The New House of the Region of Hannover: Using EPBD-strategies to improve energy efficiency in the building lifecycle

STEFAN PLESSER; ERNESTO KUCHEN; M. NORBERT FISCH

Frankfurt am Main

Congreso; IEECB, Frankfurt 2008; 2008

Messe Frankfurt in cooperation with the European Commission DG JRC, Ispra, Italy

The “New House of the Region of Hannover“ (NRH) is the first building in Germanythat has been built according to the Standard „EnOB - Energieoptimiertes Bauen“(„Energy optimized building“) as defined by the German Ministry of Economics andTechnology within a Public Private Partnership.This paper is elaborated in a research project on commissioning, operation andmonitoring of the building carried out by the Institute of Building Services and EnergyDesign at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the University of Magdeburg.This paper documents• The integration of energy efficiency in the PPP competition brief using EBPDstrategies,• The design competition and construction, and• Commissioning and monitoring results of the first year of building operation.The combination of a public private partnership for design, construction and financingwith ambitious target values for energy efficiency is supposed to demonstrate thepossibility of energy efficient buildings at low cost in a very competitive marketsituation. The results of 2007 show that the major goals for energy efficiency havebeen achieved. Figure 1 shows the front elevation of the building with themultifunctional copper-clad conference room next to the entrance.