The Conference Scientific Board Met:

The Most Innovative Presentations were

Selected for the 12th Passive House Conf


On November 12th the 12 members of the conference scientific board met in Darmstadt for the evaluation of the abstracts and for the selection of the presentations for the sessions of the 12th International Conference on Passive Houses.

All members of the scientific board were present; each Abstract had been examined before by at least two Refrees.


The conference board meeting 2007 Nov. 12th from left to right: Burkhard Schulze Darup, Henk Kaan, Robert Hastings, Harald ruffle (partly covered), Roland Digel, Matthias's von Oesen, Rainer Pfluger, Rolf-Peter Strauss, Helmut Krapmeier, Organiser Barbara Löbau of PHI, Wolfgang Feist - in the foreground on the left Mark Zimmermann (unfortunately only his back), on the right hand side Peter Holzer.

With more than 180 submissions and only about 80 possible verbal presentations the selection of the contributions was not easily done.

The predominant number of the submissions proved to have a good to very good quality. Decisions were made therefore according to the following criteria:

• Is the submission particularly interesting for the participants of the conference? In particular because of the innovation content or because of particularly exemplary strategies or because it concerns an innovative, helpful new component.
  
• Does it concern an implemented, concrete example with model character?
  
• The presentation can be shifted - with profit - to the subsequent year 2009 - this recommendation we gave in particular for projects, which are not only yet or in the construction phase - or, if there might be empiric reports and measurements available in 2009.

Despite the large number of abstracts the board discussed all submissions and made all decisions necessary for the conference program 2008. All decisons were made with clear majorities in each case.

The conference team thanks cordially for the concentrated work of the scientific bord.

The notification of the authors with regard to accepted abstracts for oral presentation or for poster session takes place at the latest December 15th 2007. Please do not call the preparation team, in order to inquire the status of your submission - that will retard the work to be done.

Build the Future - Now!

That is the Motto for the 12th Conference on passive house. What our future will look like - that depends on what we are doing today. And we can always do better - to ensure a better future for us, our children and our grandchildren.

Efficiency in Retrofits

In Nuremberg the first modernisation using passive house components took place - it was a worldwide acknowledged demonstration project, where a energy conservation of 87% was achieved. We are looking forward to get abstracts on realized examples of deep reduction retrofit projects for existing buildings.