| Greeting
address from Wolfgang Tiefensee, Federal Minister and Patron of
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10th International Conference on Passive Houses
Wolfgang Tiefensee
Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs
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„...
Energy efficient construction reduces
energy consumption, CO2 emissions and energy costs.
It is a challenge, both for new buildings as well as for already
existing buildings. It is a major aim of our federal government.
That is why, in this legislative period, we promote energetic refurbishment
of buildings with a total of 5, 6 billion Euro, providing 1, 4 billion
Euro each year. ...
The German Federal Government will
continue to promote new buildings of Passive Houses and Energy Saving
Houses. The KFW banking group will continue to provide
reduced-interest loans for up to 50.000 Euro per dwelling for building
Passive and Energy Saving Houses. Furthermore, we are going to improve
the building stock with especially innovative measure packages.
Whoever retrofits an old building to a standard even better than
new buildings is granted benefits and loans at reduced interest
rates.
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It is our common task, as I understand it, to disseminate the idea
of Passive Houses following the principle „Do good and talk
about it”. We have to convince even more people that investments
in energy efficiency of buildings are sensible and necessary. May
the Passive Houses Conference contribute to this process. I wish
all participants interesting and stimulating exchanges of ideas
and every success.”
The greeting speech is communicated on 19th of May by Wolfgang
Ornth from the Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs
in comprehensive wording. The organisers would like to thank the
Federal Government for their support.
Active support came from the municipality of Hannover - Hans
Mönninghoff (First city councillor) is addressing the
plenum with a greeting speech.. Stadtwerke Hannover AG have supported
the conference (Walter Meinhold is going to welcome the
participants) and the European Union is promoting PEP (Promotion
of Passive Houses) and Passive.On projects. The international part
of the conference is among the tasks of the PEP project. Gordon
Sutherland is going to speak for the EU commission.
Time
schedule of the 10th International Conference on Passive
Houses in Hannover
The conference proceedings are in print now - we have checked a
preprint. All contributions (but one) were received in time. Special
thanks go to all authors!
2006 May 19th
and 20th 10. Conference on Passive Houses HCC Hannover
with Exhibition
on Passive House Components and
manufacturers
session
May 21st
field trip to the most interesting Passive House projects and construction
sites incl. refurbishment in the region near Hannover.
(updated:2006-05-08
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