Passive Design

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Mar 4, 2024 9:32 AM
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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_solar_building_design)

  • Solar heating
Passive Solar Design Retrofits — PSCI

Learn more about efficient ways to retrofit your house and reduce your energy costs.

Passive Solar Design Retrofits — PSCI
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  • Daylight capture
Daylighting - NZEB

Daylighting is a building design strategy to use light from sun. Presence of natural light in an occupied space brings a sense of wellbeing, increases awareness of one’s surrounding and also increases energy saving potential with reduced dependence on artificial light. Appropriate use of windows, skylights, clerestories, and other apertures in the building provide means to harvest daylight.

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  • Natural ventilation
  • Natural ventilation of buildings

    Natural ventilation of buildings - Designing Buildings - Share your construction industry knowledge. Ventilation is necessary in buildings to remove ‘stale’ air and replace it with ‘fresh’ air:

    Natural ventilation of buildings
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  • Insulation