Thornleigh Passive House

Another article: Angela Saurine. Sneak peek into Sydney’s first certified passive house. Daily Telegraph / Wentworth Courier. May 9, 2023. The article covers 'light house' in Bronte Gully, the Passive House in Thornleigh, 'the seed house' in Castlecrag, 'pitched perfection' in Greenwich.

Inside we were between 20 & 25 °C 100% of the month and we used slightly more energy than we used. April was solidly fall weather with a large number of overcast days... it was definitely summer (median temperature 17 °C). The split system was off the entire month. The HRV was not in a season. Outside temperatures ranged from 9 to 28 °C, while inside we were a comfortable 20.4 to 24.8 °C. We had a few rainly days and a couple of very cloudy weeks. Temperature from inside and outside the house as the percentage of hours in 0.5 °C bins. I've scaled the temperature in hope that I will be able to use the temperature range for all 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 wirelessTag sensors spread across...