Promotion of Passive Houses

In the EU-supported project PEP, nine western and northern European countries are co-operating to promote Passive House concepts by using the German/Austrian experience and lessons learned in developing passive houses. The project, called Promotion or European Passive Houses (PEP), has started in January 2005.

The project “PEP” aims at the fundamental goal to spread the experience gained by CEPHEUS (Cost Efficient Passive Houses as EUropean Standards) and the subsequent projects. This will be realized by the following activities

A. Documentation of the energy saving potential of the Passive House concept all over Europe.
B. Show specific solutions for Passive Houses in different European regions and climates and to adapt the passive house designing tool (PHPP, Passive House Planning package) to meet the demands of architects and planners in different countries.
C. Set up an information package with practical information, such as building product documentation, design guides, research results, calculation methods, quality assurance activities.
D. Set up a certification programme and make a link between the Passive House buildings and technologies certification and the national Energy Performance Certification system, according to the EU building directive.
E. Organise national workshops and an annual international Passive House Conference. – This is the Passive House Conference showing up on this website.
F. Create national Passive House websites.

   

Passive Houses in Torhout, Belgium, architect Greta Sabbe

These activities subsequently promote regional economic activities especially for SMEs, which do main part of work for building houses. So a substitution of expenses for energy use during the lifetime of houses by investment in the building envelope is induced. Since many houses will be under reconstruction or newly erected in the near future now the chance is offered to improve the energy efficiency in the housing stock substantially. It thus makes sense to investigate how the experience and knowledge about passive houses can be used in this process, and how the principles of passive houses can be linked to the information and awareness strategies that are intended by the new EU Directive on Energy Performance Certification.

This is subject of
working group no. IV: Getting started - Promotion of Passive Houses

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

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

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

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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