If you design and build or modernise a house in compliance with passive housing standards, you can pay for heating as little as 0,5 EUR per square meter per year. At Budma 2010 fair you will have a chance to plunge into the arcana of construction with the use of this increasingly popular, eco-friendly and cost-effective technology.
All year round, a passive house ensures proper indoor climate, resulting from the perceived thermal comfort and optimum ventilation following continuing supply of fresh air. Virtually any building, either new or modernised, can be now constructed in this standard, namely single-family and multi-family houses, council housing, office buildings, commercial facilities, hotels, schools, sports halls, swimming pools and industrial facilities.
In passive houses, heat losses are reduced to such a degree that passive energy sources, such as solar energy permeating through windows and heat generated by inhabitants or being a side effect of the operation of household appliances, suffice to compensate for these losses. Only when it is freezing outside, additional supplementary heating is used: usually with warmed air supplied by the ventilation system. Contrary to what you may think, construction of a passive house is not much more expensive than in the case of a traditional one. According to the Polish Passive House Institute, passive housing is at present about 5-7 % more expensive in Western Europe. In Poland, additional costs are estimated at a level of 10-15 per cent.
Advantages of houses built in accordance with sustainable construction guidelines will be presented at Budma as part of a special exposition of companies offering passive construction materials and solutions (Pavilion 15) and during the two-day series of seminars and presentations: International Knowledge Transfer Conference - Passive construction from A to Z. At the conference, successfully completed passive house projects from different European countries will be presented. The first day of the forum (20 January) is addressed to representatives of marshall's offices, province governor offices, local authorities of towns and communities, as well as universities and investors. The second day of the forum (21 January) is open for architects, designers, civil and environment engineers, housing developers, contractors, building control inspectors, real estate administrators, representatives of Social Housing Associations, thermal modernisation auditors and manufacturers of materials and components for passive construction. "Passive Construction"
Project is organised by Międzynarodowe Targi Poznańskie in collaboration with the Polish Passive House Institute.
