hamnhuset
Abstract

Sweden's biggest apartment development built using passive housing technology - with the priority on comfort and energy-efficiency. With a quarter of the heating requirement of a normal apartment building, 75 per cent less carbon dioxide emissions, the same rent and a healthier indoor environment, it is helping to drive development towards the housing of the future. The project showed that it is both economically profitable and makes the best environmental choice to build a highly energy-efficient passive house that is heated by the surplus heat from people and appliance etc. The higher investment cost and environmental impact that this entails is repaid within a few years