Register for Study visits:
Please state in you registration (in the free text column/ anteckningsfält) if you want to participate in the study visits. Chooe from the following options:

1. FULL DAY

NO SEATS LEFT

2. 2/3 DAY

NO SEATS LEFT

3. HALF DAY (no lunch), EnBo and Brogården

OBS. All alternatives are included in the conference fee.

For further information regarding the study visits, please contact
Mia Johansson at Passivhuscentrum.

Buses will depart from the congress hall in the morning of Monday the 29:th April and will travel along various routes to visit the following exhibition and passive house buildings:

 
EnBo09 - Energy and housing fair in Alingsås
EnBo09 is Sweden´s largest fair for energy efficient construction. Building companies, municipalities, manufacturers and distributors will meet in Alingsås for a week (23-30 April 2009) to exhibit energy efficient products. All will have a common focus on renewable energy, sustainability and ecological awareness.

 
The Harbour House (Hamnhuset), Göteborg
The Harbour House, with its 115 apartments, is the largest apartment complex in Sweden that has been constructed with passive house technology. The site contains two four to five storey apartment blocks arranged around an open courtyard. The apartments are rented and tenants moved in during the summer of 2008. Since the Harbour House is a passive house, no conventional heating system has been installed, which is also the case in the other projects below. Thanks to its well insulated and tightly sealed shell, the building will be able to manage for most of the time on the heat generated in the households, and which is recycled by a heat exchanger. The Harbour House uses a central, rotating heat exchanger, with district heating as a supplement for the few days a year when this is needed. Solar panels supply the hot water requirement during the summer months, and in winter district heating with environmentally certified electricity is used.

 
Brf Ängared, Lerum
Brf Ängared is a small cooperative housing society, consisting of 4 apartments in a 2.5 storey passive house in Tollered in Lerum Municipality. The apartments have been provided with an efficient counter flow heat exchange installation and solar panels for hot water, which are expected to produce 40% of the hot water requirement. The gas stoves in the kitchens have been prepared for using biogas. Small stoves with fresh air ventilation are used to reduce the need for electricity during the coldest part of the year, and to allow the building to be ventilated and heated during power cuts. The apartments were ready for tenants to move in during the spring of 2008.

   
The Eksluttingen quarter in Alingsås
Alingsås´ municipal housing company, AB Alingsåshem, constructed 32 energy efficient rented apartments in 2008 in the new Stadsskogen area. The apartments are located in three different buildings consisting of three floors, plus penthouses and a semi-basement for one of the buildings which is on a sloping site. The apartments were ready to move into in December 2008. A counter flow heat exchanger is installed in each apartment, with district heating as a supplement if needed.

 
Brogården, Alingsås
Alingsåshem´s million-dwelling programme area*, Brogården, which was built in the early 1970s, has been the subject of a renovation project that started in February 2008, using passive house technology. They started with 18 apartments, which were ready for re-occupation in February 2009, and continue to work on the remaining 280 apartments. A counter flow heat exchanger has been installed in each apartment, with district heating as a supplement if needed. Alingsåshem will also invest in a solar panel installation that is connected to the district heating network.

 
Stadsskogen pre-school, Alingsås
About 100 children moved into the new pre-school in Alingsås´ new neighbourhood, Stadsskogen, during the summer of 2008. The building has 937 m2 of floor space and houses 5 groups. A rotating heat exchanger is used for the whole building, with a supplement from the district heating network on the coldest Monday mornings in the winter. The pre-school is the first of its kind in Sweden, that is constructed using passive house technology. Erecting commercial premises that use passive house technology is different to building residential property, since much more ventilation is needed in these buildings.

* The million-dwelling program was a crash programme between 1965 and 1975, where a million housing units were built to solve an acute housing crisis, mainly caused by rapid urbanisation.