Occupant Experience of Everyday Life in Some of the First Passive Houses in Denmark

Brunsgaard, Camilla; Knudstrup, Mary-Ann; Heiselberg, Per

doi:10.1080/14036096.2011.602718

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“…Motivations to develop low-energy housing can arise from customer demand (Ozorhon, 2013), as for some, having a well-designed house with low-energy features is an attractive quality (Brunsgaard et al, 2012), and for others can mean higher social prestige (Mlecnik, 2010). In a review of European low-energy housing projects, in nine out of 40 cases, design featured as a specific driver (Kivimaa and Martiskainen, 2018a), with aesthetics, desired space, flexibility and historical preservation playing a part.…”

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Role of knowledge and policies as drivers for low-energy housing: Case studies from the United Kingdom

Martiskainen

Kivimaa

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Role of knowledge and policies as drivers for low-energy housing: Case studies from the United Kingdom

Martiskainen

Kivimaa

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Around 9500 of these dwelling units are certified according to the PH standard (Passive House Institute, 2014a). User surveys were performed in numerous projects (Brunsgaard, Knudstrup, & Heiselberg, 2012;Hauge, Thomsen, & Berker, 2011;Mlecnik, 2013) and many buildings were equipped with measurement instrumentation to monitor energy consumption and thermal comfort under real-life conditions (Exner & Mahlknecht, 2012;Peper, Schnieders, & Feist, 2005;Ridley, Bere, Clarke, Schwartz, & Farr, 2014;Schnieders & Hermelink, 2006;Spörk-Dür, Wagner, Lechner, & Suschek-Berger, 2008). The results of these monitoring projects show that the predicted energy saving can be realized if planning and building are conducted according to the PH certification criteria (Feist, 2013).…”

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Applying the passive house concept to a social housing project in Austria – evaluation of the indoor environment based on long-term measurements and user surveys

Rojas

Wagner

Suschek-Berger

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Advances in Building Energy Research

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This work analyses the measured indoor environmental data collected during long-term monitoring of a social housing project built to the Passive House (PH) standard. The indoor temperature, CO 2 concentration and relative humidity levels were continuously logged in 18 of the 354 apartments. The volatile organic compound concentrations were also measured before the tenants moved in. Furthermore, a survey using questionnaires and interviews was performed to evaluate the occupants' satisfaction levels. For comparison, the indoor environment of six dwellings of a similarly constructed low-energy building, but without mechanical ventilation was also measured within this project. Within the Passive Housing, the average indoor temperature distribution during winter showed a surprisingly large difference compared to the low-energy housing and to other documented PH projects in Germany. Overheating during summer seemed to be an issue especially in the top-floor apartments. This re-emphasizes the need for proper shading solutions. The evaluation of the indoor air quality shows the need for controlled domestic ventilation for non-owneroccupied buildings. The combined assessment of measured data and survey results shows the importance of factoring in air humidity when defining ventilation rates. If no humidityraising measures are applied, air exchange rates well below 0.5 h −1 can be recommended for locations with cold and dry climates. In general, the satisfaction level within the presented social housing complex built to the PH standard was very high.

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“…unfortunately, the resilience of the systems can be low and produces problems with indoor climate and in the end a worse energy performance and loss of greenhouse gas mitigation, should climate change become severe. accessibility requirements might also lower flood resilience and make adaptations even harder to implement [14,15,21].…”

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The Historical Influence of Landscape, Ecology and Climate on Danish Low-rise Residential Architecture

Poulsen¹,

Lauring

2019

Int. J. DNE

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architecture has historically had to respond to landscape, ecology and climate. The paper investigates how this relationship has developed in Danish architecture, and how architecture of the future may develop during climate change. Through literature studies on the subject of Danish low-rise residential architecture and on climatic adaptation, it has been examined how late vernacular, modernistic, regional, modern and ecological/sustainable residences have responded to landscape and climate. Vernacular architectural designs were based on inter-generational knowledge of how to design according to the landscape and environment with materials locally available within communities. The connections with the landscape were intrinsic but were wholly anthropocentric by necessity. The 1920s' introduction of modernism and the International Style reduced the importance of local landscape and climate. Danish architects of the era started to incorporate architectural elements and colors from foreign climates, at the expense of lessons from the vernacular. The regional modernism in Denmark sought to reconcile a regional architecture with the functionality of modernism. This architecture was better suited to the local climate and connected with local materiality. The 1960s saw a demographic and housing boom, the consequence of which was hastily built 'cookie-cutter' housing and concrete apartment blocks that still dominate the housing stock. The oil crisis of the 1970s hit Denmark hard, enforcing energy savings on architecture, which over time developed to become reliant on passive solar strategies and thermal mass. The current Danish sustainable architecture has a primary focus on minimizing greenhouse gas emissions; the control of the indoor climate diminishes the connection to the exterior environment. Danish architecture must merge the vernacular understanding of climate and landscape with the mitigating properties of sustainable architecture. an embedding in the landscape and climate will reduce the impacts of climate change.

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Occupant Experience of Everyday Life in Some of the First Passive Houses in Denmark

Cited by 19 publications

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Role of knowledge and policies as drivers for low-energy housing: Case studies from the United Kingdom

Role of knowledge and policies as drivers for low-energy housing: Case studies from the United Kingdom

Applying the passive house concept to a social housing project in Austria – evaluation of the indoor environment based on long-term measurements and user surveys

The Historical Influence of Landscape, Ecology and Climate on Danish Low-rise Residential Architecture

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