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News Release from: Saint-Gobain Isover UK | Subject: Guide to planning and realising the Multi-Comfort
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 April 2008
Isover helps with energy levels
Isover's new guide to planning and realising the Multi-Comfort building of the future.
Space and hot water heating accounts for almost 90% of a household's energy costs but coincidentally 90% of that could be saved if the home was insulated to Passive House standards, according to Saint-Gobain Isover UK Data in Isover's new guide to planning and realising the Multi-Comfort building of the future shows the energy demands of a typical one-family house can be as low as 15kWh/ma for a very low energy home while its CO2 emissions can be just 2kg/ma
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 24 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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At the other end of the spectrum, the energy demands for a home with completely insufficient thermal insulation can be as high as 300kWh/ma with CO2 emissions of 60kg/ma.
A home like this could use as much as 30 litres of heating oil per m of living space per year.
In between, a low-energy home could have energy demands of 40kWh/ma and CO2 emissions of 10kg/ma while a home with just insufficient thermal insulation (typically those built in the 1950s and 60s but ripe for renovation) up to 150kWh/ma with CO2 emissions of 30kg/ma.
Optimum building location and positioning of windows and doors as well as very high levels of insulation and a tight building envelope all help to reduce the energy consumption of a standard house built to current Building Regulations from 8euro/m per year to 1euro/m for a Multi-Comfort House.
"Built for the future - The Isover Multi-Comfort House" discusses the concept, advises on how to design and plan to it, and shows case studies of new-build and refurbished houses, apartments, offices and schools.
It also details the sustainability of mineral glass wool insulation and is available from Isoverpr@saint-gobain.com.
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