Does Passivhaus really fit the bill?

2013-02-08T00:37:00

Why does the BRE and our Building Control system need to be dictated to by Wolfgang Feist — and where did the magic figure for heating demand of less than 15kWh per sq m per year come from? (“Passivhaus faces ‘major obstacles’ in the UK” bdonline February 1).

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