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Passivhaus design

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What is Passivhaus?

A Passivhaus is an ultra-energy-efficient building design, utilising insulation, airtightness, high-performance windows, and passive solar gain to minimise your homes’ energy consumption.

A home built to Passivhaus standards maintains consistent indoor temperatures without heavy reliance on active heating or cooling. This will significantly reduce your carbon emissions while ensuring superior comfort and indoor air quality.

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What are the benefits of Passivhaus to me and my build?

Choosing to build a Passivhaus offers you substantial energy savings (up to 90%), resulting in lower utility bills and long-term cost-efficiency. It also provides exceptional comfort while reducing your environmental impact and ensuring a healthy living environment for you and your family.

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The steps to designing your Passivhaus

From initial design to certification

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Architectural design - Our team will contact you to discuss your design ideas and budget. These ideas are then incorporated into your design and checked through the Passivhaus Institute's software to ensure your building meets the standard.

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Planning - We will work with your local planner to ensure we marry your vision, any local planning requirements, and the technical energy performance required for PassivHaus certification.

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Building Regulations - Our technical team will meticulously prepare and submit the drawings needed to secure approval to build your project.

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Our Passivhaus builds

Delivering beautiful oak framed homes to Passivhaus energy-efficiency standards

Self-build

YEAR OF BUILD:2019

YEAR OF BUILD: 2019

The UK’s first certified oak frame Passivhaus Bed and Breakfast in Worcestershire

Introduced to the Passivhaus concept by our Founder Tim Crump, Andrew and Linda took the idea by the horns and created their stunning oak framed Passivhaus B&B, the first of its kind!

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The UK’s first oak frame eco-home to meet rigorous Passivhaus standards

In 2016, Phil and Yvonne Garnett set about realising their ambitions to design and construct a traditionally-styled, oak frame eco-home in Yorkshire. Having broadened their understanding of sustainable construction, their vision evolved into an ambitious self-build project to construct the UK’s first oak frame Passivhaus new build home, as later featured here by Passive House Plus magazine.

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