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Ireland's largest #passivehouse development, Shanganagh Castle, is proof that with proper planning and collaboration, delivering high density #housing doesn’t mean compromising on quality or #climateaction – without increasing costs or causing delays. - mailchi.mp/passivehouse...
Picture shows the forefront of the almost finished Shanganagh apartment complex in Dublin.
December 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Energy poverty and electric heating - The Thursday long read

As electricity decarbonises, the case for switching from #fossilfuel boilers to efficient electricity to heat via #heatpumps is overwhelming. But could a drive to electrify heating exacerbate energy poverty?

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Graphic map of Europe depicting regions of energy poverty
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Energy poverty and electric heating - The Thursday long read

As electricity decarbonises, the case for switching from #fossilfuel boilers to efficient electricity to heat via #heatpumps is overwhelming. But could a drive to electrify heating exacerbate energy poverty?

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Graphic map of Europe depicting regions of energy poverty
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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The Thursday long read - Casa Cuatro

Perched on a dramatic hillside overlooking Lake Nahuel Huapi in Argentina’s breathtaking Patagonia, Casa Cuatro stands as a testament to the enduring belief of two Glasgow-based passive house designers.

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#passivehouse #passivhaus
Picture of the roof of a passive house, overlooking Lake Nahuel Huapi
December 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New issue out now! -
Always worth waiting for, issue 51 of Passive House Plus is at the printers, but subscribers can read the digital version online now!

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Images show to two magazine covers, one is in the interior of a living room, the other shows two people in a kitchen
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The Thursday long read -
A deep dip into the #PassiveHousePlus archive this week, to 2017 when Lenny Antonelli wrote for us about a large #familyhome in South Dublin that proved big homes don't need to be cold and draughty.

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#passivehouse #passivhaus
Picture of a detached passive house in Dublin, Ireland.
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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The PH+ guide to greener concrete - reducing the #climateimpact of cement and concrete in buildings - mailchi.mp/passivehouse...

#carbonemissions #passivehouse #passivhaus
Picture shows concrete blocks manufactured using ‘carbon negative’ aggregate from O.C.O Technology Ltd.
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Worcester school hall is UK's first 'multi-comfort' building - The Thursday long read mailchi.mp/passivehouse...
#passivehouse #passivhaus
Picture shows blurry images of children playing in a new school hall
October 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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To 2015 and issue 10 of Passive House Plus for your long read, when work had just finished on architect Paul McNally's super low energy project: a three-storey building in Tipperary that had just become Ireland's first certified #passivehouse pharmacy.

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Picture shows the front facade of a pharmacy in Ireland, the first there to be built to the passive house standard
September 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Simple-yet-stylish West Berkshire #passivehouse that bore a business

This week, a #timberframe home that met the passive house standard, launched a brand new design-and-build venture & embraced an elegant design while drawing inspiration from the local vernacular.

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Picture taken at dusk of a timber frame Passive House, built in West Berkshire
September 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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A longtime contributor to Passive House Plus, Peter Rickaby looks back on an extraordinary career, the challenge of convincing people of the need for a new approach to buildings, and the people who helped him to do just that.

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#passivehouse
Picture shows Dr Peter Rickaby who has over thirty-five years of experience as an energy and sustainability consultant working for the building and housing industries
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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A tight budget meant some ambitious eco features planned for this simple and graceful new farmhouse were dropped, yet it still managed to meet Irish nZEB standards thanks to a combination of superb detailing and fabric-first design.

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#passivehouse
Photo shows a new farmhouse in a countryside setting, built to the nearly zero energy building standard
August 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Flat earth - Tenement #retrofit shows solution for Glasgow archetype

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#passivehouse #passivaus #enerphit
Picture is a street level view of a newly restored tenement building in Glasgow
August 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Scottish isle eco cottages need no central heating -

Two spectacular #lowenergy #socialhousing units look out over Ulva Ferry’s breath-taking views & prove to be a superb response to local problems of #fuelpoverty and lack of #affordablefamilyhousing.

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Photograph shows two timber passive houses side by side, overlooking the bay at Ulva Ferry in Scotland
July 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Treat for Friday night PHP subscribers, the new issue has just been published online! Enjoy the commute ;)

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July 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Mike Eliason, founder of Larch Lab & author of Building for People, reflects how events from the pandemic & #climate disasters to #urbanhousing challenges – shaped his mission to bring #sustainable, community-focused, and #climateadaptive living to the US
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Picture shows a people-first street in Vienna’s Seestadt. Plenty of bikes and no cars.
June 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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One of the biggest threats in the air we breathe comes from something we are exposed to almost every day, but rarely think about: #cooking.
In i33 of #passivehouse plus we reported on the evidence for how cooking affects #indoorairquality, and what we can do about it.

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Picture shows a chef holding a cooking pot, while wearing a gas mask, to highlight the health risks from indoor air quality in a kitchen
June 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Sobering reading here “Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief” @phplus.bsky.social @passivehouseie.bsky.social @passivhaustrust.bsky.social
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Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief
A “collapse” of key Atlantic ocean currents would cause winter temperatures to plunge across northern Europe, overriding the warming driven by human activity.
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June 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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My starter pack for #PassiveHouse powerhouses and pioneers on BluSky. Waiting for more to join!

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March 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Slope and Glory -

Architect Tony Godwin wandered into #passivehouse seminar #Ecobuild to start a journey that would see him design his own passive home on a sloping site — achieving a comfortable, ultra-low energy family home with tiny #energybills
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Exterior of a comfortable, ultra-low energy family home at night
June 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The finance sector must get serious about green homes — and fast.

Tomorrow (28 May), the Smarter Finance for EU consortium is hosting a key conference in Madrid on finance + certified green homes.

The event is being recorded.

Click here to request access:
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Banking on green homes - Madrid event
Come meet the Smarter Finance for EU team at our conference in Madrid on Wednesday, 28 May.
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May 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Traditional Irish cottage looks to the future - This week we look back at a cottage in the west of Ireland that, despite some stop-start beginnings, delivered a traditional-but-stylish design with close-to-#passivehouse performance.

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Picture of a cottage in the west of Ireland, that's been beautifully retrofitted
May 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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The High Court has granted me leave to challenge the permission to demolish and replace the Deer Park Hotel.

Much of our building stock is destroyed and replaced with new resources. The planet cannot afford such waste. Demolition can be justified; ABP needs to make sure it is. davidhealy.com?p=1834
Leave granted for a Judicial Review of the permission for demolition of Deer Park Hotel. | David Healy
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May 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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19th century home drops #energydemand by 94%

This ambitious #A1 #retrofit of a Dublin redbrick exceeded the #NZEB standard - a beautifully-detailed blueprint for delivering warmth, comfort, and healthy indoor air in historic city centre properties - t.co/U7pST7dJSm
Exterior shot of a red brick terraced single storey home in Dublin
May 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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“[...] Different studies have shown again and again how important it is to maintain good indoor air quality and a good environment in schools, and it is a matter of social justice as well, [...]” - Chryssa Thoua, in: issue 36, Passive House Plus magazine (2021)
#IAQ #CleanAir
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We couldn’t agree more Michelle. Here’s a piece on indoor air quality in classrooms that we published during the pandemic, which compares monitoring results of a typical school, an early eco school with natural ventilation and two certified passive schools:

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Breathing room - why it's time to get serious about ventilation - passivehouseplus.ie
It's time to get serious about classroom ventilation
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May 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM