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The article shows off snazzy housing for wealthy people, but as far as I know all new housing finished in the EU as of 2021 is supposed to be built to these sta
by morsch 5y ago
The article shows off snazzy housing for wealthy people, but as far as I know all new housing finished in the EU as of 2021 is supposed to be built to these standards. So it's not restricted to architecture magazine, it's just regular houses.
See e.g. https://www.igbc.ie/nzeb/ https://www.igbc.ie/nzeb/
- jve 5y agoActually, article complains that Building Code is pretty low standard in NZ and that non-wealthy suffers as they live in not-so-well insulated houses. But speaking from northern EU country - yeah, I don't see anyone here building non-insulated houses.
- rsynnott 5y agonZEB isn't quite the same thing as a passive house; a well-built passive house would qualify as an nZEB, but you could for instance, build an nZEB that had reasonably high thermal losses (thus not a passive house) which it compensates for with loads of solar panels. That said, in practice most nZEBs probably will be passive houses or close; it's probably the most practical way to meet the requirements in most cases.