1. Passive-On: Marketable Passive Homes for Winter and Summer Comfort Passive Home Training Module for Architects and Planners

3. Building sector Energy Consumption

5. Passive Systems

7. Passive Systems White washed houses and narrow streets in the Santa Cruz district of Seville, Spain. Just two of the many different strategies employed by traditional architecture to keep houses cool in summer.

9. Low energy active components Ceiling fan can improve summer thermal comfort with reduced electricity consumption (12 W at low speed, 32 W at medium speed) Ventilation unit with 78% heat recovery efficiency and low electricity consumption, proven in field measurements . The heat recovered in an heat exchanger will often be several times greater than the electrical energy used by the heat exchanger fan

10. Thermal Comfort

15. Passivhaus Standard

19. Passivhaus diversity Passivhaus may present a diversity of styles

20. Passivhaus for Warmer climates

23. Passivhaus Standard (2007) Current German Passivhaus Standard for Central European Countries Proposed Passivhaus Standard for Warm European Climates Heating criterion : The useful energy demand for space heating does not exceed 15 kWh per m² net habitable floor area per annum. Primary energy criterion : The primary energy demand for all energy services, including heating, domestic hot water, auxiliary and household electricity, does not exceed 120 kWh per m² net habitable floor area per annum. Comfort criterion room temperature winter : The operative room temperatures can be kept above 20 °C in winter, using the abovementioned amount of energy. Air tightness : The building envelope must have a pressurization test result according to EN 13829 of no more than 0.6 h -1 . All energy demand values are calculated according to the Passive House Planning Package ( PHPP ) and refer to the net habitable floor area, i.e. the sum of the net floor areas of all habitable rooms. Air tightness : If good indoor air quality and high thermal comfort are achieved by means of a mechanical ventilation system, the building envelope should have a pressurization test (50 Pa) result according to EN 13829 of no more than 0.6 ach -1 . For locations with winter design ambient temperatures above 0 °C, a pressurization test result of 1.0 h -1 is usually sufficient to achieve the heating criterion. Cooling criterion : The useful, sensible energy demand for space cooling does not exceed 15 kWh per m² net habitable floor area per annum. Comfort criterion room temperature summer : In warm and hot seasons, operative room temperatures remain within the comfort range defined in EN 15251. Furthermore, if an active cooling system is the major cooling device, the operative room temperature can be kept below 26 °C.

26. Passive Strategies

54. Proposing Passivhaus for Southern Europe

66. Passivhaus Spain – Performance Predicted temperatures during one week winter in the Passivhaus in Granada Predicted annual heating demand (red) and cooling demand (blue) for Standard House and Passivhaus in Seville and Granada

87. Climate Analysis

90. Temperature and Radiation Maps Winter Degree-Days Summer Degree-Days Radiation over horizontal surface in winter (kW/m 2 ) Radiation over horizontal surface in summer (kW/m 2 )

93. Climatic Severity Index Maps Winter Climatic Severity Index (WCS) Summer Climatic Severity Index (WCS)