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when I see one. Indeed, one of the most
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Acharacle primary school project in Scotland. open and healthy debate about which passive
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The correspondents in question appear to be solutions may or may not work is no bad thing.
Laurence Aston, Director of Mechanical
complaining that the school certainly does not And one of the best ways of generating this is
Engineering, Morgan Professional Services
David Clark, Partner, Max Fordham fully meet official PassivHaus standards; and exactly the kind of detailed case study that is
Consulting Engineers
Patrick Conaghan, Partner, Hoare Lea
that, anyway, it would exemplified by the Acharacle
Consulting Engineers
need a certificate from story. So let us know what
David Hughes, Building Services Consultant,
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Philip King, Director, Hilson Moran
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to be able to make this
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or have completed, or are in
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Stephen Lisk, President, The Society of Light
and Lighting Granted, the Journal,
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labelling may become
buildings services engineer
Ged Tyrrell, Managing Director,
the story, was strictly
Tyrrell Systems myopic when it
or in any other part of the
Ant Wilson, Director, AECOM
speaking inaccurate in industry.
Morwenna Wilson, Graduate Engineer, Arup
referring to the project
comes to
Another contribution from
Terry Wyatt, Consultant to Hoare Lea
as being a PassivHaus
passive
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or what particular certification regime it may Bob Cervi, Editor
fit. By the same token, much argument rages
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