23-25 November 2009
Vienna City Hall

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This event is officially recognized as an EU Energy Day


Documents & links

UNECE Documents

Draft UNECE Action Plan on Energy Efficient Housing in the UNECE Region
prepared as a basis for discussion at the International Forum in Vienna, 23-25. November 2009
(pdf, 159 KB)

GREEN HOMES. Towards Energy-Efficient Housing in the UNECE Region
prepared for the First UNECE Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Housing,
21-22 April 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria (pdf, 1.767 KB)


Presentations and papers of the International Forum in Vienna

Jan Kubiš, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe:
Opening speech (pdf, 48 KB)

Jochen Flasbarth, President, German Federal Environmental Agency, Dessau:
Keynote speech (pdf, 44 KB)

Oleg Golubchikov, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment:
Presentation of the draft Action Plan for Energy Efficiency in Housing (pdf, 1.366 KB)

Martin Elsberger, European Commission, DG Energy and Transport, Unit D4 - Energy Efficiency, Brussels: The EU Energy Efficiency Action Plan and recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (pdf, 1.750 KB)

Dieter Groschopf, Deputy Managing Director, Wohnfonds Wien - Fund for Housing Construction and Urban Renewal, Vienna:
Developer competitions for social housing projects in the Ccity of Vienna (pdf, 727 KB)

Rolf Müller & Nadine Walter, Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development, within Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), Bonn:
New impulses from a nation-wide competition (pdf, 394 KB)

Mirja Adler, Credit and Export Guarantee Fund KredEx, Housing Division, Tallinn:
Using revolving EU Structural Funds to promote energy efficiency in housing (pdf, 691 KB)

Reiner Wild, Berliner Mieterverein e.V., International Union of Tenants (IUT):
The Eco-Mietspiegel. Initiation of energy residential renewal on local comparative rent (pdf, 104 KB)

Anne Power, London School of Economics, School of Economics and Political Science, London:
Climate Change Begins at Home (pdf, 73 KB)

Eoin Ó Broin & Filip Johnsson, Department of Energy and Environment, Energy Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg:
Towards energy efficient housing - the importance of local energy planning
(presentation: pdf, 655 KB)

(paper: pdf, 420 KB)

Oleg Dzioubinski, UNECE, Sustainable Energy Division, Geneva:
Housing Sector in Selected Countries of South-Eastern and Eastern Europe: Potential for financing energy efficiency (pdf, 109 KB)

Angel Minev, Association for Renovation of Multi-family Buildings - ARES, Sofia:
National Building Renovation Code (pdf, 560 KB)

Samvel Srapyan, Housing Stock Management and Communal Policy Division, Ministry of Urban Development of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan:
Improving energy efficiency in the Armenian building sector (Russian! pdf, 229 KB)

Elena Rodina, project manager of the UNDP/GEF "Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings" project, Bishkek:
Problems and opportunities of improving energy efficiency in buildings in Kyrgyzstan (pdf, 58 KB)

Akram Akbarov & Ikramzhan Negmatov, Centre of Skill Development and Consulting Services, Tajik Technical University, Dushanbe:
Energy efficiency of housing: examples from Tajikistan (Russian! pdf, 1.258 KB)

Yee Chow, Scott Wilson Ltd, London:
Delivering Zero Carbon Homes - Lessons from the UK (pdf, 766 KB)

Federico De Matteis & Carola Clemente, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Architecture "Valle Giulia": Design codes for integrated urban development. Presentation (pdf, 809 KB); paper (pdf, 91 KB)

Nikolai Bobylev, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Wolfgang Wende, German Federal Environment Agency, Dessau:
Spatial arrangement of buildings and their service infrastructure to increase energy efficiency in housing (pdf, 546 KB)

Roland Matzig, r-m-p architekten, Mannheim:
Sophienhof Frankfurt – Germany. Quality control in large scale building projects (pdf, 2.125 KB)

Are Rodsjo, Special advisor, The Norwegian State Housing Bank, Trondheim
Trond Haavik, Director international operations, SEGEL AS, Nordfjordeid:
From demonstration projects to volume market (pdf, 301 KB)

W. Cecil Steward, Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities, Omaha &
Sharon B. Kuska
, University of Nebraska, College of Architecture, Lincoln:
Sustainometrics: Measuring progress toward or regression from energy efficiency and sustainability (pdf, 3.112 KB)

Wolfgang Feist, University of Innsbruck, Head of "Passivhaus Institut" in Darmstadt, Germany: Keynote presentation: Perspectives for the future - Passive House Technology (pdf, 4.311 KB)

Nuria Pugés Pedrals, Director-General for Quality in the Building and Rehabilitation of Dwellings, Department of the Environment and Housing, Government of Catalonia, Barcelona:
Energy-efficient rehabilitation in dwellings and neighbourhoods as seen from a social, environmental and economic policy perspective (pdf, 358 KB)

Peter Op 't Veld, Cauberg-Huygen RI bv. Maastricht: Presentation of IEE ECOLISH project:
Energy exploitation and performance contracting for low income and social housing (pdf, 1.074 KB)

Vyacheslav Tolkovanov, Director for International Cooperation, Investment Development and European Integration Issues, Ministry of Regional Development and Construction of Ukraine, Kiev: Experience of Ukraine in the implementation of Energy Efficiency Programmes in Housing (pdf, 23 KB)

Noel Rice, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Belfast:
Tackling fuel poverty through energy efficiency strategies (pdf, 70 KB)

Luc Stijnen, C.V. Zonnige Kempen, Westerlo:
Energy efficiency in social housing: Tenants' behavior (pdf, 2.690 KB)

Marina Olshanskaya, UNDP-GEF Regional Technical Adviser on Climate Change, Europe and CIS, Bratislava: UNDP-GEF portfolio on building energy efficiency in Europe and CIS (pdf, 507 KB)


Additional Papers

A. Binz, E.K. Boronbaev, R. Kunz, E.O. Tohlukova, A.M. Abdyldaeva: Optimization of thermal solar effects on the energy efficiency of straw-bale buildings (Russian! pdf, 450 KB)

Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung (Hg.): Energetische Sanierung von Großwohnsiedlungen auf der Grundlage von integrierten Stadtteilentwicklungskonzepten (German! pdf, 2.950 KB)

Ray Galvin
: Thermal upgrades of existing homes in Germany: The building code, subsidies, and economic efficiency (pdf, 293 KB)

Johannes Huemer & Vera Kapeller
: The Innovative Prefabricated “Powerhouse”: Potentials for the Rehabilitation of Panel Buildings (pdf, 1.062 KB)

Neue Heimat Tirol (Hg.)
: Passive house estate Lodenareal in Innsbruck, Tyrol
(English/German, pdf, 3.523 KB)

pos architekten ZT-KG & Fritz Oettl arch.di.
: Gründerzeit-Haus for the future - feasibility study
(pdf, 574 KB)

Georg W. Reinberg: Description of housing project Schellengasse 172 (pdf, 38 KB) and Türnlhofstraße (pdf, 446 KB)

Peter Richter
: Erfolgsfaktor Wirtschaftlichkeit - Handlungsempfehlungen bei energetischen Modernisierungen von Mietobjekten (German! pdf, 893 KB)

Metka Sitar, Vesna Žegarac Leskovar, Dr. Vlasta Krmelj: Energy Efficient Strategies adopted in the City of Maribor, Slovenia (pdf, 106 KB)

Zdzislaw Slabkowicz:
Financing system for the renovation of the existing housing resources
(pdf, 103 KB)

Towarzystwo Budownictwa Spolecznego: Renewable energy sources in TBS resources
(pdf, 1.045 KB)

Sanja Vavan Vuceljic: Application of smart materials in retrofitting homes can help housing energy efficiency (pdf, 2.327 KB)


Pictures of the Forum and the study tour:

Picture set 1 (zip, 8.607 KB)
Picture set 2 (zip, 7.721 KB)
Picture set 3 (zip, 7.840 KB)
Picture set 4 (zip, 9.678 KB)


Links


CECODHAS - European Liaison Committee for Social Housing
www.cecodhas.org

Eurocities - Europe's Major Cities Network
www.eurocities.org

European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA)
www.feantsa.org

European Network for Housing Research (ENHR)
www.ibf.uu.se/enhr

European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN)
www.eukn.org/eukn

International Union of Tenants (IUT)
www.iut.nu

International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP)
www.ifhp.org

L'Union social pour l'habitat
www.union-habitat.org

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Committee on Housing and Land Management
www.unece.org/hlm

United Nations Human Settlements Programme
www.unhabitat.org

Establishment of a Co-operation Network of Passive House Promoters (PASS-NET)
www.pass-net.net




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