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Field of activity: "Environment":
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Topic:
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Renovation of Old Buildings According to Low-Energy House Standards
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City: |
Münster |
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Field of activity: |
Precautionary Environmental Protection
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Project description:
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This pilot project has two main objectives: one is to carry out the renovation
of historic buildings accomplishing a low-energy standard for the particular
object. The other objective is to communicate the benefits, experiences and
chances of such a renovation project, particularly for private owners or builders, as the
central groups in question.
Houses for one, resp. two, families built after the Second World War
were taken into consideration as potential buildings for renovation. The focal
point of the project was not to reproduce the well known type of low-energy
house technology, but their target group specific application for private owners,
craftsmen, housing associations, architects etc. The owners and tenants of
dwellings erected from the end of the 1950's to the beginning of the 1970's
will be integrated in the communication concepts. This will include those
buildings which need renovating, particularly as far as the insulation and
heating is concerned. This was one of the reasons for choosing the building in
the "Stadtgraben" as an object for renovation. The building is
centrally situated in the city and in the direct vicinity of a school,
providing a good choice for supporting the multiplication oriented objectives
of this project.
The central question of refurbishment was how to modernise a house with an
existing facade of bricks which have to be preserved because of the
preservation by-laws for the historic centre.
The low-energy-house-standard was roughly achieved even though finally only
the west facade could be refurbished. The following elements were part of the
realized refurbishment which was terminated at the end of 1993: the heating
installation, the air ventilation, the ceilings of the cellar and the first
floor, the walls of the staircare and the installation of a solar system.
In spring 2000 several transfer workshopshave been carried out.
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Current status: |
The project is terminated,
a final report is available.
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Interactivity: |
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Contact: |
Birgit Wildt, tel. +49-251-492-6703, Office of
the Environment
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Contractors: |
Institute for Low-Energy Bros., Detmold; Architect Grahl, Münster
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Duration: |
1998 - 2000 |
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