Working Group No. III:
Implementation in the Hannover-Region

In 2006, the Conference on Passive Houses is located in Hannover – for numerous good reasons. Some of these good reasons are going to be presented in working group no. III.

Wherever energy is being used it has to be used as energy-efficient as possible. The actual utilisation occurs with the end users in the region which is why regional activities are so important. Development lives to a great extent on good examples: The Hannover region in particular has to offer several of them.

Stefan Bär is reporting from “Two new Day-Care Centres built in the Passive House Standard – Light Weight and Solid Construction“. The city council of Hannover has not long since decided to build new day-care centres applying the Passive House standard if financial conditions allow it. Stefan Bär is going to present the first two projects.

Passive House Day-Care Centre in Hannover

Carsten Grobe is showing the development status of a very ambitious project: “Refurbishment of an Old School Building using the Passive House Standard“. The state capital of Hannover is presently organising the refurbishment of an integrated comprehensive school (app. 20.000 qm² total floor space). How about the Passive House Standard? Is it applicable for such a big school building and possible to realise within the range of refurbishment activities?

Passive House - Gymnasium in Laatzen

An already existing building is the ‘Dreifeld-gymnasium’, part of the Albert-Einstein-school and erected in Passive House standard by the municipality of Laatzen. Gerd Kis is presenting this project and in particular highlighting reasons why the municipality of Laatzen decided in favour of the Passive House standard. The gymnasium is also one of the model projects that can be visited at the excursion on May 21st.

Friedhelm Birth is introducing the modernisation project „MFH Schneiderberg 17 Hannover“. It is a model project „dena ( German Energy Agency) Level B with Passive House Components“.

In Hannover, the driving force behind the Passive House movement is the climate protection fund „proKlima“, one of the main organizers of the 10th Conference on Passive Houses. ProKlima serves as a model for the voluntary, local and cooperative implementation of climate protection targets which were set at the „Rio-Conference“ on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro,1992. What instruments have been used to achieve these targets and what first findings could up till now be derived is part of Manfred Görg’s lecture on Friday morning "Think global - Act Concrete; Implementation of a Sustainable Energy Strategy considering proKlima as Example".

Time schedule of the 10^th International Conference on Passive Houses in Hannover

2006 February 1st:    Notification on acceptance of abstracts (done)
2006 March 15th:       Deadline for the written contributions of the preceedings
2006 March 31st (elongated):   Registration period for reduced fee ends

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.

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.2006-02-17
Programme of the 10th International Conference on Passive Houses
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