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Passive House district
The Passive House district is a planned large urban area designed with the principles of Passive House standard. Passive House district has approved that larger scale district can also reach high energy efficiency and sustainability.
district PH
districtPH is used to create energy balances for neighborhoods, from smaller groups of buildings up to whole districts. A specific strength of the tool is the ability to investigate the effects that different scenarios of development and retrofitting have for the building stock. The analysis takes into account grids for electricity and heat, renewable energies, electromobility and public consumers. Read more here
A report describing the methodology of districtPH and explaining an example application can be downloaded. For further information please contact districtph@passiv.de
Built examples
Passive House district Heidelberg-Bahnstadt
The Bahnstadt district in Heidelberg, Germany is one of the largest sustainable urban development projects in Germany and the largest Passive House settlement worldwide at present. Find out more about Heidelberg-Bahnstadt in the following articels and report:
Passive House district Heidelberg-Bahnstadt in the eyes of its residents
Passive House City District Heidelberg-Bahnstadt - Experience and Evaluation
Monitoring energy consumption in the new district Bahnstadt in Heidelberg