Issue overview

News

• The latest innovative products, policy & market developments affecting the sustainable building sector - including some jaw-dropping exclusives

Comment

• Jonathan Hines, Architype: is passive house a better standard than BREEAM or the Code for Sustainable homes?
• Nick Grant, Passivhaus Trust: what it means to claim a building is a passive house
• Lucy Pedler, The Green Register: how to get green detailing right in refurbishments

International buildings

• What do an igloo and a bare timber passive house have in common? They both made the cut for a selection of groundbreaking green buildings by Sofie Pelsmakers, co-founder, Architecture for Change & author of the Environmental Design Pocketbook

In depth case studies

• Plummerswood certified passive house, the Scottish Borders - Gaia Group
• The GreenBase Community Centre, Lancashire - Simmonds Mills
• A1 rated passive house, Co Wexford - Winkens Architecture
• Wicklow house a passive near miss when builder goes bust - Fitzpatrick & Mays Architects
• Mayville Community Centre passive house retrofit, Islington - bere: architects
• Ireland's first Enerphit upgrade, Co Dublin - Joseph Little Architects

Investigative articles

• The impact of climate change on passive house
• Why we need to drastically upgrade our ambitions on retrofits

Glossary

• Keep up to speed with all of the key sustainable building terminology with our easy to follow glossary