‘Achieving Passive House Certification required balancing thermal and environmental performance while retaining natural daylight,’ Kieran continues. ‘We specified our ideal glazing performance and visual light transmittance to the builder, who carefully selected Insulglass LowE Max<sup>®</sup> double glazing from Australian Glass Group’.
‘The exceptional performance of Insulglass LowE Max<sup>®</sup> allowed us to pull off the balancing act of providing ample natural daylight while keeping the building extremely well-insulated – all within the allotted budget,’ Kieran adds.
This ambitious approach has richly paid off. ‘Passive House Certification, which involves minimising the energy consumed for heating and cooling, is rare in Australia, and the Glenroy Community Hub achieves this decisively,’ Kieran concludes.
Insulglass LowE Max<sup>®</sup> allowed the project to receive such high levels of internal daylight while offering superior performance in both Insulation (very low U-Value) and Solar Control (very low SHGC).
Everyone involved in the Hub’s design and construction should be commended for creating this environmentally exemplary building, which inventively employs the unique capacities of energy-efficient glazing in its future-focused design.
