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Knowledge - three themes

DESIGN PROCESS - PRODUCTS & TECHNOLOGY - PERFORMANCE & TEST

The method to drive progress towards the Active House vision is experimentation and exchange of knowledge. By means of interdisciplinary cooperation in building projects, target groups can work together and gain knowledge and experience of relevant topics which are both valuable in themselves and that at the same time lead to a clarification of the Active House vision. Such collaboration can be established by means of networking or early involvement in building projects.

Different interests are represented and they focus on different aspects - from theoretic building design and design philosophy to tests of the houses and product specifications. To meet all interests the networking and knowledge sharing will be treated in relation to three themes (or target groups) referring to the vision and the experiments.

The three targets/themes are both valuable as isolated themes and at the same time help to clarify the unity in the Active House vision.

Solar Active House - the building concept & the equipments

In this article the architect of the house Arch. Georg W. Reinberg describes the aims and the building concept as well as the equipments in the Solar Active House, which has been build...

23. March 2010
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Design process, Energy, Environment, Indoor Climate, Products and Technology
Reinberg Georg W.
A prototype of the future low energy house

Brian Edwards visits a prototype house in Denmark that suggests an alternative approach to the future lowenergy concept.

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24. January 2010
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Energy, Environment, Indoor Climate, Performance and documentation
Normann Sloth
Plus Energy House Eco Home

Bachelor project, The Engineering College of Aarhus aug 2009 - dec 2009.

7. April 2010
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Nanna Lee Thusgaard
Housing and energy in Denmark: past, present and future challenges
Research Article by: Rob Marsh, Vibeke Grupe Larsen & Mikkel Kragh.

Published in: Building Research &...

9. February 2010
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Design process, Energy, Performance and documentation
Rob Marsh
Measuring life by real people

Just imagine if the quality of our buildings was valued on their ability to improve quality of life - according to the Active House vision of buildings that give more than they take in...

23. March 2010
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Design process, Energy, Environment, Indoor Climate, Performance and documentation
Ellen Kathrine Hansen
Influence of window size on the energy balance of low energy houses

"Influence of window size on the energy balance of low energy houses" by:

21. January 2010
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Energy, Environment, Indoor Climate, Products and Technology
Normann Sloth
Services

Green Building consultancy services including:

  • - energy simulation
  • - daylight simulation
  • - rainwater harvesting simulation
  • -...
16. February 2010
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Design process, Energy, Environment, Indoor Climate, Products and Technology, Performance and documentation
Gregers Reimann
Approaches to the design of sustainable housing with low CO2 emission in Denmark

Article by: Mary-Ann Knudstrup, Hanne Tine Ring Hansen  and Camilla Brunsgaard

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29. January 2010
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Energy, Environment
Normann Sloth
Zero Energy Retrofit: Case study of a chalet in Ain-Sukhna, Egypt

This paper presents the results of combined economic and computational study of different integrated passive and active design strategies for the Red Sea Coastline of Egypt. A chalet,...

31. March 2010
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Shady Attia
Active House Alliance

In order to develop Active House to become the future vision of buildings, development of an Active House Alliance has been initiated. Companies, institutes and persons who have asked...

10. June 2010
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Kurt Emil Eriksen