The Passivhaus Designer’s Manual: A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings 1st Edition

I've been trying to imagine who would find this book useful. It's highly theoretical, but not in a practical way. Stuffed full of equations (thermodynamics, etc.), there's little in it that would actually help in the design of one of these buildings. It basically says use the PHPP software. What this field REALLY needs is a practical book that builders could use along the lines of Carpentry & Building Construction by Spence, but tailored to this field. I read a lot of books in a year, and return very few, but this just might be one of them.

Great book, an intense read

Best book I have found on Passivhaus design. This is a keeper.

Todo perfecto y en tiempo récord. Un buen libro a nivel técnico sobre el standard pasivhauss a todos los niveles.

I am not an architect, although I have recently entered the construction industry (not particularly by choice but by circumstance) but I am very interested in building a PassivHaus dwelling for myself in the coming years. I have read this book from cover to cover. It is like an encyclopaediaof PassivHaus knowledge, it indeed is a manual... and probably the only one you will need. It goes into minute detail, which may or may not suit everyone, but is relevant no less. I have ear marked pages, highlighted sections and made notes in the margins. I can't imagine building a PassivHaus 'blind' without having read a manual like this. It should be compulsory reading for the home owner, self builder, architect, engineer, planning officials and the construction firm. Then again, most people who are interested in building to PassivHaus standards are people who have researched the ideas and methodology in great detail anyway and will have probably already read this.I couldn't recommend this manual highly enough. It will be by my side throughout the entire design, plan and build process and I am grateful that such a book combining all this information is available in one manual.

Very detailed. Exactly what we were looking for!

Present from my daughter as building a house . So detailed it had everything you need to know !

Libro muy completo sobre passivhaus. Información detallada.