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Time is going by, we are a British couple who bought some land in Risan in 2007 with the intention of building the first family house in Montenegro, designed to German Passivhaus standards... To find out how to build an energy-efficient house took us time to learn. From 2009 until 2013 we attended endless Passivhaus conferences in Germany and Austria, where we met incredible builders of heating and ventilation systems and other suppliers to build a Passivhaus. Interestingly though, none, not even the best-rated companies in the sector, offered air conditioning! Why does one need air-conditioning, based in middle Europe? With more frequent and longer summer heatwaves, this mindset must change. Try living for 10 or more weeks with outside temperatures in the 30°s to 40°s! Also none of them had a branch in Montenegro; Belgrade yes, but Serbia has been a foreign country since 2006. One criterion of a Passivhaus is that components need to be sourced as close as possible to the site. We..