A passive building in Antarctica

This is Princess Elisabeth, a research camp made in  Antarctica by Belgium sciences.

It was design and build using the PassivHaus principles, made from timber frame structure. The U-value of the walls is around 0.07W/m2K.

The buildings it’s maintaining it’s internal comfort only by solar gains, heat from people and electronics plus a small amount of heat.

The heat recovery system

This building is high comfortable, since they are wearing short sleeves.

This building is also a zero emission building, due to it’s sun and wind renewable’s.

picture source : http://www.antarcticstation.org/

http://www.antarcticstation.org/station/passive_building/