An Investigation Into the Cost Optimality of the Passive House Retrofit Standard for Irish Dwellings Using Life Cycle Cost Analysis
The Passive House standard represents perhaps the current state-of-the-art in low-energy building design. It is often hailed by its advocates as a cost-optimal standard to be applied to both new and existing dwellings in order to achieve Ireland’s energy and CO2 reduction targets. However, meeting t...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Technological University Dublin
2016-11-01
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Series: | Journal of Sustainable Design and Applied Research in Innovative Engineering of the Built Environment |
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Online Access: | https://arrow.tudublin.ie/sdar/vol4/iss1/2 |