Passive House Terrace

HLM's revolutionary energy-saving houses was exhibited at the UK's first sustainable Housing Fair, Scotland's Housing Expo, held in Inverness in summer 2010. The aim of the Fair was to create houses which have a strong focus upon high quality design, innovative technology, and the use of sustainable systems and features.

HLM developed a terrace of three family houses to PassivHaus standard as part of the Expo. PassivHaus refers to the rigorous standard for energy efficiency in buildings pioneered in Germany in the 1990s. Translated to Scottish Housing it results in ultra low-energy buildings, dispensing with conventional heating systems altogether. The units are some of the first PassivHaus schemes to be constructed in Scotland and the UK.

The Scottish PassivHaus Centre played a key role in the project, supporting the design team through detail design stages with energy efficiency consultancy and PassivHaus planning package calculations, and supplied PassivHaus components for the construction of the units.