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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: 047. Nice weather on the horizon
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Sunday, March 21, 2010. 047 Nice weather on the horizon. Preparations were made last week to be ready to install the house elements this coming week. So far, the weather forecast is promising. Thank you for your comment. It should appear here within 24 hours of posting. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 047 Nice weather on the horizon. 048 Assembling the house. Part I. 049 Assembling the house. Part II. 050 Assembling the house. Part III.
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: 045. Concrete foundation
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Sunday, January 17, 2010. The concrete foundation and retaining walls were completed before the winter holidays. Here are a couple of photos showing them at different parts of the process. Figure 37. Concrete foundation/shell. The black stuff is a bituminous paint. Thank you for your comment. It should appear here within 24 hours of posting. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 044 Wood wall elements at Hecht Holzbau. 046 Ready for the wood envelope.
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: 052. One year later...
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Thursday, March 3, 2011. 052 One year later. Figure 48. The corner seen in figure 47 as it looks now. The bamboo is temporary (long story) and will be relocated in a couple of months. Thank you for your comment. It should appear here within 24 hours of posting. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 052 One year later. The 2000 Watt society Wikipedia. Passive House Institute US.
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: April 2009
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Tuesday, April 28, 2009. 021 Calculation of our energy demand (Minergie-Nachweis). We received a copy of our Minergie-Nachweis. I'll start off by referring to these two old posts where I had talked about the Minergie limit on the weighted. Energy demand: The weighted energy demand. The weighted energy demand, part II. 183;a). So per year,. Is the amount of heat required to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature (usually taken to be 20°C) (ii) Q. 183;a)....
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: 039. Back to the heat pump
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Saturday, September 12, 2009. 039 Back to the heat pump. There was a misunderstanding somewhere and it appears that the overall cost for the district heating system would exceed that of the version with a heat pump. I still don't understand this clearly so I obviously cannot explain it. So, it's back to the air-source heat pump, though perhaps not the one by Heliotherm. 1] One such facility is in Switzerland → Wärmepumpen-Testzentrum WPZ. Thank you for your c...
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: 043. The 2009 Solar Decathlon winner is Team Germany
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Sunday, October 18, 2009. 043 The 2009 Solar Decathlon winner is Team Germany. Here is a description of the event from Wikipedia:. The international and biennial event is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Competing colleges and universities build solar powered homes and operate them on the National Mall for 3 weeks every other year. Link → Team Germany Homepage. January 10, 2010 at 5:42 PM.
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: 051. Assembling the house. Part IV.
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Friday, April 2, 2010. 051 Assembling the house. Part IV. Figure 47. The topping-off tree (Richtbäumli) was put up last week! By tradition, when the roof is finished, a little spruce decorated with ribbons is put up to mark this occasion. The roofing work is the most dangerous and trying part of the construction, so the completion of this is a significant achievement. Figure 48. The weatherproofing continues. 1] Link to the page about Majcoat.
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: February 2009
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Friday, February 27, 2009. Two things the label does not include. A couple of points that I think are important to note. - The label certification is based on the projected. Figure 2. Results of a survey of Minergie-certified residential units conducted by the University of St. Gallen in 2004. To make an extreme comparison, person A can have 300 m. To himself or herself while family B with 4 members can live in a 180 m. Thursday, February 26, 2009. A brief hi...
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: 041. The excavation
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Friday, October 16, 2009. Figure 31. The excavator operator checks his work against the plans from time to time. Figure 32. The trench for the sewer pipes has been dug. October 16, 2009 at 10:29 PM. Best wishes to your outdoor project. Weather will be ok for the next week. Http:/ meteo.sf.tv/sfmeteo/index.php. Let me know when they install the insulation under the baseplate. October 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM. Thank you for your good wishes!
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau: 040. Preparation of the construction site
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Building our Minergie-P 2009 house in Aargau. Thursday, October 15, 2009. 040 Preparation of the construction site. Figure 30. View from the south-west, looking at the excavator sitting on the north part of the land. A lot of things have happened over the last couple of months but I wanted to wait until the dust settled (so to speak) to do an update. It's high time for it now, as yesterday the ground preparation work started. Thank you for your comment. It should appear here within 24 hours of posting.