Smarter Home Automation
November 3, 2024
Home Performance Index (HPI) Certification is Ireland’s national certification for new homes. Similar to certification for commercial development like LEED and BREEAM, except that it’s specifically designed for residential development and aligns to Irish building regulations, EU CEN standards and international WELL certification for communities. The certification was awarded 5 out 5 for best practice and transparency by the European Construction Sector Observatory.
The easy-to-use Home Performance index manual guides design teams to consider standards and criteria to produce great quality homes, healthy and comfortable, with efficient use of resources, minimising waste and destruction of the environment.
HPI certification is based on over 30 verifiable indicators in five categories. Mandatory requirements are set in the most important areas, such as water efficiency, ventilation, thermal bridging, and enhanced airtightness. For each level, mandatory performance standards in certain indicators must be achieved, in addition to the required score. The applicant is required to demonstrate that homes are designed to meet minimum performance levels in certain indicators which may exceed standard building regulations.
At KNX Ireland, we offer HPI solutions attracting an exemplary 5 points in the category of ‘EC5: Smart Monitoring’ as detailed below.
Our solutions to Smart Monitoring are cost effective and designed on an open-source framework ensuring interoperability.
If you’d like to learn more including concept design and costing, please contact us via the form below.
