over 9,000m2 it will be the largest Passivhaus building in the UK once it achieves certification. Our focus: Our role has been to support the contractor’s Passivhaus designer, with a particular focus on aspects relating to the building envelope and ventilation system. In particular, we developed a methodology to input the complex curtain walling façade system into the PHPP in a robust manner. We have had a strong site presence...
The Nokes
Our role Mechanical services design (detailed design) The project: 9 social housing flats in a single block in Hemel Hempstead. Our focus: We designed central systems to provide ventilation and baseload heating and hot water without the need for billing. We took particular care in designing the distribution to ensure that heat losses were minimised to save energy and also reduce the overheating risk. We also designed the controls and user information to be as simple as possible for occupant use. The team: Client: Dacorum Borough Council...
Rainham
Our role Passivhaus consultancy Mechanical services design – pre-planning Daylight & sunlight modelling, planning energy reports The project: 51 social (affordable rental) homes comprising 34 houses in 3 terraces and 17 flats in one apartment block located in Rainham, Havering. Our focus: The aim was to make the form as simple as possible to ensure Passivhaus was easily achievable. We provided Passivhaus design support from concept to completion including thermal bridge modelling, airtightness training, ventilation commissioning support and user guides. We successfully negotiated Passivhaus Certification in lieu of the...
ChesterBalmore
Our role Passivhaus Certification Passivhaus consultancy The project: 53 flats and maisonettes – 26 private, 4 intermediate, and 23 affordable Our focus: Our role has extended beyond the confines of pure Certification, we provided initial design advice to the team, attended site regularly during construction, helped to fault find and made suggestions for improvements. We also wrote a clear occupant handbook and visited occupants to help them to use their home efficiently. The team: Client: Camden Council Architect: Rick Mather Architects / Architype Main contractor: Willmott...
Sharnbrook
Our role: Mechanical services design Passivhaus consultancy The project: Social housing development of 13 dwellings comprising of 13 houses and 2 flats in Bedfordshire. Our focus: We have provided pre-planning advice, particularly focusing on reducing the risk of overheating and increasing buildability. The team: Client : Hastoe Group Architect: dparchitects Picture by Parrott...
Woodham Pl.
Our role: Mechanical services design Passivhaus consultancy The project: 18 flats in Surrey. The scheme comprises 3 blocks of 6 flats. Our focus: In particular, we have been guiding the designers as to the relative advantages of centralised vs decentralised heating, hot water and MVHR systems. Our focus has been on helping them to achieve a system that is cost-effective to install, cheap to run, easy to control and simple to maintain. The team: Client:Greenoak Housing Association Architects: Studio...
Ford Close
Our role: Passivhaus consultancy Mechanical services design Co-heating test Post occupancy monitoring & occupant support The project: 20 social houses in rural Cornwall completed in 2011. Passivhaus was chosen because there was no gas on the site, and the housing association had very poor experience with heat pumps. Our focus: This was our first significant Passivhaus scheme, we provided consultancy from concept through to completion on the building fabric. We undertook the mechanical services design, which relied heavily on electricity for heating and hot water (plus...
Stiltskin Theatre
Our role: Mechanical services design Passivhaus consultancy The project: The Stiltskin Theatre project involves the repurposing of a Second World War Gas Decontamination Station, as a Children’s Theatre, with the additional aim of meeting the EnerPhit standard. The project has recently received planning permission. Our focus: We have used our experience of Passivhaus retrofit techniques to inform the proposed insulation airtightness and ventilation designs, working closely with the architect to identify robust and cost effective solutions. The team: The client is Stiltskin Theatre & Arts Company, the architects are...
Turners Hill Road
Our role: Passivhaus design consultancy The project: 26 affordable homes in West Sussex with two storey semi-detached and terraced houses, and 12 flats in two blocks. Our focus: Our focus was on optimising fabric U-values and careful detailing of critical junctions (such as wall to floor junctions and thresholds), along with close attention to shading and overheating risk, using glazing specifications and fence designs to reduce or increase solar gain as needed on each block. The team: The client was Hastoe Housing association, the architects...
Trinity Court
Our role: Passivhaus Certification Post occupancy monitoring The project: 3 social housing dwellings in Somerset. Our focus: We certified these buildings in 2013 and following occupation undertook detailed monitoring of gas, water, electricity, temperature, heating and hot water over a 2-year period. The results have been invaluable in our understanding of how Passivhaus dwellings are used. The team: Client:Yarlington Housing Group Architect: B3 Architecture Main contractor:...
Oakfield Road
Our role: Passivhaus design consultancy Mechanical services design – pre-planning The project: 8 single terrace of houses in South London. Our Focus: We are working alongside Climate Energy Homes (as with their previous scheme at Rainham) to provide support for the design and contractor team. Our focus has been on reducing the overheating risk, simplifying detailing to improve buildability and giving mechanical services advice pre and post planning. The team: The client is London and Quadrant Housing, the architects are Traer Clark, the timber frame is provided...
St. Andrew’s Road
Our role Mechanical services design Passivhaus consultancy + design services (refurbishment) The project: Retrofit of a 3 storey terrace in Exmouth to be used as housing for vulnerable adults. Aspiring to EnerPHit certification. Our focus: Following our experience with our own office we undertook a substantial part of the fabric design. We modelled the building in the PHPP, developed a strategy to meet EnerPHit and created working drawings (including airtightness detailing, THERM modelling etc.) We have developed a low energy services strategy within the constraints...
Hampshire Children’s Homes
The aim of the project was to design one building that could be built on multiple sites across the county. We are helping the team to achieve Passivhaus on each of the large dwellings (~250 m2). The client was Hampshire County Council and the architects were Hampshire County Council Property Services. Hampshire County Council Property...
Cameron Close
Our role: Passivhaus consultancy Post occupancy monitoring The project: 16 semi-detached houses and 12 sheltered apartments on the Isle of Wight. Our focus: During the design and construction stages we worked closely with the Architect to optimise building form fabric performance within design constraints and manage overheating risk. During the construction phase we liaised closely with the contractor to troubleshoot any issues which arose with regard to airtightness, thermal bridging and MVHR installation. We are undertaking detailed post occupancy evaluation of the energy use of this development...
Richmond Hill School
Our role Passivhaus Certification Passivhaus consultancy The project: This is the largest and most complex of the Passivhaus schools we have been involved in, completed in 2012 it is located in Leeds. Our focus: Further to our research into the application of Passivhaus in UK schools and our experience at Montgomery school we provided expert support to the design and construction team, as well as certifying the project. The team: Client:Leeds City Council Architect/PH designer:Space Group Contractor: Interserve 2012 – This is the largest and most complex...
Montgomery Primary School
Our role Passivhaus consultancy Passivhaus Certification The project: A new primary school in Exeter Our focus: Certified in early 2012, along with the Wolverhampton schools, Montgomery was one of the first three Passivhaus schools in the UK. Building Magazine has released an article on the school: The school won the New build Project of the Year at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2014 The team: The client is Exeter City Council, the architects are NPS Exeter and the contractor is BAM Construction...
Bryce Lodge
Our role: Passivhaus consultancy Mechanical services design The project: 12 social houses in Horsham, completed in 2012. Our focus: Following the success for Ford Close we helped in providing Passivhaus support. We helped to develop the SIP system from Innovare, and worked on building layouts, glazing distribution and shading. Heating was provided by a gas boiler with solar thermal for hot water. The team: Client: Saxon Weald Architect:MH architects Contractor: Osborne Certification by Co-create...
Sulgrave Gardens
Our role: Passivhaus Certification The project: 18 mixed tenure dwellings in London completed in 2012 (plus a further 12 that were close to meeting Passivhaus) Our focus: The team was relatively inexperienced so in addition to certification we provided support on all aspects, from how to apply PHPP to a larger site to what to look for on site. Once completed we also helped with fault finding and remedial work to ensure the occupants got the best out of the project. The team: Client:Octavia Housing Architect: Cartwright Pickard ...
