Passive House Front Doors

This black beauty is one of my favourite projects from 2018 and it also featured in london open houses last september.

Passive house front doors.

Passive house from the german passivhaus is essentially a building in which you can maintain a pleasant temperature in winter as well as in the summer without a separate heating or air conditioning system. There are less than a handful of north american manufacturers of passive house doors so far. The passive house standard is performance based for the entire building not a checklist of components to purchase. In laymen terms that s an annual heating bill of 80 120.

Porto passive front door in painted black. Passive house components are an important development in this process due to their low energy features. Groke entry doors u factor range from 257 all the way down to an impressive 13 making them ideal for use as a passive house door. Passive house doors are mostly manufactured in europe.

The beautiful front door. Conventional doors provide modest levels of insulation but passive house doors can insulate almost as well as the wall of a conventional home. Exterior doors airtight superinsulated exterior doors prevent air leakage and heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer. Kohltech passive house windows and doors will ship with a passive house institute us certification label as shown in the sections below.

Vendors thank you for your contribution doors of distinction thanks to tim eian. Cal doors make the doors garth chose for his current project in poland and he ordered them through vetta building technologies in canada. What you can t tell from these images is that it is a certified passive haus the leading international low energy design standard. All groke door configurations meet european air leakage class 4 with the exception of double in swing doors which meet class 3 criteria still within the passive house performance requirements.

Passive house doors are not cheap. In general passive house construction elements tend to have a similar range of features and importantly are. The standard first originated in germany in 1988 and has now. A history of performance innotech windows doors was established at the turn of the century with the purpose of manufacturing german engineered windows and doors that reached beyond industry standards.

Passive house front door passive house close up. There is no such thing as a passive house door so to say but rather doors that offer the airtightness and insulation levels necessary. What is passive house. Choose from sustainably sourced spruce larch oak ash or walnut to complement your home while maintaining thermal efficiency thanks to the compound materials used.

Our passive house windows are manufactured in canada for north american passive house projects. Passive house passivhaus certified building standards the term passive house refers to a rigorous standard for energy efficiency in buildings.