5. How can we overcome prejudice, and what are the expected benefits?

It's easier to criticize than to build, and there are many prejudices about passive building. Here are just a few of them.

• The construction technique is imposed (false)

• Passive buildings are expensive. In the short term, it is, but the extra cost is quickly amortized through savings on energy bills.

• It's not aesthetic (subjective criterion).

• Windows can't be opened (false).

Thanks to their bioclimatic design, passive buildings offer the following advantages:

• virtual independence from fossil fuels;

• more luminosity in the various zones;

• more comfort in winter and summer ;

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