A hands-on DIY deep retrofit was recently highlighted in Episode 3 of ITV’s series ‘Save Money: My Beautiful Green Home’ and featured triple glazed windows & doors and MVHR from Green Building Store.
Retrofit Consultant Gervase Mangwana has undertaken a retrofit to the EnerPHit (Passivhaus retrofit) standard on his own home in Herefordshire.
A selfbuild Passivhaus project in Halifax West Yorkshire, built to a tight budget of £1850/m2. One of the first certified Passivhaus projects in the Calderdale area,
Passivhaus certified oak frame newbuild home, designed by oak frame specialists Oakwrights, in rural Worcestershire. As a B&B, the house will offer visitors a unique chance to experience living in a Passivhaus first hand.
The radical retrofit of an Oxford 1930s semi-detached house, which has aimed to radically reduce carbon emissions of the house in line with a 1.5 degree global warming limit, is among the first EnerPHit Plus projects in the UK.
Wheelchair-accessible, low energy newbuild home designed by Accessible Design and Passivhaus Consultant Phil Newbold. Green Building Store supplied PROGRESSION windows and doors, MVHR heat recovery ventilation and PHPP Passivhaus modelling services for the project.
A timber-framed newbuild home in Powys, designed to the Passivhaus standard and achieving an airtightness of 0.12 ach @ 50 PA. The basic airtight shell is estimated to have build costs of £1200/m2.
A self-build house, designed using Passivhaus Planning Package (PHPP) software by Simmonds Mills architects and built by Ecovert Solutions. Green Building Store supplied the ULTRA triple glazed windows and doors and MVHR heat recovery ventilation system for the project.
Selfbuild project inspired by the Golcar Passivhaus project and designed using PHPP (Passivhaus Planning Package software). Green Building Store supplied consultancy services and windows & doors, MVHR ventilation and airtightness products.
An unassuming detached house in Chorley Lancashire has been transformed steadily over 4+ years into an eco exemplar retrofit project, thanks to the steady DIY efforts of its occupants.