Highlighted Case September 2016 The first Passive House certified renovation in Greece
The existing building, a typical 1960´s Athens single-family house, was selected for a full refurbishment using Passivhaus standards. The bearing structure was...
Highlighted Case August 2016 Vallda Heberg is a residential area in Sweden where all of the buildings are designed, built and certified according to the Swedish passive house standard. The national standard includes specific construction elements in the building...
Highlighted Case July 2016 The Reutershagen schools; Europaschule Gymnasium Reutershagen secondary school and the Grundschule Reutershagen Nordwindkinner primary school have been grouped together in one educational center. The pupils are now taught in one centrally...
Highlighted Case February 2017 The project consists of an energy refurbishment in a social housing block containing 30 dwellings built between the 1950’s and 60’s and located in the neighborhood of Zaramaga in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
The owner´s housing association,...
Highlighted Case January 2017 The Edge is located in ZuidAs, Amsterdam and is currently considered the greenest building in the world, according to the BREEAM green building certification scheme. The building has been given the highest sustainability score ever...
Highlighted Case June 2016 The Habitat Social Positif - HSP (Positive Social Housing project), which is comprised of two row houses T3 and T4, forms part of a sustainable development project which has brought together various sectors on different levels: the...
Highlighted Case May 2016 ETHOS is a medium sized building having a very low annual energy consumption and is suitable for a targeted audience of families with modest financial resources. It represents a test pilot for real estate projects within the entire...
Highlighted Case April 2016
The architectural concept was to design a simple sustainable house having two storeys and integrating this house into a special location: a mature forest in the heart of Suceava.
The building has been developed discreetly around an...
Highlighted Case March 2016 The LUCIA building of the University of Valladolid is considered a Zero CO2 emissions and Zero Energy Building due to its strategies in passive and bioclimatic design to reduce energy demand in maintenance as well as only using on-site...
Highlighted Case February 2016 House Of Energy: world’s first building with Passive House Premium certification opens a new opportunity beyond green construction
The House of Energy is one of the world’s most sustainable buildings. This three-storey...
Highlighted Case January 2016 To accommodate the growing number of students attending the St. Leonard School built in 1964, the school was expanded and modernized. In 2010, the site has also incorporated a kindergarten, an after-school club and a public library.
The...
Highlighted Case December 2015
The new innovative and eco-designed Refuge du Goûter is located at 3,835 meters altitude. The building is 1000 m below the summit of Mont-Blanc and is on one of the most frequented mountain climbing routes in the area. It is one of the...
Highlighted Case November 2015 Experts from the Welsh School of Architecture (Cardiff University) have designed and built Wales’ first low-cost energy positive house. The "Smart Operation for a Low Carbon Energy Region" (SOLCER) House is capable of exporting more energy...
Highlighted Case October 2015 Main entrance of the supermarketA new type of shop has been developed on an organic farm which aims to increase customer satisfaction by offering a comprehensive range of sustainable products in a healthy and sustainable...
Highlighted Case September 2015 Green Lighthouse is Denmark’s first public carbon-neutral building. The building has been built in less than a year in a close public/private partnership.It is a round, sculptural building with high ceilings and an open, spacious...
Highlighted Case August 2015 Project summaryThe case study of this PlusEnergy renovated building has been proposed as a practical and innovative approach to use as a potential solution for retrofitting the huge quantity of existing post-war...
Highlighted Case July 2015 REEFLEX is an international student residence that combines residential living as well as hotel accommodation. This unique concept meets the housing needs for students who require a short or medium stay (a few nights or months) such as...
Highlighted Case June 2015
The Nu-Office complex is comprised of 3 separate new buildings located in Domagkstrasse (Schwabing North, adjacent to Park City Schwabing) in Munich. They have been constructed using "Sustainable Building" standards in which essential...
Highlighted Case May 2015 Project summarySituated in Hamburg, Germany (Am Inselpark, 17), the "building with Bio-Intelligent Quotient" (BIQ ) is the first algae powered building in the world. BIQ is a cubic, five-storey passive house with two...
Highlighted Case April 2015 Project summaryThree multi-family houses built between 1949 and 1957 have been modernised and given an energy efficient retrofit with the aim of achieving a CO2-neutral heat supply. The urban densification of the existing...