Posts Tagged ‘thermal lag’
Site Orientation & Characteristics
Continuing our look into passive design principles, we look at the importance of site orientation and how to use it in your original design. Image: Passive Epringham House, MSG Architecture 2015 A clever site responsive design can reduce heating and cooling loads and the need for expensive upgrades for the comfort of your home. When working on the initial…
Read MoreWhy Choose Central Avenue Homes to provide you a custom designed home
Why you should have Central Avenue Homes design and build your Custom Designed Home? Have you ever wanted to build the home of your dreams – but had no idea where to begin? Have you ever looked at a plan and thought, “I love that, but don’t like that? This house won’t fit on our block” etc. Engaging…
Read MorePassive Solar Designs by Central Avenue Homes
Construction, insulation and materials for passive designed homes We previously took an in depth look at passive design, house site characteristics and site orientation when designing a solar passive home. Double brick has always been the construction method of choice for new homes in Perth, WA. This is certainly not the best method of construction…
Read MoreIncorporating Passive Design To Create Sustainable Suburban Homes
Incorporating Passive Design At Central Avenue Homes we try to use passive design principles so our clients benefit from comfortable environment. This assists with lower heating and cooling costs. In this post we discuss what Passive Design is. The key principles and how they can be used in your new home design. We encourage our clients to explore this topic further…
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