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Greengauge Building Energy Consultants is a building & engineering consultancy specialising in sustainable, low energy design. Offices in Wiltshire & Yorkshire. https://ggbec.co.uk/

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Greengauge@greengaugebec.bsky.social · last wk.

🌧️ Climate resilience - not just about overheating... Predicted future weather patterns will also test the resilience of our buildings to wind-driven rain. Read Toby Cambray's blog on designing for uncertain futures. https://ggbec.co.uk/neverrainsbutitpours/ First appeared in Passive House Plus

In 2099, it never rains, but it pours

What might happen to our buildings if the AMOC shuts down? Climate scientists are increasingly concerned that a key Atlantic Ocean circulation may be on the cusp of shutting down - with a range of catastrophic impacts including much colder winters in the UK. What are the impacts for our buildings, asks Greengauge Director Toby Cambray. 

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Greengauge@greengaugebec.bsky.social · last mo.

😍 So good to see Passivhaus experience and knowledge growing in Scotland, demonstrating readiness for upcoming #ScottishPassivhausEquivalent policies. @passivpaul.bsky.social is Passivhaus Certifier & has visited the Caledonia High School project throughout construction.

Caledonia High School Delivered to Fife Council | BAM UK & Ireland posted on the topic | LinkedIn

The buildings we deliver today shape the communities of tomorrow. 🏫 Caledonia High School has officially been handed over to Fife Council and will welcome more than 1,700 pupils later this summer. Built to Passivhaus standards, the new school is expected to use around 75% less energy than a standard new-build UK school, creating a comfortable learning environment while helping reduce carbon emissions for years to come. Designed with flexible learning spaces, digital facilities and community use in mind, the school has been built to support future generations across west Fife. It is the second Passivhaus school BAM has delivered for Fife Council, following the success of Woodmill and St Columba's High School, which recorded more than £433,000 in energy savings during its first year of operation. We’re proud to have worked alongside Fife Council, Hub East Central Scotland and the Scottish Futures Trust to deliver another school that will make a lasting difference. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eK_nwhWb #MakingPossible #Education

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Greengauge@greengaugebec.bsky.social · last mo.

🔎 Upskill in Passivhaus & retrofit! Greengauge is offering the following CPDs for architects: 💠Passivhaus Certification: Top tips from a Certifier 💠Intro to Passivhaus 💠Achieving EnerPHit on heritage projects 💠EnerPHit Component route 💠Intro to moisture risk https://ggbec.co.uk/greengaugecpds/

Passivhaus & Retrofit CPDs - Greengauge

Greengauge is now offering online and in-person CPDs for architectural practices. CPDs are available on the following topics: Top tips for Passivhaus certification; Key principles of Passivhaus design; Achieving EnerPHit on heritage projects.

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Greengauge@greengaugebec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Imagine you could wave a magic wand and measure the thermal performance of a newly built (or newly retrofitted) house". Read Toby Cambray's latest blog on how SMETERS could help eliminate the 'performance gap'. https://ggbec.co.uk/are-smeters-the-answer/ First appeared in Passive House Plus

Are SMETERS the answer?

Greengauge Director Toby Cambray explores the science behind a European approach to managing moisture levels in homesWhile the German language gifts us wonderfully complex compound words, few are as practically valuable in buildings as Stoßlüften – literally "shock ventilation". This deceptively simple practice of opening windows wide for short periods, rather than leaving them cracked open continuously, represents a masterclass in applied building physics.

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Greengauge@greengaugebec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🏫 School decarbonisation retrofits are complex! Read Greengauge's Gerard Thacker's blog on how the beneficial inter-relationship between building services and building physics has helped deliver solutions for a school decarbonisation programme: https://ggbec.co.uk/symbiotic-problem-solving/

Symbiotic problem-solving

Gerard Thacker, Associate Director at Greengauge, shares his thoughts on the beneficial inter-relationship between building services and building physics.As a building services engineer who has undertaken Passivhaus training, Gerard sees more and more how the two disciplines can work well together when problem-solving for both new-build and retrofit projects.

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Greengauge@greengaugebec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🤔 Do your walls behave like a Jaffa Cake? One of Toby Cambray's most popular blog posts explaining hygroscopicity by means of the differences between biscuits & cakes! First featured in Passive House Plus. https://ggbec.co.uk/do-your-walls-behave-like-a-jaffa-cake/ #moisturerisk #retrofit

Do Your Walls Behave Like a Jaffa Cake? - Greengauge

The topic of VAT on retrofit is (for our UK readership) a point of significant concern, the disparity making it disproportionately costly to refurbish than to build new, setting up undesirable incentives (to knock down and re-build, with all the additional up-front carbon) and arbitrarily and unfairly penalising one type of building work over another. […]

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Greengauge@greengaugebec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌞 Visit Wild House 🌿 We're Passivhaus Certifiers - watch this space! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/doddington-hall-gardens_wilderdoddington-ourpowerourplanet-passivhauspremium-activity-7458118621592981504-_reY?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAASUzEsB_kmTt4k63Q3a3uwYkizVVhfJK4c

Introducing Wild House in Wilder Doddington England's First Passivhaus Premium Building | Doddington Hall & Gardens posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Something exciting has been building behind the scenes. Introducing the Wild House 🌿 Set in the heart of Wilder Doddington, this pioneering centre for learning, research, wellbeing and nature recovery is built to give back. The Wild House is set to become England’s first Passivhaus Premium building, pending certification. Designed to generate significantly more renewable energy than it consumes, it is a building with purpose, powered by nature 🍃 Offering an inspiring, purposeful setting away from the everyday, find out more about this sustainable space:...

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Greengauge@greengaugebec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🙌Shout-out for Passivhaus M&E space-saving wizardry 🪄 At a constrained Wiltshire Passivhaus infill development, our M&E team had to overcome space limitations to achieve Passivhaus requirements. https://ggbec.co.uk/portfolio/brewery-corner-devizes-mechanical-services/

Brewery Corner, Devizes - Mechanical Services - Greengauge

An infill development of nine highly insulated and airtight new build houses on a constrained brownfield site for a private developer in Devizes, Wiltshire. The Passivhaus standard was targeted and formal Passivhaus certification was achieved for the larger terrace of six houses to the north of the site. Greengauge was brought in to provide MEP Design for the project and provided some PHPP support in relation to building services.

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Greengauge@greengaugebec.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🙌 Airtightness champions Well done to all the team working on Fife Council Caledonia High School, on achieving an airtightness of 0.337 ACH @ 50Pa. @passivpaul.bsky.social is Passivhaus Certifier. https://www.ahr.co.uk/news/landmark-airtightness-result-achieved-at-caledonia-high-school

Caledonia High School sets new Passivhaus airtightness benchmark

Caledonia High School achieves 0.337 ACH, setting a new standard for low-energy, high-performance school design in Scotland.

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