1000 Passive houses in Austria - 1. Documentation period
The first joint project of the four IG passive house organisations on behalf of the programme line "Building of Tomorrow" - an initiative of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology - for the purpose of setting up a detailed network documentation of 80% of all passive houses in Austria.
Description / table of contents Status finished
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Summary Motivation The ecological passive house fulfils the need for living quality, comfort and cosiness at a quality level hardly attained so far. This applies to both single and multi-family homes as well as public and industrial buildings and is the most consistent concept of sustainable building. For promoting this positive tendency, it was imperative to establish a network encompassing all passive houses built in Austria.
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Objectives The objective was to use this unique network for presenting 80% of all passive houses built in Austria as successful examples of sustainable building. This platform for expert planners, developers, trades and opinion leaders is used to broaden knowledge about passive house standards, different types of buildings and uses, types of construction, services and technical equipment concepts and architectural solutions demonstrated in already built projects. Experiences, developments and the assessability of the number of buildings constructed and tendencies for the next few years are opened to the general public in all federal provinces.
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Processing method The central online database was used as the management tool focussing exclusively on the passive house for entering and managing data gathered from all over Austria via a uniform data entry mask. The user can select permanently updated buildings with targeted search criteria and gets various evaluations in the form of charts and diagrams. With this, maximum market diffusion should help to rapidly disseminate information about the passive house.
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Data The criterion for including passive houses in the joint project of IG Passivhaus is that they fulfil aptitude requirements as passive houses according to the Passivhaus Institut Darmstadt! The clear definition of a passive house safeguards the high quality of documentation as a scientific database and makes a significant contribution to raise the general awareness of the high quality standard. Buildings are subdivided into five categories: Category "Passive house residential buildings with a heating load < 10 W/m²"
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Results Due to the broad basis of cooperation in capturing planned and built passive houses in Austria all substantial data of a total of 203 passive houses with more than 1000 residential units were gathered, documented and put online as of February 29, 2004.
The passive house database is currently visited by an average of 350 users per day on the three websites: www.hausderzukunft.at/projekte/1000 passive houses, www.igpassivhaus.at/passiv-objekte and www.passivehouse.at/Objektdatenbank
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Evaluation of the 203 buildings documented so far:
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Download 1000 Passivhäuser in Österreich Schriftenreihe 06/2004 G. Lang Downloads zur Publikation Die Schriftenreihe "Berichte aus Energie- und Umweltforschung" des BMVIT dient der Veröffentlichung von neuen, ausführlichen Expertisen, Forschungsergebnissen und Tagungsbänden aus dem Bereich nachhaltiger Energie- und Umwelttechnologien. |
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Project partners Project manager: Ing. Günter Lang Partners:
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Contact Ing. Günter Lang |
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