Learning from comparative examples of passive houses in different European countries

ABSTRACT: The rising energy prices and energy consumption caused the interest about buildings with low energy consumption such as passive house. Furthermore, due to the decrease of fossil fuels, mainly energy consumption of the building sector derives from fossil fuel, and the residential buildings are making around 27% of the total consumption in Europe (Eurostat, 2011). So the residential buildings in Europe need energy savings. The realized passive house in different countries are examples to understand the reasons of this usage. Learning from the case studies is significant for the future development of passive house standard for other countries. Therefore, this work analyzes comparison of passive houses in different European countries, by choosing several case studies of passive house standard in hot and also cold climate zones. Based on the analysis passive house is a sustainable and suitable energy saving concept, which can be utilized in the context of Europe. Due to the examples of passive house, it can save more than 62% of primary energy consumption in the residential building for Europe, in addition to the point that the investigation showed that passive house standard is climatically, technologically and economically for the selected European countries suitable. KeyWords: Passive house, Passive House Standard, Energy Efficiency. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………