Sunny research! Sustainable building design with high energy performance for a modern commercial building

Commercial buildings of basic to medium standard are hardly ever designed by a high quality of innovative building services engineering. In the project Sunny research! a sustainable building design with high energy performance was developed. The aim was to adapt the aspects of Renewable Energy, thermal comfort and wellness in work.

EXPO HdZ: Best of Diffusion

Conception and implementation of measures to spread selected results from the house of the future - program to the building industry, in particular to meet the target groups architects, builders and building developers.

Operational and maintenance costs in passive houses and low energy houses

How much energy does a passive house actually save? Does a passive house pay-off by itself? What are the costs for maintancence? For the first time an approximation for the running costs of a passive house were systematically documented and compared.

Gründerzeit with future - demonstration project 2: ROOFJET Wißgrillgasse - sustainable solution for improving the thermal-energetic performance of a typical historical building in Vienna

The main aim of the project ROOFJET Wißgrillgasse is a building refurbishment by a factor of 8 which demonstrates that even historical buildings can be refurbished to lowest energy standard.This demonstration project shows a holistic and sustainable refurbishment concept for a special type of buildings with innovative technical and organizational solutions.

Clay - Passiv Office-Building Tattendorf

The motivation for developing the project "Clay Passiv Office-Building Tattendorf" was the dissatisfaction with the situation of a great difference in the state of technology in three fields relevant to the research project: 1) sustainable production of energy , 2) sustainable energy conservation technologies and 3) use of sustainable building materials.

PEB - Plus-Energy-Office

An integrated technical energy plus office concept without additional building costs demonstrates the feasibility of such projects instancing a concrete office project with 50.000 m² floor area in Vienna with economical cost consideration.

Mechanical ventilation system for windows for the renovation of old buildings

Analysis and implementation of alternative ventilation systems for windows, focusing on thermal renovation of old buildings. The investigated ventilation systems were presented to an expert group. The aim was to discuss ventilation technologies with the help of different aspects and to develop a SWOT analysis.

Quality criteria for the Building of Tomorrow

Development and implementation of contributions to the quality control of innovative technologies in the areas of building services and insulation that are derived substantially from HAUSderZukunft findings.

Sunny Energy Building: ENERGYbase - Office building of tomorrow

Energybase is a showcase project in terms of energy efficiency and use of renewable energies realized by the Vienna business agency. With 7.500 sqm net floor area ENERGYbase provides space for innovative business and research and development on the field of green energy.

Sustainable ventilation systems in multi story residential buildings in the conflict areas of hygiene and costs

The goal of this project was to develop guidelines for hygienic and cost-efficient mechanical ventilation systems in residential buildings, in which maintenance and cleaning demands are described. These guide­lines are based on existing literature as well as practical experience of the property owners, finally they are based on results of hygienic measurements in existing ventilation systems conducted in this research project.

EnerPHit-Grünkonzept - Modernisierung eines Gründerzeitgebäudes mit Anwendung eines Aerogel-Dämmputzes

In diesem Demonstrationsvorhaben wurde eine umfassende Modernisierung im gründerzeitlichen Gebäudebestand beispielgebend für die Randbedingungen einer regionalen Schutzzone umgesetzt. Durch die Anwendung des Aerogel- Hochleistungsdämmputzes wurde eine gründerzeitliche Fassadendämmung im Rahmen einer hocheffizienten, umfassenden Sanierung bei gleichzeitiger Erhaltung des Fassadenbildes umgesetzt.

Lüftungskonzept Österreich

Ziel des Projektes ist die Schaffung eines Nachweisverfahrens (auf Basis Microsoft-Excel), welches zeigt, ob eine natürliche Lüftung bzw. Fensterlüftung bei einer Standardnutzung zur Vermeidung von Schimmelbildung ausreichend, bzw. in Hinblick auf eine ausreichende hygienische Luftqualität zumutbar ist.

The Green Parking Space – Nutzung von städtischen Verkehrsflächen für die Produktion von Biomasse

Zahlreiche Verkehrsflächen im städtischen Umfeld werden nur einen geringen Teil der Zeit tatsächlich genutzt. Inhalt dieses Projekt war, die Möglichkeit zu untersuchen, solche Flächen durch Integration von Photobioreaktoren zusätzlich zur Produktion von Biomasse zu nutzen und die Systeme möglichst vollständig in die urbanen Stoff- und Energiekreisläufe einzubinden.

greening UP! Sustainable green maintenance, maintenance, maintenance of vertical greenery including legal aspects

Based on extensive surveys and analyses of existing vertical building greenery in outdoor areas (floor and system-bound façade greening) and vertical interior greenery, the project developed tailor-made green care, maintenance and repair concepts and addresses legal aspects. The "greening UP!" Knowledge pool with concrete recommendations and clearly presented findings as well as the conception of a digital tool for the "First Green Aid" complete the project.

E.Vent – Efficient, cost-effective and low-maintenance central ventilation systems for multi-family housing – Design, operation and fire protection measures

Die Synopsis ist eine drei- bis vierzeilige Beschreibung des Projektinhalts alsErgänzung zum Titel und nähere Erläuterung des Projekts.

The Green Parking Space – Utilization of urban parking areas for production of biomass

Many traffic areas in urban environments are actually used as such only a small fraction of the time. Subject of this project was to investigate the possibility of using those areas by additional integration of photobioreactors for the production of biomass, integrating such systems to the maximum extent into the urban substance and energy cycles.

EnerPHit-green concept Modernisation of a historic building with application of an aerogel insulation plaster

This demonstration project shows the comprehensive modernization of a historic building within the constraints of a regional protection zone. By using the Aerogel high-performance insulating plaster, a comprehensive energy-efficient building refurbishment had been realized without changing the outer appearance of the façade.

SPACE4free - Retrofitting souterrain areas in 19th century townhouses to apartments with high quality of life and low energy consumption

Planning of durable and damage-free apartments with high quality of life and low energy consumption in moisture exposed souterrain areas of 19th century townhouses. Using innovative ventilation control systems comfortable room climate will be created. Additionally the tolerance of different types of use is ensured. A planning tool enables the scaling of the findings and thus the applicability to various planning situations.

CoolAIR - Prädiktiv geregelte passive Gebäudekühlung mittels natürlicher Nachtlüftung und tageslichtoptimierter Verschattung

Natürliche Nachtlüftung und tageslichtoptimierte Verschattung haben v.a. in ihrer Kombination ein hohes Potential Gebäude energieeffizient zu kühlen, werden aktuell jedoch meist nur manuell gesteuert und damit nicht optimal genutzt. Ziel ist die Entwicklung einer automatisierten und selbstlernenden Lösung, die dieses Kühlpotential voll ausgeschöpft und so eine Alternative zu Klimageräten bietet.

CoolAIR - Predictive control of natural nighttime ventilation and daylight-optimized shading for passive building cooling

Natural nighttime ventilation and daylight-optimized shadowing are high potential approaches to efficiently and economical cool buildings. Nevertheless, the full potential cannot be acquired, since, if at all, such behavior is manually initiated by users. Goal of this project is the development of an automated, self-learning system that can assess the full cooling capabilities and establish an alternative to conventional air conditioning systems.