Build­ing Tours

Vis­it ex­cit­ing Pass­ive House pro­jects in Es­sen and the sur­round­ing re­gion!

The build­ing tours on Sunday, 26 April 2026, will be offered in Ger­man with spon­tan­eous con­sec­ut­ive trans­la­tion in­to Eng­lish. The tick­ets in­clude lunch and the bus trans­fer to the ex­cur­sion sites and back to the meet­ing point in Es­sen (or to the nearest cent­ral sta­tion, see be­low).

Please note that at this point, there may still be changes to the sched­ule or con­tent.

 

De­scrip­tion

Time

Price

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 second school/nurs­ery pro­ject will be con­firmed shortly.

  • The third school/nurs­ery pro­ject will be con­firmed shortly.

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 (* city to be con­firmed as this de­pends on the fi­nal con­firm­a­tion of the last pro­ject site).

The tour fly­er will be pub­lished here shortly.

9.00 am - 6.00 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 third res­id­en­tial pro­ject will be con­firmed shortly.

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


 

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