Assembly Performance
The driving force behind the Passive Ger is the challenge of adapting a Mongolian Ger to meet that the Passive House criteria - reducing the ger’s heat loss, energy consumption, and moisture damage. Because the Passive House Standard is one of the highest construction standards for energy efficient buildings (and can often be fairly expensive) - the design strategy uses the standard as a guideline to improve the building performance of Ger, creating a more energy efficient building assembly.
The final heating load calculations of the Passive Ger ranges between 159.9 - 177.9 kWh/M2/year according to Saint-Gobain and Building Technology’s calculations, meeting the heating load requirements of the Mongolian Green Finance Corporation (results vary due to each party’s modeling methods).
The Passive Ger is approximately 8 times more energy efficient than a Traditional Mongolian Ger.
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* Building Science Assessment conducted by: Building Technology’s Engineering Company (BTEC), Saint-Gobain: CertainTeed, and Nomadic Synergetic Partners.
** More extensive modeling and testing should be conducted on the physical prototype in order to ensure the airtightness of the assembly, as well as more accurate estimates using passive house design tools such as PHPP and other dynamic energy and thermal bridge analysis tools.