Any built a Paasive house?

annmarie22

Hi all,

I am very interested in a zero bills paasive house. When I purchased my current house I was very interested in purchasing a zero bills house that was part of a development being built in my area. Unfortunately they never ended up being built due to wildlife on the land. I have recently started looking into it again and would love to start planning to build my own however I have no idea where to start. Has anyone built there own? or followed a blog they can send me in the direction of? I would like it to be a prefab house, are they always prefab? why do we not built many prefab houses in the UK? my small amount of research so far suggests its a great idea?

Doozergirl

We will be building a passive house next year. I've designed it using the principals of passive house and having energy consultants run it through the Passive House Planning Package. I will manage the build.

There is a book called 'the housebuilders bible' by Mark Brinkley which is really good for a layperson. The last version I purchased features a passive house.

There is also the 'Passivhaus Handbook' which I have read from cover to cover. I bought the kindle version but wish I'd bought a physical copy.

There are several companies out there that will make a prefab Passive House for you. Potton have a brand new showhome which is just being opened in Cambridgeshire. I think homework is required. And a plot!

The pre-fab houses are expensive and will be more expensive with the drop in the pound.

agrinnall

annmarie22 wrote: »

why do we not built many prefab houses in the UK?

This was part of a discussion on house building that I took part in at a meeting recently that included the local council's Cabinet Member for Housing and Homes. While it was felt that prefabricated housing is a good idea and worthy of further exploration for future building projects there are two factors that count against it in the UK. The first is the stigma of the word 'prefabriacted' or 'prefab', which is highly associated with homes built after the second world war, not to a particularly high standard, and not well regarded (even though some are still in occupation 70 years later). The second is that in many parts of the country the cost of building isn't the biggest issue, it's the cost and availability of land on which to put them.