The term passive house or passivhaus is a building standard which is world’s best practice for energy efficient buildings. Energy use is as low as 10% of the power used by conventional buildings. Passive house is:

• A complex ecosystem
• Minimising energy use
• Responding to different climate zones
• Based on building engineering principles
• And exact physics
• Devised by Dr Wolfgang Feist (Germany) and Professor Bo Adamson (Sweden) in the 1990’s
• Tested on tens of thousands of houses throughout the world.

Passive house is designed to:

• Keep comfortable temperatures consistently
• Refresh air constantly
• Dramatically reduce heating and cooling requirements
• Lower our energy use, and
• Reduce our power bills.

The building physics calculations are meticulous

The results are verified in houses worldwide over and over

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Superpod^® performance

(low energy – sustainability)

At Superpod^® we believe that you can’t start talking about sustainability until you deal with the performance of the building envelope – the shell. Superpod^® is based on the international passive house standard, which requires these elements as part of the building technology:

• Extremely high performing and continuous insulation in walls and roof
• Extremely high performing windows
• Reduced thermal bridges so that heat and cold can’t travel in and out of the house
• A well sealed building
• An air ventilation system for constant fresh air and comfortable temperatures all year round
• External shades in some climates

Remember – with passive house, you start with the engineered design. Then you build according to the design! With careful construction details applied and verified, you will get a passive house!

And one more thing – Why is Passive House different from other sorts of eco or passive solar houses? Because every part of the building is measured, and performance tests are required after construction.

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Exact measurements + maths and physics = true performance

2 + 2 = 4