• OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Nice, I have much the same setup in my house!

    I visited the recently Passive House certified student residence buildings at the University of Victoria, and the heat recovery there is quite interesting. Passive House requires a very low heating load, so they recover all the heat they can from the commercial kitchen (the presence of which is rare in a Passive House because of high ventilation requirements) processes such as ventilation hoods and refrigeration systems and put it into the DHW system.

    They had to get a bit creative with the design, but it’s really not that complicated. More just not doing things the way they’ve always been done.