EULEB EUropean high quality Low Energy Buildings

ABSTRACT: The EULEB-Project is intended to supply information to architects and engineers throughout Europe and beyond it. Within the EU it will support the new Energy Directive on Buildings through providing design and engineering details of European public high quality buildings with low energy consumption. By providing a CD containing information on architecture, energy consumption and economical efficiency as well as the comfort of these innovative buildings in use, the lack of information on low energy architecture and the prejudices many people have against it shall be eliminated. A data base of 25 high quality non-industrial, non- residential buildings will be created. The data base will be available through web and distributed also with a CD. The data base will be provide detailed concrete information on the significant parameters of exemplary buildings in the EU and the experiences in use. The CD will be distributed by magazines and seminars. The Buildings consist of Educational buildings, Office buildings and Leisure Facilities in nine European countries. Thus different climatic zones from Scandinavia to Greece will be considered and lead to different backgrounds when evaluating the respective buildings. Besides the energy performance of the buildings, the user acceptance will be evaluated by using post occupancy studies.