Passive House

Project: a Factory as a Passive House
	The Project The new SurTec building in Zwingenberg is part of a publicly promoted project of the Federal Ministry for Economics, represented by its project agency BEO - Biology, Energy, Ecology, located in the research center Juelich. In this project, the entire planning and the scientific research program are promoted, however not the material as for instance special building materials, thicker insulation, special glasses, vacuum-dammed doors etc.. It concerns a subrange of the 4. program Energy Research and Energy Technology Explanations for the program: The Federal Government committed itself repeatedly to reduce the energy related emissions of the greenhous gas carbon dioxide until the year 2005 by 25 % in comparison to 1990. Against this background, it is a priority target of the research promotion in the energy region to create the necessary prerequisites in order to develop and supply all technologies and options necessary from today's view, which can contribute to a lasting decrease of the energy-conditioned environmental and climatic loads. In addition, it is a further target of the energy research program to make a contribution for the modernization of the national economy and to the protection of the technology location Germany and to improve the export chances in an important branch of the German economy. The following master projects belong to this program: Master Project Energy: "energy production and - storage for the peripheral and mobile application" Promotion Program "Sun in the School" (photovoltaic installations) as a part of the BMWi-program "Renewable Energies" Promotion Concept "Solaroptimized Construction" Promotion Program "Solarthermie 2000" Promotion Concept "Energetic Improvement of the Built Volumes" Explanations to the Promotion Concept "Solaroptimized Construction" This promotion concept deals with the passive solarthermic for heat gain. The research work is completed by series of larger demonstration building projects. The general objectives of the promotion concept are: predominantly to develop further - until close to be ready for the market - the technologies for future solaroptimized low-energy buildings, being already in the development to create prototypes of solaroptimized buildings, which serve for technical testing and further improvement as well as for acting as a special model with a signal effect to compile practice-suited planning aids, which permit to make the present expert knowledge accessible for a larger set of architects and engineering specialists The partial concept 3: Solaroptimized Buildings with Minimal Energy Consumption is the central part of the promotion concept. In particular, the planning of a series of prototype buildings is to be promoted as research-intensive demonstration building projects, which should, as new buildings (no private homes, at least 1000 square meter gross floor area) require less than 70 kWh/qm·a total energy (including electricity). The first building projects were started. An accompanying research project to the entire partial concept 3 analyzes the projects, documents the results and work it up for the theory at universities.
		Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Dr. Hans-Georg Bertram Projektträger BEO Postfach 1913 D-52425 Jülich Tel: +49 2461/61 48 73 Fax: +49 2461/61 31 31 eMail: h.-g.bertram@fz-juelich.de
	Links Informations on ptj and also on other projects: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ptj. A descriptive representation of the promotion concept and the accompanying project of the Fraunhofer institute for solar energy systems you'll find here on the internet page SolarBau. Information on solarly optimized buildings with minimum energy requirement from 1995 to 2005 http://www.solarbau.de/monitor/foerder/index_1.htm as well as application forms for own projects. The SurTec project is represented under http://www.solarbau.de/monitor/doku/proj09/mainproj.htm.
	A Factory as a Passive House: Tasks Factory as passive house means to carry out the concept in an industrial building. The integration of office, laboratory, production, stocks and dispatch under one climatic cover causes special demands, but enables it however to include the production process into the energetic concept. In the chemical industry air is strongly sucked off, therefore extreme requirements exist on air circulation and heat recovery. New developments among other items are: post/latch plate construction, high-thermal insulated shipping mechanism, detailed solutions for the avoidance of cold bridges, regulation of aerial engineering mechanisms, water savings concept. The project is scientifically accompanied by the Technical University Darmstadt, the Passive House Institute Darmstadt and the Fraunhofer ISE - Institute for Solar Energy Systems Freiburg.
	Project Participants Building Owner use concept; passive-house-compatible process technique, public relations SurTec GmbH Dipl.-Ing. Patricia Preikschat, Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Jammer SurTec-Strasse 2 D-64673 Zwingenberg Tel.: +49 6251/171-733 Fax: +49 6251/171-800 eMail: PP@SurTec.com Architect project manager, master planning, detail concepts and constructional supervision Atelier für Architektur und Städtebau Dipl.-Ing. Architekt Martin Zimmer Gutenbergstrasse 45 D-64289 Darmstadt Tel.: +49 6151/425729 Fax: +49 6151/423797 eMail: ArchitekturMZ@t-online.de homepage: http://home.t-online.de/home/ArchitekturMZ Building Engineering ventilation planning, energetic calculations Inplan Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Stärz Bahnhofstraße 49 D-64319 Pfungstadt Tel: +49 6157/97120 Fax: +49 6157/990117 Consultancy Measuring Techniques and Simulation Passive House Institute Dr. Wolfgang Feist Steubenplatz 12 D-64293 Darmstadt Tel.: +49 6151/82699-0 Fax: +49 6151/82699-11 Building Physics material flow balances, technical efficiency calculations University of Darmstadt, Institute for Statics Dipl.-Ing. Sabine Giebenhain Alexanderstraße 7 D-64287 Darmstadt Tel.: +49 6151/16-2537 Fax: +49 6151/16-2338 eMail: Sabine.Giebenhain@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de