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The world’s first ‘zero energy’ house Returning to his regular series on the evolution of sustainable building during the 20th century, Dr Marc Ó Riain takes a look at the first serious attempt to build a house with net zero energy use. This article was originally published in issue 35 of Passive House Plus magazine. Want immediate access to all back issues and exclusive extra content? Click here to subscribe for as little as €10, or click here to receive the next issue free of charge During the 1973-74 oil crisis Denmark, which was massively impacted by the quadrupling of e...

Sea change — luxury passive scheme on the Devon coast Built mostly with clay blocks and sited above the sandy shores of Seaton, on the Devon coast, this new development of eight high-end apartments not only meets the passive house ‘plus’ standard — meaning it pairs the requisite ultra-low energy fabric with a substantial amount of renewable energy generation — but it also boasts serious attention to the use of ecological and healthy material. *One apartment, based on 10 months monitored data Building: Five-storey block of eight luxury apartments, 101 m2 to 138 m2 each Lo...

It’s the first commercial building in Singapore to be awarded as such. Keppel Bay Tower, owned and operated by Keppel Land, has been certified as a Green Mark Platinum (Zero Energy) building by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA). It is the first commercial building in Singapore to be awarded as such. “A Green Mark Platinum (Zero Energy) building must, in addition to achieving a low energy use index of less than 115 kWh/m2 per year, also have all of its energy consumption, including plug load, supplied from renewable sources, both on-site and off-site,” said Keppel in a media ...