Cli­mate pro­tec­tion and so­cial justice

Highly en­ergy-ef­fi­cient build­ings are not only good for cli­mate pro­tec­tion but also a basis for af­ford­able hous­ing and so­cial justice.

At the 25th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce, Marc Grossk­los from the In­sti­tu­te for Hous­ing and the En­vir­on­ment (IWU) will present op­er­at­ing ex­per­i­en­ces with an im­press­ive pro­ject in so­cial hous­ing: Passivhaus­Sozi­alPlus in Darm­stadt in­cludes two houses, a build­ing mod­ern­ized with Pass­ive House com­pon­ents and a new build­ing in the Pass­ive House Stand­ard. The aim of the pro­ject was to com­bine fa­vor­able rents and low an­cil­lary costs. To achieve this, en­ergy-ef­fi­cient kit­chen ap­pli­ances, LED light­ing and a gray wa­ter sys­tem were in­stalled, among oth­er things. The build­ings also have photo­vol­ta­ic sys­tems and bat­tery stor­age. Ser­vice charges are billed on a flat-rate basis. Also what is in­ter­est­ing is that the res­id­ents can see on dis­plays in their apart­ments how much of their budgets for drink­ing wa­ter and house­hold elec­tri­city they have already used. 
The Passivhaus­Sozi­alPlus in Darm­stadt im­press­ively de­mon­strates that cli­mate pro­tec­tion and so­cial con­cerns can be well har­mon­ized. The de­tails of the pro­ject in ses­sion 3 will be avail­able on Fri­day, Septem­ber 10, 2021. 

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