SOLTRAIN
The overall goal of this southern African regional project is to contribute to the switch from a fossil fuel based energy supply to a sustainable energy supply system based on renewable energies. This should be achieved by building up training capacities in the participating countries in the field of solar thermal technology and the improvement […]
PEP – Promotion of European Passive Houses
Ziele und Inhalte: Ziel des Projektes PEP war es, den Marktanteil von Passivhäusern deutlich zu steigern. Österreich konnte als einer der Themenführer in diesem Bereich dazu einen wesentlichen Beitrag leisten. Dies passierte durch Know-How-Transfer in die neuen europäischen Passivhaus-Märkte, sowie durch gezielte Aktivitäten in Österreich. Besonderes Augenmerk wurde dabei auf die Nutzung von Synergieeffekten mit […]
IEA – ECBCS Annex 50 – Prefabricated Systems for Low Energy Renovation of Residential Buildings
A really conservation of energy is only in existing buildings possible. The fraction of the total energy consumption for new buildings is in most of the industrial countries only about 10-20%. 80% is allotted to the existing buildings. The topic “sustainable retrofit for residential buildings” is for this reason also of high importance in a […]
NZEB – Towards Net Zero Energy Solar Buildings
The “Net Zero” – Option While “net zero” or “plus-energy” concepts are already widely used for marketing purposes all over the world an international harmonized definition and methodology is missing. A key issue is the (superficial) simplicity of the concept, which turns to be a big challenge: The first strategy is to reduce energy demand […]
KeepCool II – Transforming the market from “cooling” to “sustainable summer comfort”
Das Vorgängerprojekt „KeepCool“ fokussierte besonders auf nachhaltige Kühltechnologien und die Beschreibung von „Best Practice Beispielen für Bürobauten und andere öffentliche Gebäude. Das Nachfolgeprojekt „KeepCool II“ wird die Inhalte und Erfahrungen aus dem ersten Projekt erweiten. Das heißt, die Hauptschwerpunkte des Projektes liegen in den Verbreitungsaktivitäten, das bestehende Material zu überarbeiten und zu erweitern und gute […]
CombiSol
As the market share of combisystems is increasing in most of the European countries but is nevertheless quite small, CombiSol will encourage an accelerated growth in the share of heat produced by solar energy and will promote the quality increase, by tackling some non-technological barriers, thanks to:
Ecological Building Retrofit Conference 2007
TeilnehmerInnen aus folgenden Nationen konnten begrüßt werden: Belgien, Dänemark, Deutschland, Estland, Finnland, Frankreich, Italien, Luxemburg, Montenegro, Niederlande, Österreich, Polen, Portugal, Schweden, Schweiz, Slowenien, Tschechische Republik Innerhalb der drei Tage spannte sich der inhaltliche Bogen zum Thema „Gebäude-Modernisierung“ von aktuellsten Aktivitäten auf Bundes- und Landesebene, über neueste technische Entwicklungen bis hin zu Vor-Ort-Besichtigungen von vorbildlich renovierten […]
Solar Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration IEA SHC Task 38
A further goal is to spread the research and development results to the users and industry within short, in order to implement the results on the market. The work of the task is divided into four subtasks. Subtask A: Pre-engineered systems for residential and small commercial applications Within the framework of this subtask, pre-engineered systems […]
Solar Combi+
The combined use of solar energy for heating and cooling has the potential to upgrade solar thermal energy from a mainly domestic hot water provider to a major building energy supplier. Up to now the necessary sorption chillers were only available in a higher power range (>100 kW). The new small-scale sorption chillers will open […]
New Energy for Old Buildings
New4Old promoted the integration of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies into historic buildings, and initiated the creation of a network of Renewable Energy Houses in the different Member States of the European Union. Different approaches were proposed with the ultimate objective to reduce energy demand and the use of fossil fuels in Europe’s buildings, […]