In the UK, the British Standard has a blanket statement requiring fume stacks be either 3m high or 25% the building height – whichever is greater.
This is not a complete design solution but can quickly generate a working feasibility model so clients can make highly informed decisions in days or weeks and at a fraction of the cost of a non ‘reference design’ approach.Clients can even take a virtual tour to aid their insight, feedback and input.
The design and procurement stages that follow can then also be compressed through focusing time and effort only on the bespoke elements of the largely standardised design.This approach has been enormously powerful for our clients: the ability to rapidly assess the viability of sites has saved months of uncertainty and prevented the inefficiency of wasted work.. Configuring Reference Design.The rule and data-led thinking that defines Chips and how they can fit together in a design e.g.
scale, adjacency, proximity etc.lends itself to the use of Configurators, which can be designed by our.
Creative Technologies.
team, to automate the design process..From an operational carbon perspective, Passivhaus’ low energy targets mean the dwellings are likely to achieve very low carbon emissions.
As a result, it becomes technically and financially feasible to offset any carbon emission through the use of building mounted, renewable technologies.This means that for certain types of residential buildings, it is possible to achieve net zero operational carbon without the need for a PPA.
For non-residential buildings however a PPA is still necessary.Due to low energy demand, any price increases associated with PPA or offsetting, achieving net zero carbon becomes affordable..
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