Tag: Passivhaus

CGI of the new Currie Community High School buildingsThe school will provide 1,000 student places, with three floors of teaching blocks, sports and leisure facilities, a swimming pool, and a café.  A new home for Currie Community High School is being built by Kier for...

Alex Rowley MSP (with the red-handled spade)The Scottish government has said that it will make subordinate legislation within two years, to introduce new minimum environmental design standards for all new-build housing to meet a Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard, to improve energy efficiency and thermal...

Alex Rowley MSP A proposed private member’s bill calls for all new housing in Scotland be built to the Passivhaus standard or to a Scottish equivalent. The bill would apply to every new home built by councils, housing associations or the private sector. The Domestic...

Kingdom Housing Association is developing 30 affordable new homes for social rent at Balgove Road in Gauldry. The properties will all be built to Passivhaus and net-zero-carbon standards. The total project cost is £6.9m with funding of £3.9m provided by the Scottish government and a...

Image credit: Architype/Dalgety DesignThe new Currie Community High School will be the first Passivhaus-designed high school in the Scotland. The Passivhaus energy standard reduces the amount of energy needed for heating by up to 90%. It also lowers the total amount of energy used by...