NEXT-BUILDINGS Site Helsingborg
The city of Helsingborg had adopted an ambitious climate action plan by which the city had already achieved 88 % CO2 emissions reductions (compared with the 1997 level) and a less than 20 % share of fossil fuel, the final goal being carbon neutrality, or even exporting carbon-neutral energy to neighbouring areas. With this aim, the NEXT-BUILDINGS project realised very low-energy buildings as the first phase of a huge and very ambitious 311 000 m2 ecodistrict development. The new dwellings comprised not only of passive houses or zero-energy buildings, but also include active houses (a new category of houses that generate electricity and heat, and include user involvement and demand control), together forming a more sustainable new neighbourhood.
*Information regarding the technical and financial performance will be available at a later stage.
The new buildings were established as fill-in buildings in between the eco-rehabilitated buildings. They are active houses with a space heating demand of less than 16 kWh/m2/yr.
Active houses are active as they generate electricity (exchange/export of electricity to grid) and heat (exchange/export of solar to district heating). Moreover, they feature user involvement, behaviour and demand control, and thus have an important role for the development of the total adjacent area.
*Information regarding the technical and financial performance will be available at a later stage.
The implemented measures include:
Energy efficiency in buildings
- High-performance new buildings
- Building integrated renewable energy sources
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- 100% green electricity
- Waste sorting
Energy system integration
- Waste heat recovery
- Heat recovery from waste water
- Photovoltaics
- Thermal collectors
- District heating and cooling
- Renewable district heating
- Building energy management system