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Passive Houses in Hot Climates

On the other side Passive Houses are spreadimg across the Alps towards Southern Europe – numerous projects have already been successfully built in Southern Tyrol.

Passive House "Neue Post" located in Bolzano, Southern Tyrol, Italy.
Architect Michael Tribus, Lana.

The more the climate is different from central European conditions, the more building services and elements of Passive Houses need to adapt to the changed circumstances. The Passive House is a functional and integral concept, where not fixed U-values of windows and building elements are required. The criteria are to have a good thermal comfort in summer and in winter times with very little energy consumption.

Naturally, in the Mediterranean region summer cooling is more in the foreground. “Passive-On”, a project of the European Union, is explicitly concerned with the application of Passive House principles in Southern Europe. It is also helping to carry out the 11th conference on Passive Houses. Results of the project “Passive-On” will be presented in presentations at this conference in Bregenz in April 2007.

This is subject of
working group no. 9: Passive Houses in Hot Climates

Working group No. 9 is part of the international sessions. Only papers in english are accepted for this working group.

Time schedule of the 11^th International Conference on Passive Houses in Bregenz

• 2006 November 15^th: Deadline for the written Abstracts
  (send it by e-mail, please: tagung@passiv.de
• 2006 December 22^nd: Notification on acceptance of abstracts (done)
• 2007 February 1st: Deadline for written and accepted papers
• 2007 April 13th and 14^th Conference (registration is necessary)
• 2007 April 15th Excursion (only for conference participants; registration is necessary)

Call for Papers PDF 259 kb
Invitation to the 11th Conference on Passive Houses Bregenz 2007 PDF 259 kb
How to get to the Cenference PDF 63 kb

Call 2006-September 9th

Tips how to write a paper see at the authors pages.