Project insights: Research for the energy transition

New low-energy school building

Smart Green Tower becomes an energy producer

The Smart Green Tower is being built in the city of Freiburg. The 51 m high residential and commercial building will have a building envelope made of

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Residential building refurbishment

Three identical residential buildings refurbished to different energy standards

Prefabricated, storey-high insulation elements enable a short construction time. Vacuum insulation reduces the structural thickness.

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Gründerzeit houses

Historic facades require special detail solutions

Use of vapour-permeable internal thermal insulation with calcium silicate panels.

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TransUrban.NRW

Low Temperature Replaces Coal Infrastructure

Many cities and municipalities have committed themselves to ambitious climate protection targets for reducing CO2 emissions.

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Refurbishment of an office building

Modernisation and expansion of a high-rise ensemble

Newly developed solar shading element made of glass with intermediate expanded metal allows transparency.

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Energy-efficient Unicampus

TU Darmstadt networks electricity, heating and cooling

For its Campus Lichtwiese, the Technische Universität Darmstadt is aiming to realise the energy transition

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Geothermal energy

Avoiding standstill of geothermal plants

A new patented system with two parallel filter units filters fine particles and protects the heat exchanger and injection well.

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New-build factory

Zero emissions for climate-neutral production and management

The aim was to supply the production and administration facilities with zero-emission energy in the annual balance. This objective was almost reached.

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Urban thermal planning

Geographical heat information and simulation system

In order to utilise climate protection potential, two Hamburg universities are developing a geodata-based heat information and simulation system.

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