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This training is run by Passive House Association Ireland and is targeted at Architects and Architectural Technologists, Building Energy Assessors, Engineers, Building Surveyors, Local Authority staff, contractors and developers.
3.5 CPD points
Programme
Module 1
nZEB requirements for Domestic and Non-Domestic Buildings.
Overview of the nearly Zero Energy Building Standard and what this entails for both domestic and non-domestic buildings:
- Irish and European Legislative background
- Building Fabric Heat Loss (insulation, thermal bridging, windows and airtightness)
- Building Services (mechanical ventilation and domestic hot water)
- Renewable Energy Production
- Energy Performance Coefficient (EPC) and Carbon Performance Coefficient (CPC)
- Energy performance calculations and design modelling: DEAP & NEAP
Module 2
Overview of the Passive House Standard: using an established standard as a route to nZEB.
- Passive House standard: history, certification criteria and energy balance
- Ensuring comfort through Passive House (whole-year even temperatures, warm winter surfaces, no summer overheating, draft-free)
- Ensuring healthy interior (mould free, condensation free, high indoor air quality, low noise pollution)
- Quality of construction detailing, execution and commissioning
- Primary energy thresholds, including renewable energy technology
- Energy performance calculations using PHPP and key differences to the DEAP.
Module 3
Case study of fast-track affordable social housing built to dual certification according to nZEB and Passive House:
- Semi-detached dwelling project overview (envelope, mechanical systems, renewable energy systems)
- The ‘Seven Steps to nZEB’
- Cost optimisation – delivering superior quality at cost parity
- Overlap and divergence of nZEB and Passive House.
