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The Passive House standard
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and a comfortable temperature maintained year-round.
Passive House is a rigorous, proven and effective method of designing and building, resulting in highly energy-efficient and healthy buildings.
Celebrating its 30th birthday internationally, Passive House is a relatively new concept in New Zealand with the first Passive House being certified in 2012, and the market up until now has been small.
The key features of a Passive House building include excellent air quality, minimal use of energy required for heating and cooling,
There are now 37 certified Passive House buildings in Aotearoa NZ. However, with the projects under construction and in the planning
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stages currently, this is on track to double in the next year and continuing to rise fast. More than ever, we are aware of climate change and the role we can play as consumers in mitigating for this. Certified Passive House buildings maintain optimum comfort in all the varied climates of Aotearoa NZ while only requiring 8-20 percent of the heating energy a building built to the
current Building Code would require to maintain similar conditions. The occupants of a home built to Passive House standard will enjoy a high level of comfort and wellbeing in a healthy building, and will need to use only a small amount of energy to keep their home warm and dry in the winter and fresh and cool in the summer. Passive House Institute New Zealand, Te Tōpūtanga o te Whare Korou ki
