Miniature passive house (MESH) with ENERGATE windows and doors on its travels across Europe
BASF, ENERGATE and partners present the new Mobile Energy-Saving House (MESH).
The Mobile Energy-Saving House (MESH) is out on its travels across Europe. It is designed to be a passive house and, over an area of 24 square meters, offers all of the relevant solutions required for the design of such a low-energy house: innovative insulation with the BASF products Neopor® and Styrodur® C, intelligent air-conditioning technology and ENERGATE® energy-saving windows. The partners for the MESH are r-m-p architects (Mannheim), the window and door manufacturer Ludwig Häußler GmbH (Speyer), the building systems provider Nilan Deutschland GmbH (Rödental), the manufacturer of stay-in-place formwork and floor panels with Styrodur C Lohr Element (Gemünden) and Inholz GmbH (Mannheim). The MESH has been presented to the public for the first time at the Clean Energy Power (CEP) trade fair, which took place from January 29 to 31 in Stuttgart, Germany.
Energy-efficient solid wood building
The miniature passive house is designed as a solid wood building with full thermal insulation. Products and materials which meet the standards required in passive house construction were used in its construction. They include the triple glazed wooden windows from the ENERGATE series, which was awarded the American Green Building Award. All partners will also be showcasing further products, technical services and consultancy packages covering aspects of the planning of passive and low-energy houses, e.g. energy certificates, energetic renovation and design for passive houses.
A passive house can make do without a conventional heating and air-conditioning system, yet it remains cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Passive houses are not only energy-efficient but also have a palpably better living climate than conventional buildings. A current EU stipulation sets the passive house as the energy standard that will be required by law for all new buildings in the future. Typical aspects of this building style are a well-insulated building shell and a refined ventilation and heat-recovery system. The requisite energy resources are low: A passive house has a residual heat demand of 15 kWh per square meter per year for heating, which corresponds to a fuel value of 1.5 liters of heating oil. According to a definition of the Passivhausinstitut Darmstadt, Germany, all of the primary energy for any extra heat, for hot water and electricity has to remain under 120 kWh per square meter per year.
Additional information at www.mesh.basf.com.
