I’m involved in some very challenging #Passivhaus projects at the moment, and I’ve been thinking about how much easier the whole process would be once everyone in the design team has a bit of experience. Currently crazy amounts of time are spent getting data and evidence.
Sep 13, 2021 • 691 tweets • >60 min read
This is not to say all we need to do is electrify transport and build renewables, we should also be looking to radically reduce car ownership and miles driven, and to radically increase miles by 🚲 🛴 🚶♂️🚃 🚊 and 🚌.
Nails arriving tomorrow so time for a bit of cleaning before putting the floorboards down. Not much use in having the low-dust house (airtight and filtered fresh air through the MVHR) if there’s a load of dust right under the floorboards! #Passivhaus#EnerPHit
Sep 3, 2021 • 54 tweets • 36 min read
I'm in the middle (well, actually still close to the beginning! 🤣😬) of an #EnerPHit#Retrofit of a 1970s timber frame 🏠 in the W Highlands of 🏴. I've decided to tweet this as one long (hopefully ~1yr from now) thread. Buckle up for the ride! #TimberFrameRetrofit#Passivhaus
Some background and more detail here: highlandpassive.com/index.php/home…
Some previous threads, before I decided to turn this into one continuous thread, here:
Yesterday @scotgov announced a target of 75% reduction in GHG emissions by 2030, and the Highlands have even more ambitious targets under discussion of net zero by 2025. Fantastic, but we need focus on #EnergyEfficiency as well as #renewables.
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