During the meeting in Manchester 2019 we talked about how to reduce waste in our daily life and in our homes. Corin from OpenKitchen showed us a campaign to make Manchester plastic free. The PlasticFreeGM campaign is delivered by the...
Different UE countries adopted different strategies to reach targets of sustainability, to reduce environmental pollution and to promote energy saving. During the meeting in Darmstadt Prof. Sebastian Fiedler shows what can Gewoba contribute to the global climate protection activities, which...
Monitoring it's a key topic to understand whether a building is working properly and users behave in the correct way. In order to have some inputs about this topic a lecture from Passive House institute was presented in Darmstadt. The...
During the meeting in Darmstadt 2018 we talked about sustainable mobility strategies. The discussion aimed to examine the differences in different EU countries, taking into account the specific situation of the housing social sector. The general feeling is that car...
Several studies demonstrate the importance of user behavior in buildings energy efficiency. In our group we already focused on how it influences the summer comfort in residential buildings. This means that there is a “credibility gap” between expected energy performance...
During the development of a social housing project we have to face with different users needs, that can influence the design process, but we also have to consider some overall problems: the importance of sustainability, CO2 emissions, low cost in...
Summer comfort is no longer an exclusive problem of Mediterranean region, but now affects also northern Europe. For this reason the topic is assuming big interest for the topic group. This problem is more perceived in the European social housing...
For the topic group the aspect about “how to measure sustainability” it’s a key issue. Several different sustainable labelling systems are available (LEED, BREEM, etc.). In Bremen in 2017 the DGNB sustainability labelling was presented. There was a focus on...
How to finance the deep renovation of buildings is a key topic for social housing sector. In some countries (such as Italy) it’s not even possible to have a proper “payback time” evaluation due to the problem of split benefits:...
The design book is a guide for an overall design project, that split the whole design process into different steps to make the process easier to be applied and to communicate. This book does not only supply the instructions to...
