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23 | 05 | 17

Industry Day in Silken Park Citywest

Industry Day in Silken Park Citywest
Industry Day is focused on creating awareness for new dynamic approaches, including the Passive House standard in order to meet the new NZEB targets and to ensure a high quality housing stock is delivered which creates long term value and a sustainable solution to the current housing crisis.
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11 | 01 | 17

Durkan Residential achieve “World-Leading Airtightness”

Durkan Residential achieve “World-Leading Airtightness”
Our new build in Silken Park is making headlines again: “Ireland’s Largest Passive Scheme Achieves World-Leading Airtightness”.
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20 | 12 | 16

Silken Park – Airtight Case Study

Silken Park – Airtight Case Study
With Silken Park phase 3 underway, see Passive House Plus magazine’s airtightness case study of phase 2 which was built earlier this year. Download here: Passive House Plus (no.18) Silken Park
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13 | 12 | 16

Top Score for Airtightness in Silken Park

Top Score for Airtightness in Silken Park
Our new development in Silken Park, Citywest, is setting the standard for airtightness. Yesterday the team recorded a result of 0.16 ACH50 which far exceeds the minimum requirement of 0.6 ACH50 airtightness in Passive House construction.
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19 | 11 | 16

New Build Case Study – Silken Park

New Build Case Study – Silken Park
This case study highlights our attention to detail and commitment to a better built home. Airtight, thermal bridging and external wall insulation techniques applied to Phase 2 of Silken Park, completed earlier this year, led to our commitment to go a step further and build a fully certified Passive House for Phase 3 which is due to launch in January 2017.
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