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Pol Sarsanedas – Jury member of the III Iberoamerican Passivhaus Contest

The III Iberoamerican Passivhaus Contest was organized on the occasion of the 7th Spanish Passivhaus Conference by Passivhaus Building Platform (PEP).

To the contest may submit projects which were realized according to the Passivhaus standard and positively valued in other criteria of sustainability and environmental certification. Projects of new construction or rehabilitation, built or being drafted have to be located in Spain or Latin America.

Pol Sarsanedas as an expert in building Passivhaus was a members of the III Contest Iberoamerican Passivhaus jury. Along with Aurelio Monterde, Julián Molinero, Nuria Widman, John Kregel, Xavier Rodríguez and Antoni Solanas, they have choosen 15 finalists and then the winner, who will have a presentation about his project in the Conference on the 26th and 27th of November in Barcelona.

The jury wanted to emphasize the high level of presented projects in both the study of proper parameters of the Passivhaus standard, as well as architectural and environmental considerations and attention to details.

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Our Low energy MZ House in the Expansión Magazine

The Spanish economic daily newspaper “Expansión” has published an article about houses that consume almost no energy.

The five of the most significant projects in Spain, including our MZ House, had been selected to show ideas and solutions of Passive houses. It was also explained that there is no need to use a specific material, but only the maximum optimization of existing resources and insulation in the construction process is required. Additionally German Passive House Institute was mentioned as an agency which is certifying such type of houses.

A challenge of our Low energy MZ House was described as a refurbishment of a house built in 1918 with preserving the original facades together with improving its thermal and acoustic comfort. Moreover it was highlighted that the construction and materials used in rehabilitation systems have achieved the objective in just 120 days.

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Dr Feist, founder of the Passivhaus Institute, talks about the Low Energy MZ House in Leipzig

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Dr Feist, founder of the Passivhaus Institute in Darmstadt, talked about the Low Energy MZ House (Calderon-Folch-Sarsanedas, 2012) in the International Passive House Conference in Leipzig in April 2015.

He said: ‘”überraschend sehr guten Ergebnissen für das Sommerklima”; ‘surprisingly very good results for the summer climate’

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Lecture in the World Sustainable Building WSB14

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Marc Folch gives a lecture in the WSB14 link

Can we measure something as intangible as COMFORT?
We’ve tried. For almost two years, we’ve been monitoring the MZ HOUSE in Barcelona. This is a project of CALDERON-FOLCH-SARSANEDAS, I am one of the architects and this is my family’s home. We have more than 15.000 hours monitored which represents about 60.000 data. The air quality, the interior and ambient temperatures and the relative humidity have been recorded every 60 minutes.

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Interview: Barcelona Metropolis Magazine

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Article by Laura Basagaña for Barcelona Metropolis (photo: Dani Codina): The architecture of Calderon-Folch-Sarsanedas Arquitectes is responsible, committed and supportive of the environment and future generations. In this regard, Marc Folch describes the city as a “model and a source of inspiration” for the world, but he stresses that “if we want to continue to be pioneers and give greater value to our assets then we have to promote new-generation models. And it is precisely in the field of sustainability where we have a great op­portunity, both in architecture and urban planning.”

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