Welcome to the future... PASSIVHAUS AND BEYOND
Homes of the future will be different, some say radically different, to homes built today to deal with our need to reduce energy usage and carbon emissions. Take our heating systems: the government has already said that houses built after 2025 will not have combustion heating systems, which means no gas or oil-fired boilers. This leads to two major implications: heat pumps are highly likely to become the heat source of choice, and houses will need to be more thermally efficient than Building Regulations currently demand. So how should we approach this challenge?
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