Low Energy Buildings Database

Building Services Design Office

The Building Services Design Head Office in Kettering is the first commercial building in Northamptonshire to acheive the Passivhaus standard. It has a timber frame with extremely high performing wall insulation, cavity and brick with rendered blockwork and cedar cladding for external treatment. It has glazed windows providing high thermal and solar properties, in addition to cross flow natural ventilation, with the potential to capture cool air at night for passive office cooling.

Construction type	-	Project type	New build
Property type	Detached	Sector	Commercial
Location	Ketterting Northamptonshire	Project owner	-
	Passivhaus certified building

Burnham Overy Staithe

Three Passivhaus affordable homes built within the North Norfolk AONB, reflecting the local vernacular of traditional fishermens cottages. An award winning project in the Architectural Design category at the 2014 UK Passivhaus Awards.

Construction type	Solid Brick	Project type	New build
Property type	Semi-Detached	Sector	Public Residential
Location	Swaffham Norfolk	Project owner	Parsons + Whittley
	Passivhaus certified building

Burry Port School, Carmarthenshire.

Conceived by the client, Carmarthenshire County Council, the pioneering scheme for Burry Port Community Primary School, brings together the towns once separate infant and junior schools on one central site, in a design that celebrates Welsh materials and embraces innovation.Set over three principal buildings, the project is a mix of refurbishment and new-build. The prominent new-build aspects include the first Passivhaus school building in Wales, as well as a separate, Brettstapel constructed elliptical pod for multi-use purposes, which unites the new and old elements of the school.In line with Passivhaus requirements, new junior years building is wrapped in continuous air-tight layer from the foundations-up. The elliptical pod building, constructed using the Brettstapel method, is one of the first examples of Brettstapel construction being used in the education sector in the UK. The technique makes use of Wales abundance of low-grade softwood, Douglas Fir and Sitka Spruce.

Construction type	Softwood frame	Project type	Mixed
Property type	Detached	Sector	Public
Location	Burry Port Carmarthenshire	Project owner	-
	Passivhaus certified building

Burwash

This is an affordable Passivhaus housing development built in Burwash, East Sussex. Passivhaus is the common-sense approach to delivering well-designed, green and energy efficient homes, which particularly benefits rural areas where fuel poverty is significant. This development includes eight units ranging from one to three bedroom flats, bungalows and houses at both affordable rent and for shared ownership.

Construction type	-	Project type	New build
Property type	Mid Terrace	Sector	Public Residential
Location	Burwash East Sussex	Project owner	-
	Passivhaus certified building

Cae Gliesion

Architects Pentan Partnership completed two Passivhaus homes for Hendre Housing Association - in partnership with contractors Holbrook Construction and BRE Wales. The brief was to design a pair of 3-bedroom, semi-detached homes that were not recognisably different in their overall appearance from the neighbouring houses

Construction type	Other	Project type	New build
Property type	Semi-Detached	Sector	Public
Location	Bridgend Bridgend	Project owner	Hendre Housing Association
	Passivhaus certified building

Caerphilly Magistrates Court

Social Housing

Construction type	-	Project type	New build
Property type	Detached	Sector	Private Residential
Location	Caerphilly Caerphilly	Project owner	-
	Passivhaus certified building

Caister-on-Sea

A pair of 2-bed semi-detached houses in Caister, Norfolk, built using the patented Beattie Passive build system, have been Passivhaus certified. They are part of a 12 home development currently underway across three council housing estate sites in Great Yarmouth which are being built as in-fill developments to provide much needed housing.

Construction type	-	Project type	-
Property type	Semi-Detached	Sector	Public Residential
Location	Great Yarmouth Norfolk	Project owner	-
	Passivhaus certified building

Cameron Close, Freshwater, Isle of Wight.

Cameron Close is a Passivhaus development in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. The development is made up entirely of affordable units, including 16 houses and 12 sheltered apartments on a 1.5 acre site. The development for Southern Housing Group aims to provide homes that are low on energy consumption yet comfortable and healthy for the residents to live in.The site plan creates attractive streets and public spaces and the homes are carefully orientated to provide a feeling of security whilst maintaining privacy.All the houses have front and back gardens and the apartments have generous, landscaped kitchen gardens to ensure plenty of private amenity space. The varying size of the houses and the flexibility of their plan will encourage a sustainable, cohesive community.Supplementary funding to achieve the Passivhaus standard was provided by Isle of Wight Council as part of their goal to become the most sustainable local authority in the UK by 2020.

Construction type	-	Project type	New build
Property type	Semi-Detached	Sector	Public Residential
Location	Freshwater Isle of Wight	Project owner	-
	Passivhaus certified building