Mark Siddall
@marksiddall.bsky.social
Architect @ http://LEAP4.it • Passivhaus Pioneer • Technical Advisor • Researcher • Educator • Dad • CO2 329.7 ppm
"fossil-fuel companies, and their adjacent organizations, are the primary lobbyists for #CCS subsidies and that these subsidies benefit fossil-fuel companies at the expense of both taxpayers and the future health of our planet" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🎓 Architecture students & lecturers — last chance! Bookings for our Certified Passivhaus Designer – Summer Edition close tomorrow at midnight. Online course | Starts June | Discounted pricing 🔗 STUDENTS coaction.org.uk/courses/stud... 🔗LECTURERS: coaction.org.uk/courses/lect... #Passivhaus
🔔 Next Alumni Webinar – This Thursday! 🔔 Join Sarah Lewis, PHT Research & Policy Director, as she shares how she’s transforming her 1950s home in Scotland towards EnerPHit, cutting heating demand by 90% while improving comfort & air quality. 📅 3rd April – Msg for details! 📩 #EnerPHit #Passivhaus
🎉 Huge congratulations to our first Certified Passivhaus Designer cohort of 2025—100% pass rate on their exam! 🔥👏 Welcome to the Passivhaus community! Can’t wait to see where your journey takes you. 🌍
Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
Have you undertaken training with us? 🙏 We have a free offer for our Alumni 🥇 1 CEPH/PHI point available for each live event 🏠 8 of our trainers will talk through 12 of the projects they have worked on #passivhaus #EnerPHit #deepretrofit 📆 We start on Thursday 27 Feb ✅ 45 min online webinars
‼️ 100% funding for retrofit course ‼️ 🙏 CITB employers network. ➡️ coaction.org.uk/courses/retr... 📆 time limited, so book early to take advantage. www.linkedin.com/posts/jon-da...
A #Passivhaus #selfbuild work of art! Read about the impressive #Denbighshire riverside home that doubles as an art gallery. www.passivhaustrust.... @marksiddall.bsky.social @kymmead.bsky.social
I’ve been publishing a magazine on how to make buildings sustainable since 2003. I’m terrible at social media - it doesn’t come naturally to me - but I have a few ideas that might help. First, we need to clearly define what we do and don’t mean by sustainable. Confusion erodes confidence. 1)
We need more Passivhaus Designers and Tradespeople. So pleased that another group of amazing people found success and passed their Passivhaus exam with flying colours.
Coaction Training CIC@coaction.bsky.social · 2y agoCongratulations to our Autumn cohorts on achieving brilliant results across the board! ✨ 100% Pass Rate for our Sept Certified Passivhaus Designer! ✨ 96% Pass Rate for Certified Passivhaus Tradesperson Welcome to our growing Passivhaus Community! We can't wait to see what you achieve next!🌍🏗️
If you’d like to know how you design buildings that close performance gaps and improve comfort why not come to the Thermal Bypass Workshop I’m delivering next week. www.greenregister.org.uk/events/event...
Question; Which physicist bass and singer player should I add to a this band: Piano: Brian Cox Guitar: Brian May Drums: Richard Feynman
Latest paper …It’s been a long time coming. “A review of the indoor air quality in residential Passive House dwellings” 50 days free access: authors.elsevier.com/c/1iUGB1M7zH...
Latest issue of @phplus.bsky.social mag seems to be particularly good. I won't summarise even if I could, just read it. passivehouseplus.co.uk/subscribe Passivhaus Extra care Carbon first, fabric second Cutting the crap about creative carbon accounting and don't skip the editor's letter.
According to Sotheby's Real Estate, the hot design trend of 2024 is comfort, and the superrich are looking for "comfort, ease, and quiet luxury." But research shows that you get true comfort from warm walls, good windows, and fresh air, which is what you get from #passivhaus.
The hot design trend of 2024: Comfort
The superrich apparently are looking for "comfort, ease, and quiet luxury." Passivhaus delivers.
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In a Christmas special of the Zero Ambitions podcast, we interview authors Lenny Antonelli and Andrew Simmonds about how Mass Timber is wonderful, but we have to use it carefully, thinking of simplicity, sufficiency, circularity and efficiency.
PH+ revisited: Seeing the wood for the trees, with Andy Simmonds (AECB) and Lenny Antonelli (PH+) | ...
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The first certified Passivhaus in Llangollen, Denbighshire. A Christmas present which has been along time coming for super clients. Thanks @Kym_Mead
Good to re-visit Stewart Brand's 'How buildings learn' What happens to buildings after they're built. Do architects care about people or do they only care about their 'art'? www.youtube.com/watch?v=maTk...
How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand 1 of 6 “Flow”
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…diving into my Time Machine this evening …what field tests and laboratory research has been done on foam insulation: 1) dimensional stability/shrinkage over time 2) impact of joint types upon heat loss If you know of research on this then give me pointers. Ta!
