On our way to Wup­per­tal...

we have now made great pro­gress! Most re­cently, we were able to suc­cess­fully hold our on­line Ad­vis­ory Board meet­ing. This year, a 35-mem­ber Ad­vis­ory Board is in­volved in the pro­cess. We were able to wel­come in­ter­na­tion­al plan­ners and ad­visors as well as long-time sup­port­ers. Nu­mer­ous rep­res­ent­at­ives of re­gion­al sup­port­ers, such as the Min­istry of Eco­nom­ics of the State of North Rhine-West­phalia, which is the pat­ron and co-or­gan­iser of the con­fer­ence, also par­ti­cip­ated in­tens­ively in the eval­u­ation of the con­fer­ence con­tri­bu­tions.

The ap­prox­im­ately 240 con­tri­bu­tions re­ceived were dis­cussed and eval­u­ated in­di­vidu­ally and now form the basis for the pro­gramme of the 25th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce in Wup­per­tal. Ac­cord­ing to the un­an­im­ous feed­back of the Ad­vis­ory Board mem­bers, the out­stand­ing qual­ity of many of the con­tri­bu­tions sub­mit­ted this year was very pos­it­ive. You can look for­ward to in­form­at­ive and ex­cit­ing lec­tures at the Pass­ive House Con­fer­ence.

Once again this year, there are top­ics that have gen­er­ated a par­tic­u­larly large num­ber of sub­mis­sions and are there­fore of above-av­er­age in­terest to those in­volved. On the one hand, these are again in­ter­est­ing con­tri­bu­tions on lar­ger pro­jects such as non-res­id­en­tial build­ings or multi-storey res­id­en­tial con­struc­tions built in Pass­ive House Stand­ard. On the oth­er hand, prac­ti­tion­ers are in­creas­ingly con­cerned with either ad­di­tion­al sus­tain­ab­il­ity as­pects or eco­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­als for Pass­ive Houses or En­erPHit mod­ern­isa­tions. They also deal with solu­tions for pre­fab­ric­ated con­struc­tion and renov­a­tion con­cepts for highly ef­fi­cient new build pro­jects and renov­a­tions. An im­port­ant part of the solu­tions is also the train­ing and know­ledge trans­fer for cur­rent and fu­ture plan­ning and con­struc­tion staff, but also the suc­cess­ful com­mu­nic­a­tion of the Pass­ive House prin­ciples to loc­al au­thor­it­ies or build­ing own­ers.

Many solu­tions and strategies with re­quire­ments for a whole range of tar­get groups have been de­veloped here, many pos­it­ive ex­amples that are look­ing for im­it­at­ors - on the way to es­tab­lish­ing the Pass­ive House Stand­ard in all areas!

Let's do it!
 

The pro­gramme for the 25th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­ence will be com­piled in the com­ing weeks and pub­lished here at the end of April 2021.