This issue features the dramatic transformation of a 1970s Dublin dwelling into an architect’s dream home-and-office, inspired by the adjacent Victorian villas & certified to the passive house retrofit standard. There’s also a beautiful new oak-framed passive house B&B in England’s Malvern Hills, & a best-in-class deep retrofit in Hampshire that has managed to radically transform a cold 1930s home. This issue also includes cradle-to-grave embodied carbon assessments for each of these projects. With a growing focus on using timber and other natural materials in buildings, we look at how the construction sector can tackle the ecological as well as the climate emergency. We also examine how to decarbonise heating, and feature an exclusive report on the high number of new homes failing to meet the NZEB standard. This issue of the magazine also includes a stunning passive-certified hostel along the route of the Camino de Santiago, plus we have all the latest industry news and opinion.
