FREE Green Open Homes house tour
Muswell Hill: Passive Haus standard self-build
Presented by: Muswell Hill Sustainability Group0 | LONDON: St James Lane (info) |
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P | Sunday 17th November, 2024 |
N | Door time: 12:00pm |
. | All ages |
C | Walking Tour |
Event information
A 50 minute tour and Q&A of a self build, designed to Passive Haus standards. And a great opportunity for both experiential and technical questions to be answered by both the homeowners and the architect, Joe Stuart who will be conducting the tour. Features include include:
• Wall insulation installed as continuous wrap-around 200mm thickness insulation, underneath floor-slab, around all walls and on roof
• Triple glazed windows, by Internorm
• Air tightness levels 0.15 AC/hour/m2, four times better than Passive house standards
• Mechanical Ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR), with Zehnder:
• - recovers up to 96% of the heat from extracted air
• - maintains a comfortable, healthy indoor climate all year round
• - air filtration system includes ‘NOx’ Filtration boxes for additional NO2 removal for clean filtered air quality
• External solar thermal blinds to prevent overheating in summer
Other features:
• Hot water: Sunamp heat battery with 300litres of hot water per charge;
• Space heating: low energy Infrared sheets, plastered into ceilings
• Main construction using Cross Laminated Timber (except basement is concrete)
• Interior finish is exposed birch and spruce timber
• Features still to be installed at time of writing: Solar PV panels, and living roof
• Interior using low toxic materials, low or VOC-free flooring (micro-cement) and paint (Earthborn) and oil (Osmo) for exposed timber
Main suppliers:
• Hot water, via heat battery, Sunamp: https://sunamp.com/en-gb/
• Ventilation: MVHR: https://www.zehnder.co.uk/en/indoor-ventilation/solutions/mechanical-ventilation-with-heat-recovery
• Space heating: via Infrared sheets. https://www.astectherm.com/
• Architect for planning: Alan Crawford and Partners
• Architect for detailed design and build: Warehome limited, Trinity Buoy Wharf, East London
• Cross laminated timber, sub-contractor: https://www.construktclt.com/
• Main contractor: R-Build, https://www.rbuild.ltd/
“We wanted a small, low-energy home, with healthy filtered air, with as many low-toxin materials as possible. The exposed timber on the ground floor is based on the ideas of biophilic design, i.e. if humans are surrounded by natural materials such as wood and plants this gives a feeling of calmness and tranquillity because you feel closer to nature.” Homeowners