Future-Orientated Programme of the 12th Conference on Passive Houses 2008

The upcoming Passive House Conference will be the sofar most comprehensive and most international one. Two of the four working groups held in parallel will deal with the use of Passive House technology around the globe from Korea over Moscow, Oslo and Dublin to Boston, Washington and Dallas - customized energy-efficient solutions on the basis of the Passive House concept helps to obtain top results: Energy savings reaching a sustainable and affordable level, and permanently best values of comfort during summer and winter.

This is proved by the increasing interest from politicians and from economy to see sustainable solutions: The conference takes place under the aegis of German Federal minister Wolfgang Tiefensee. The parliamentary state secretary Karin Roth will speak at the conference on April 12th, and the opening adress will be given by the Bavarian State Minister Joachim Herrmann.

The director of "Intelligent Energy Europe" (IEEA), Vincent Berrutto, will deduce why the efficient use of energy has the highest priority in European energy policy. Jens Lautsen from the International Energy Agency (Paris) will also stress the importance of an extraordinary high energy efficiency. The European Parliament has recommended in the beginning of 2008, that starting from 2011 the Passivhaus standard should be made mandatory in all European countries for new buildings (see this link).

Passive Houses everywhere in the EU? The European Parliament called for making mandatory Passive House standards as early as 2011 for all new buildings. At the 12th Passive House conference in Nuremberg decisive results will be presented: Realized projects from Moscow to the "mezzogiorno", from winter cold continental climate to the subtropical summer hot regions.
From Arctic sea to Mediterranean sea.

There will be 76 lectures, including 6 plenary ones. Further 52 authors will create posters and present them in short presentations.

A particular focus of the 12th International conference on Passive Houses is the modernization of existing buildings using passive components. This in average leads to energy savings of about a factor 10. Burkhard Schulze Darup will show in his opening speech, how this vision was brought through dedicated work in demonstration projects to a general adoption.

Again, it is the combination of theory and practice, which strengthens the Passive House conference: Tools, which are just as useful as reliable to enable successful projects.

More and more important the international part will be - and it is precisely the experience from different climate zones which also foster the development in Central Europe.

The conference team would like to thank the authors of the contributions to the conference proceedings, as in last year almost all contributions were sent to the editorial team in time - the conference volumes, in German and in English, will be available in advance.