Thornleigh Passive House

More press... Thornleigh Passive House was pictured in the Climate Council's report " TENTS TO CASTLES:Building Energy Efficient, Cost-Saving Aussie Homes " (Figure 10). I was also interviewed for an ABC News article on the Climate Council's report and improving the quality of Australian buildings (2022.Apr.21). Another interview for an article in The Green List  (2022.May.16). Another interview for an article in the Daily Telegraph ( paywalled )....

March has been super wet (very cloudy and lots of rain ), so we haven't been generating much electricity and we ran the dehumidifier on 5 days. The split system was on an automatic mode for 10 days of the month (cooling from 10:00 - 18:15) and the HRV was solidly in 'cooling season' until the last week of the month. The HRV did a great job of keeping the house in the comfort zone. School is back, so the kids were at school, but at least one parent was working from home on most days. Temperature from inside and outside the house as the percentage of hours in 0.5 °C bins. I've scaled the temperature in hopes that they will be comparable across months. Methods: I have taken the 5 minutely data from the wirelessTag sensors and calculated the median temperature for each hour and determined the proportion of hours falling inside of the 20 - 25 °C target temperature (using the R functions 'aggregate' and 'hist'). Inside includes data from the wirelessT