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05/03/2016 13:56

Successfully implementing plus energy on housing estates

Rüdiger Mack Marketingkommunikation
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH

    The future belongs to buildings that will produce more energy than they consume over the course of the year. This concept is known as energy-plus construction. A newly-built housing estate in Landshut, Bavaria, has been erected in accordance with this standard and then accompanied by scientific studies. The BINE Projektinfo brochure “Energy-plus concept tested on housing estate” (01/2016) presents the first results of the monitoring, the survey of residents and operational optimisation of the building technology.

    Involving residents and sensitively regulating building technology

    The housing estate consists of 180 dwellings distributed over 13 single-family homes and semi-detached houses and eight apartment buildings. As well as very well insulated building shells, the planners also used innovative building technology in order to meet the energy-plus standard. The heat supply is taken, depending on the building size, from a heating network with a combined heat and power plant and a buffer storage facility with a capacity of 10,000 litres, or ground source heat pumps combined with underfloor heating. The buildings have ventilation systems with heat recovery. The roofs are for a large part fitted with photovoltaic plants and the electricity surpluses not required on site is fed into the grid. During the monitoring phase, the scientists studied resident behaviour in terms of the way they used the innovative technology, and determined attitudes towards energy saving. They also offered an online platform to visualise consumption values.

    One result of the studies is that the residents regard saving electricity as being more important than saving heat. Furthermore, it could be ascertained that the rebound effect is a major influence over energy consumption. This means that new, energy-efficient systems cannot fully exploit the savings effects that are technically possible because the users use them more frequently or for longer periods due to their obvious efficiency than the technology to which they have been accustomed to date. The accompanying scientific studies and optimisation of operations were conducted jointly by the Munich University of Applied Sciences and Dresden Technical University.

    You found all informations about the BINE Projektinfo brochure “Energy-plus concept tested on housing estate” (01/2016) here:

    http://www.bine.info/en/publications/publikation/plusenergie-konzept-in-siedlung...

    Uwe Milles/Birgit Schneider
    presse(at)bine.info

    About BINE Information Service

    Energy research for practical applications

    The BINE Information Service reports on energy research topics, such as new materials, systems and components, as well as innovative concepts and methods. The knowledge gained is incorporated into the implementation of new technologies in practice, because first-rate information provides a basis for pioneering decisions, whether in the planning of energy-optimised buildings, increasing the efficiency of industrial processes, or integrating renewable energy sources into existing systems.

    About FIZ Karlsruhe

    FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure is a not-for-profit organization with the public mission to make sci-tech information from all over the world publicly available and to provide related services in order to support the national and international transfer of knowledge and the promotion of innovation.
    Our business areas:
    • STN International – the world’s leading online service for research and patent information in science and technology
    • KnowEsis – innovative eScience solutions to support the process of research in all its stages, and throughout all scientific disciplines
    • Databases and Information Services – Databases and science portals in mathematics, computer science, crystallography, chemistry, and energy technology
    FIZ Karlsruhe is a member of the Leibniz Association (WGL) which consists of 87 German research and infrastructure institutions.


    More information:

    http://www.bine.info/en - BINE Informationsdienst


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    The BINE Projektinfo brochure “Energy-plus concept tested on housing estate”


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