Saturday, May 21, 2016, from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Address: 50226 Frechen | Europaallee 45 | FertighausWelt Köln/Frechen Program 11.15 a.m. Official opening and blessing of the house from 12.00 p.m. Building experts will advise you throughout the day, on the topics of "Healthy Building & Living", "Innovative Building Technology" and "Individual & Modern Architecture" Experts [...]
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In 2015, 939 projects with 548 million euros were newly approved by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. In the previous year, the figure was 695 projects with 373 million euros in funding. Most of the money went to wind energy, photovoltaics, energy efficiency in buildings and cities, energy storage and grid infrastructure. A detailed insight into [...]
According to the DGS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie e.V. - German Solar Energy Society), the general conditions for solar thermal systems are more attractive than ever before, which is related to the market incentive programme (MAP) for solar thermal subsidies that was overhauled last year. After years of dwindling sales, the latest collector sales statistics from the German Solar Industry Association (BSW) and the German Heating Industry Association [...]
ifeu-Institut Heidelberg commissioned by the Heinrich Böll Foundation In recent years, many cities around the world have committed themselves to significantly reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by improving their heat supply and thus making an important contribution to climate protection. Despite the energy transition, Germany is lagging behind in this endeavour because the energy transition [...]
Question: The energy transition has entered a new phase with the EEG reform of summer 2014. How do you assess the current situation? Nina Scheer: The question of when it entered a new phase cannot always be identified so precisely. In any case, it was marked out in the coalition agreement, and it was given legal form [...].
How local initiatives and associations can be supported in the development and implementation of climate protection projects at neighbourhood level was the topic of an expert meeting on 4 February at the Pestel Institute in Hanover. The participants from science and practice discussed a new funding concept of the BMUB, which supports the local implementation of climate protection within the framework of the National Climate Initiative [...].
The new housing development "Ludmilla Wohnpark" was built in Landshut with more than 180 residential units in plus-energy construction. Five single-family houses, two semi-detached houses, six terraced houses and eight multi-family houses with a total of 55 apartments were built on a plot of around 7,300 square metres. Researchers from Munich University of Applied Sciences and the Technical University of Dresden are evaluating the quarter [...].
With the many successful, new examples of façade integration of photovoltaics and solar thermal energy, the pages starting on p.36 are particularly interesting for architects. In addition, the study provides detailed fundamentals of building-integrated solar-active systems and shows their potential. Hegger, Manfred; Drebes, Christoph; Wurzbacher, Steffen (2015): benefit E - Gebäudeintegrierte solaraktive Systeme (Final Report), [...].
On 12 December 2015, the climate negotiating parties in Paris agreed that global warming should be limited to a maximum of 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius. This was presented with such confidence that one could almost forget that the Earth's atmosphere has no thermostat. No one can assure, certainly not on the basis [...]
The internationally renowned electrosmog expert Dr. Klaus Trost explains which electromagnetic radiation is emitted by PV systems, the magnitude of this radiation and what to look out for when installing the system components.
The following 2 minute video (Nov. 2015) reports on the visions for the urban future of the Morgenstadt program and the focal points of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft's work:
While the sound barrier of 100,000 installed fuel cells was already broken in Japan last year, numerous heating technology suppliers presented natural gas fuel cell heaters for the first time at the ISH in Frankfurt in March of this year, which are now to conquer German boiler rooms after decades of development and testing.
With more than 1,700 completed buildings, SolarActiveHouses are no longer a marginal phenomenon. What has been missing so far is a scientific evaluation of this heat supply concept. To this end, researchers have measured nine solar houses over several heating periods. The responsible project manager Gerhard Stryi-Hipp presented the interim results at the OTTI symposium "Thermal Solar Energy". Read the further in the [...]
The six 72-square-meter apartments of the GBB Plusenergiehaus on Südring are intended for tenants who have a certificate of eligibility for housing. Demand was high. Even before completion, all of the apartments, which were ready for occupancy from May 2015, were already occupied.
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. M.Sc. Econ. Manfred Hegger, gave a lecture on 26 November 2014 at the 6th North German Passive House Conference in Neumünster on the topic "Aktivplus im Blick: Guiding Thoughts - Implementation - Perspectives".
Since September 2014, Wagner Solar, a solar pioneer from Cölbe, has been a subsidiary of Sanderink Holding under the leadership of Dutch entrepreneur Gerard Sanderink. The business operations are continued under the name Wagner Solar GmbH. The managing director is Brigitte van Egten, a lawyer with experience in the industry.
The municipal council of the city of Wels has adopted a declaration on passive house construction. In it, the magistrate is instructed to strive for the energy-saving passive house standard in all new buildings and renovations of the city and municipal enterprises. The godfather for this resolution, which was passed unanimously, was apparently the city of Frankfurt a.M., which, according to current political resolutions, will in future [...]