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Practices that conflict with each other
What design strategies have you used in your PEB to ensure that residents’ diverse heating needs are fulfilled?
- There are thermostats in each room
- There is one thermostat in the living area and another one in the sleeping area
- There is only one thermostat in the dwelling
- Residents can change the temperature setpoint(s) on the thermostat(s) themselves
- There is home automation to adjust to residents’ habits
Has your design assumed that occupants would sleep with the windows open in winter?
- Yes
- No
If yes, how has your design accounted for this to optimize energy efficiency?
- Installation of smart controls so when the system detects that a window is open, the heating turns off automatically
- Having bedroom doors closed is encouraged among the residents via training/user manuals so that only the temperature in the bedroom drops
What design strategies have you considered/ implemented in your PEB for residents to be able to get rid of cooking odours?
- Mechanical ventilation
- Manually opening windows
- Active window system – windows that open automatically when programmed
- Filtered-air recirculation
- Kitchen recirculation hood
- Kitchen layout
- No particular strategies have been used or have been deemed necessary
How do those chosen design strategies ensure the optimisation of energy efficiency in the building?
- Smart controls are installed to automatically close windows after a certain amount of time
- When a window has been left open for a certain amount of time an alarm rings
- HMS (Home Management System) sends notifications to the residents
- It was not considered necessary
What design strategies have you considered/ implemented in your PEB for residents to be able to get rid of cleaning odours?
- Mechanical ventilation
- Manually opening windows
- Active window system – windows that open automatically when programmed
- Filtered-air recirculation
- No particular strategies have been used or have been deemed necessary
How do those design strategies put in place in your PEB ensure the optimisation of energy efficiency in the building?
- Smart controls are installed to automatically close windows after a certain amount of time
- When a window has been left open for a certain amount of time an alarm rings
- HMS (Home Management System) sends notifications to the residents
- It was not considered necessary
How have you traded-off local/cultural ways of ventilating/opening windows with the need to optimise the energy efficiency of the building?
- Windows are not openable
- Windows are manually openable
- Windows are manually openable and close automatically after a certain time
- No particular strategies have been used or have been deemed necessary
How have you anticipated and designed for a correct use of the mechanical ventilation (one that optimizes energy efficiency) by the residents in your PEB?
- Residents receive a user manual with instructions when they move into the building
- Residents receive training when they move into the building
- Mechanical ventilation is normalized in the region where the PEB is built and residents, in general, know how to operate the mechanical ventilation correctly
- No particular strategies have been used or have been deemed necessary
What design strategies have you used in your PEB to ensure that residents’ diverse cooling needs are fulfilled?
- Having manually openable windows
- Installing fans
- Installing air conditioning
- Adding mobile shading systems that can be operated by the residents (venetian blinds, vertical blinds, roller shades, etc.)
- Incorporating fixed solar shading systems (overhangs, horizontal/vertical louvers, egg-crates, etc.) in the design of the building
- Maintaining the trees/plants/vegetation present in the immediate surroundings of the building
- Adding trees/plants/vegetation in the immediate surroundings of the building to the design
- No particular strategies have been used or have been deemed necessary
Which design features, that go beyond technological solutions, have you taken into account when designing your PEB, a building that generates more energy than the energy that it consumes?
- Compactness in order to minimize the amount of surface in contact with external conditions
- Orientation of the living and the sleeping areas
- Layout of the dwellings
- Layout of the dwellings allowing for crossed ventilation
- External shading systems integrated in the building
- Use of local construction materials
- Using the plot topography to increase thermal inertia
- No particular design strategies have been used or have been deemed necessary