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TOUR 1:

Schools / nurs­eries

Dur­ing this tour, you will get valu­able tips and tricks for the best pos­sible im­ple­ment­a­tion of highly en­ergy-ef­fi­cient edu­ca­tion­al fa­cil­it­ies (new build & ret­ro­fit):

• The new primary school in Es­sen's Moltke dis­trict is cur­rently be­ing built as a new con­struc­tion with­in an ex­ist­ing build­ing of the former fed­er­al bank. The ex­tern­al struc­ture of the old build­ing can re­main in place and will be giv­en a new façade. The primary school will be de­signed ac­cord­ing to the so-called "cluster prin­ciple". This means that the build­ing will be di­vided in­to dif­fer­ent "areas" to en­able joint learn­ing, sup­port, play and re­lax­a­tion re­spect­ively.

• The mod­u­lar nurs­ery school on Kley­er Weg in Dortmund has space for 75 chil­dren. Thanks to floor-to-ceil­ing win­dows, plenty of sun­light floods in­to the four group rooms of this Pass­ive House. Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion­al phase, the build­ing is ex­pec­ted to gen­er­ate more en­ergy than it con­sumes. The PHPP cal­cu­la­tion was ex­pan­ded to in­clude a life cycle ana­lys­is which states that the build­ing will be cli­mate pos­it­ive over the next 50 years. The build­ing fea­tures sus­tain­able ma­ter­i­als, a photo­vol­ta­ic sys­tem and green façades.

• The "Ker­chen­stein­er" primary school is the first school in Dortmund to be con­struc­ted en­tirely from tim­ber. A mod­ern ped­ago­gic­al room concept di­vides the space in­to work rooms and "spe­cial­ised rooms" which are all grouped around a centre that can be used flex­ibly. Thanks to the very low en­ergy de­mand, a heat pump provides 98% of the heat­ing en­ergy re­quired. The new con­struc­tion pro­ject was awar­ded the title of "En­ergy-ef­fi­cient non-res­id­en­tial build­ing in North Rhine-West­phalia".

You de­cide for your­self wheth­er you would like to end the tour at our meet­ing point in Es­sen or if the bus driver should drop you off at Dortmund Cent­ral Sta­tion 50 minutes eali­er.

The tour fly­er will be pub­lished here shortly.

9.00 am - 5.30 pm

€99

TOUR 2:

En­ergy-ef­fi­cient homes in Es­sen - Bo­chum - Dortmund

Join us on this var­ied tour and dis­cov­er ex­em­plary hous­ing pro­jects in the cit­ies of Es­sen, Bo­chum and Dortmund (new builds):

• The multi-gen­er­a­tion­al hous­ing com­plex in Es­sen con­sists of 25 res­id­en­tial units with shared com­mun­al areas, co-work­ing spaces and guest apart­ments. All flats are ac­cess­ible. There is a sol­ar thermal and a photo­vol­ta­ic sys­tem on the roof. One third of the flats were built as part of a so­cial hous­ing pro­ject.

• The stu­dent res­id­en­ce, de­signed as a mod­u­lar sys­tem, is con­struc­ted us­ing a hy­brid sys­tem of precast con­crete columns, sur­face-flush steel beams and wide-span prestressed con­crete hol­low core slabs with few sup­ports, which al­lows for very flex­ible floor plans. There is cur­rently space for 258 stu­dents in single, double and quad­ruple shared flats. The ex­ter­i­or walls were de­signed as tim­ber pan­el walls with a par­tic­u­larly high de­gree of pre­fab­ric­a­tion. In ad­di­tion to the win­dows and the com­plete façade clad­ding, the ne­ces­sary in­stall­a­tions for the de­cent­ral­ised vent­il­a­tion sys­tem were also car­ried out at the fact­ory. This re­duced the con­struc­tion time by ap­prox­im­ately 10 months.

• The new con­struc­tion pro­ject in Dortmund, which has been awar­ded the "KlimaQuart­i­er NRW" (Cli­mate-friendly dis­trict in North Rhine-West­phalia) la­bel, con­sists of four mono­lith­ic multi-fam­ily houses and an ex­clus­ive res­id­en­tial build­ing for 15 young adults with dis­ab­il­it­ies. The build­ings are heated with air-to-wa­ter heat pumps. Photo­vol­ta­ic sys­tems sup­ply the res­id­ents with elec­tri­city fol­low­ing the ten­ant elec­tri­city mod­el. As the neigh­bour­hood has only one com­mun­al elec­tri­city con­nec­tion, the PV elec­tri­city can be used by all res­id­ents, re­gard­less of which roof it was gen­er­ated on.

You de­cide for your­self wheth­er you would like to end the tour at our meet­ing point in Es­sen or if the bus driver should drop you off at Dortmund Cent­ral Sta­tion about 50 minutes earli­er.

The tour fly­er will be pub­lished here shortly.

9.00 am - 5.45 pm

€99

TOUR 3:

Dis­tricts in Co­logne / Düs­sel­dorf

On this tour, we will vis­it fu­ture-proof neigh­bour­hoods in Co­logne and Düs­sel­dorf (new build & ret­ro­fit):

• The ‘Lön­sied­lung’ neigh­bour­hood (14,000 m², built in 1937) is cur­rently un­der­go­ing seri­al ren­ov­a­tion. Dur­ing the ret­ro­fit, the res­id­ents are al­lowed to stay in their homes. The es­tate con­sists mainly of four-party houses. Thanks to a new, highly in­su­lated build­ing en­vel­ope made of pre­fab­ric­ated tim­ber façade ele­ments in­clud­ing triple-glazed win­dows, vent­il­a­tion with heat re­cov­ery and sun pro­tec­tion, these houses are now ex­pec­ted to jump from build­ing ef­fi­ciency class H to A+.

• The co­op­er­at­ive hous­ing pro­ject ‘Cli­mate Pro­tec­tion Neigh­bour­hood Tria­log Hilden’ com­prises 28 ac­cess­ible flats built to the Pass­ive House stand­ard (new build). The tim­ber-frame build­ing fea­tures a green roof, a photo­vol­ta­ic sys­tem in­clud­ing bat­tery stor­age and a rain­wa­ter cistern.

• In Co­logne, two Low En­ergy Build­ings with Pass­ive House com­pon­ents with a total of 17 res­id­en­tial units and an un­der­ground car park were con­struc­ted us­ing a mono­lith­ic con­struc­tion meth­od. The façade is roun­ded at the corners and clad with a skin of pro­filed brick slips. An­oth­er spe­cial fea­ture: sun pro­tec­tion is provided by charm­ing fold­ing shut­ters which com­pletely cov­er the win­dows while still leav­ing space for win­dow boxes (Database ID 7610).

You de­cide for your­self wheth­er you would like to end the tour at our meet­ing point in Es­sen or if the bus driver should drop you off at Co­logne Cent­ral Sta­tion about 70 minutes earli­er.

The tour fly­er will be pub­lished here shortly.

9.00 am - 6.15 pm

€99

TOUR 4:

En­ergy-ef­fi­cient homes in Co­logne

Look for­ward to vis­it­ing three ex­cit­ing res­id­en­tial pro­jects in Co­logne (new build & ret­ro­fit):

• The highly en­ergy-ef­fi­cient 11-unit new build is char­ac­ter­ised above all by its com­plex mix of dif­fer­ent apart­ment types (single-per­son flats, me­di­um-sized flats, large fam­ily flats, co-hous­ing flats). Due to the mono­lith­ic con­struc­tion meth­od (49 cm thick brick walls), the build­ing meets the Pass­ive House stand­ard even without ex­tern­al thermal in­su­la­tion (Database ID 7608).

• The co­op­er­at­ive res­id­en­tial build­ing from 1961 un­der­went seri­al ren­ov­a­tion to the Pass­ive House Plus stand­ard. Due to the very am­bi­tious time­frame and the de­sire to min­im­ise the im­pact on the ten­ants, pre­fab­ric­ated, highly thermally in­su­lat­ing façade and roof ele­ments as well as façade-in­teg­rated vent­il­a­tion with heat re­cov­ery were used (Database ID 7540). The pro­ject was awar­ded the "KlimaQuart­i­er NRW" (Cli­mate-friendly dis­trict in North Rhine-West­phalia) la­bel.

• Build­ing on the ex­per­i­en­ce gained from the second pro­ject in this build­ing tour, two fur­ther five-storey res­id­en­tial build­ings dat­ing from 1972 were ret­ro­fit­ted with pre­fab­ric­ated ele­ments. They are now also part of the "KlimaQuart­i­er NRW" (Cli­mate-friendly dis­trict in North Rhine-West­phalia). A few as­pects were im­ple­men­ted dif­fer­ently here: For ex­ample, the vent­il­a­tion sys­tems (one per flat) are loc­ated in the stair­wells. In ad­di­tion, the flat roof was con­ver­ted in­to a mansard roof with op­tim­al ori­ent­a­tion for the PV mod­ules, and the log­gi­as are now part of the thermal en­vel­ope.

You de­cide for your­self wheth­er you would like to end the tour at our meet­ing point in Es­sen or if the bus driver should drop you off at Co­logne Cent­ral Sta­tion about 70 minutes earli­er.

The tour fly­er will be pub­lished here shortly.

9.00 am - 6.00 pm

€99