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Passive House Model for Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses and Its Intelligent System

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The Passive House, along with models of its composite parts, has been developed globally. Simulation tools analyze its energy use, comfort, micro-climate, quality of life and esthetics as well as its technical, economic, legal/regulatory, educational and innovative aspects. Meanwhile the social, cultural, ethical, psychological, emotional, religious and ethnic aspects operating over the course of the existence of a Passive House are given minimal attention or are ignored entirely. However, all the aspects mentioned must be analyzed in an integrated manner during the time a Passive House is in existence. The author of this chapter along with colleagues implemented this goal while they participated in two Intelligent Energy Europe programs, the NorthPass and the IDES-EDU projects. The Passive House model for quantitative and qualitative analyses and its intelligent system was developed during the time of these projects. The model and intelligent system are briefly described in this chapter, which ends with a case study.

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Kaklauskas, A. (2015). Passive House Model for Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses and Its Intelligent System. In: Biometric and Intelligent Decision Making Support. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 81. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13659-2_3

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