{"id":4776,"date":"2020-05-03T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2020-05-03T20:18:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T19:18:21","slug":"phi-low-energy-building-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4776","title":{"rendered":"PHI Low Energy Building Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although the Design-stage certification was to the Passivhaus standard, the best post-build air tightness test result only gave a reading of 0.9 which is not sufficient for the full Passivhaus certification (which must be 0.6 or lower). In principle it&#8217;s still possible to fix the air leaks and obtain Passivhaus certification but since that&#8217;s likely to be disruptive and to take some time I decided to proceed with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/passiv.de\/en\/03_certification\/02_certification_buildings\/08_energy_standards\/08_energy_standards.html\" target=\"_blank\">Passivhaus Institute &#8220;Low Energy Building&#8221;<\/a> certification instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The certification was done by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meadconsulting.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Kym Mead<\/a>; he sent the certificate a while back and I&#8217;ve just now installed the plaque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PHI-LEB-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PHI-LEB-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PHI-LEB-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PHI-LEB-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PHI-LEB-1536x1041.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PHI-LEB-443x300.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PHI-LEB.jpg 1714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>PHI Low Energy Building Plaque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Design-stage certification was to the Passivhaus standard, the best post-build air tightness test result only gave a reading of 0.9 which is not sufficient for the full Passivhaus certification (which must be 0.6 or lower). In principle it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4776\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passivhaus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4778,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}