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