Silverton Passivhaus achieves Passivhaus certification
Silverton Passivhaus designed by b3 Architecture and built with natural materials has been certified by Cocreate Consulting. This family home is a re-development of a 1950's bungalow set in the Devon countryside. The existing bungalow was stripped, demolished and crushed in to hardcore to use under the new house. Planning restrictions meant that building up was not allowed so they went down in to the ground.
The building is timber frame construction with various forms of woodfibre insulation supplied by Back to Earth, the developers on the project, Energexe and Warm were the Building Services and Building Physics consultants respectively. The house was designed specifically to accommodate the needs of the family's disabled child.
The basement was built using Logixx ICF (insulated concrete formwork) with tanking. Above ground the house uses a timber frame construction with 300mm I-beams in the roof. Because of the slightly unorthodox shape of the building U-Values for the walls are around 0.1W/m2K and for the roof are down to 0.09W/m2K, which enabled the house the achieve Passivhaus certification.
Visit Silverton Passivhaus at the UK Passivhaus Open Days taking place between 8-10 November 2013.
Silverton Passivhaus on the Passivhaus database
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3rd September 2013
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