18th International Passive House Conference 2013

Session I: Passive House on the regional level

Friday, 25 April 2014

13:00	Ulrike Leidinger, Eckhard Wendel \| The City of Aachen − on the way to Passive House The City of Aachen has adopted the Aachen Standard, which is similar to the Passive House Standard. The first experience with 12 buildings shows that building services do not need to be complicated. We believe that intensive monitoring – called "work phase 10" here – is necessary.
13:25	Hartmut Murschall \| Energy efficiency in North Rhine-Westphalia: political commitment and support Since the late 1990s, North Rhine-Westphalia has supported the use of Passive House technology. Up to now, 3,700 residential units and various nonresidential buildings have been constructed in compliance with the Passive House Standard. Some 10,000 people now live in 150 solar and climate protection neighborhoods.
13:50	Matthias Linder \| The City of Frankfurt: 10 years of experience with public Passive House buildings Since 2004, the City of Frankfurt has completed 61 Passive House projects. Experience from these projects was used in formulating the 2014 Guidelines on Affordable Building. The Passive House Standard can be affordable for around 90 percent of municipal construction projects.
14:15	Michael Stephan \| Tradesperson and designer network in the Aachen region Tradespeople and designers registered in a special network as an energieeffizienzFACHBETRIEB or energieeffizienzPLANER must pledge to follow the Energy Code. The network plays a part in increasing the retrofitting rate and improving energy efficiency in energy-focused retrofits of existing buildings in the Aachen region.
14:40	I. Klawitter, J. Probst \| Energy concept and sustainable design in Belgium's German community The German-speaking community of Belgium is currently working on an energy concept to be presented in April 2014. At the same time, a sustainable building decree is also in the works; it will specify eligibility for funding for public buildings.
15:05	Markus Lehmenkühler \| E-View – an online monitoring system not only for public administrative bodies The City of Aachen has developed a new tool for the monitoring and visualization of energy consumption in its own buildings: E-View. The system provides detailed information about consumption based on data from 1,000 meters in 196 buildings. It is being further developed in cooperation with regio iT.