Passivhaus & enerphit projects

Sheepridge Passivhaus: A Passivhaus Self-build home fit for an Architect

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Architect Jane Simpson has known Green Building Store’s founding director Bill Butcher for 29 years. So, a few years ago, when she and her husband, Paul Niven, decided to self-build …

14th July 2023

Passivhaus barn conversion

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An agricultural farm building converted into a Passivhaus certified home through ‘box within a box’ timber frame construction inside the existing building.

20th April 2022

Passivhaus selfbuild, Herefordshire

PROGRESSION windows and ULTRA Lift & Slide door at Passivhaus selfbuild Herefordshire

A Passivhaus corrugated metal-clad 3 bed ‘upside-down’ house has been designed by Architect-clients and features PROGRESSION windows, ULTRA doors and an MVHR system from Green Building Store.

1st March 2022

Shepherds Barn EnerPHit Plus

Shepherds Barn EnerPHit Credit Mark Siddall

Retrofit barn conversion, to the EnerPHit (Passivhaus retrofit) standard, which achieved an airtightness result of 0.18 ACH @50Pa and involved constructing a timber frame structure inside the original barn building.

8th January 2022

Reform Cottage EnerPHit, Herefordshire

Reform Cottage EnerPHit with ULTRA triple glazed windows and doors

Retrofit Consultant Gervase Mangwana has undertaken a retrofit to the EnerPHit (Passivhaus retrofit) standard on his own home in Herefordshire.

5th October 2021

Halifax Passivhaus, West Yorkshire

Halifax Passivhaus West Yorkshire

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,

7th July 2021

Treetops Passivhaus, Forest of Dean

ULTRA triple glazed timber windows and doors at Tree Tops Passivhaus selfbuild project

Newbuild Passivhaus timber frame home, designed and built by Passiframe to a tight budget. Green Building Store supplied the ULTRA triple glazed windows and doors for the project.

6th May 2021

‘Woodlands’ oak frame Passivhaus B&B, Malvern

ULTRA triple glazed windows and Lift and Slide doors at Woodlands Passivhaus B&B. Photo: Mark Bolton Photography

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.

1st April 2021

Oxford EnerPHit Plus

PROGRESSION Passivhaus certified windows at Oxford EnerPHit Plus Project

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.

2nd February 2021

The Woodhouse – Presteigne Passivhaus newbuild

PROGRESSION Passivhaus certified timber windows at the Woodhouse - Presteigne Passivhaus newbuild

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.

29th November 2020

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