Passive houses
Technology and I´m standing here in front of you to talk about the ,,passive houses I will inform you about
their magnitude and percentage nowadays and also talk about the potential difficulties that might appear
when building a passive house".
But I´ll start off by giving you an overview of the term. The definition of a passive house is based on its
extremely low energy need. Passive houses consume less than a quarter of energy required for a
standrard building, as a result reducing its ecological footprint. So it´s a ultralow energy building which
requires little energy for space heating or cooling.
Sounds appealing right? Sustaining the earth for our future generations and also in the long run benefit
from living there with paying lower taxes.
However sadly, nowadays there is known to be only up to 20,000 passive houses world-wide out of 1,6
billion households. Which leaves us only 1 house out of 80,000. So why such shocking figures?