Demo Neighbourhood Austria

The Austrian demo case is located in the Geneis District of Salzburg, an alpine town in Austria representing a continental climate. The construction of a plus energy residential quarter will upgrade the entire neighbourhood through an integrated construction project focusing on energy, accessibility, mobility, climate change adaptation and social-planning concepts.

Developer | Heimat Österreich

• Social Housing
• New built and renovation

230 Housing units

• Kindergarten
• Number of new buildings: 16
• New built area: 28.400 m² 
• Heated floor area: 24.200 m²
• Renovated area: 80.000 m²

Technologies

• Insulating material of building envelope, airtight windows.
• Biomass.
• PV power plant, Solar thermal roof system, GSHP ground source heat pump on site for heating.
• Energy monitoring systems, production, consumption & IEQ control systems, energy storage options ( EV etc.).

Innovations

• Smart house technology (production, consumption & IEQ)
• Heating and cooling with renewable energy in combination of PV, thermal solar energy and environmental energy (water from a near river (Almkanal) in combination with a heat pump).
• Low temperature micro net.
• Renovation incentives.
• social sustainability, tenant involvement/participation, participatory development of an autonomous energy community.
• Participatory design tools and methods.
• User behaviour assessment and optimisation.
• Data sharing, user-centred M&E.
• Demand-side management.
• Energy peak shaving as a result of dynamic energy modelling.
• Sustainable mobility concepts (electric car sharing, bicycles and accompanying motivation work).
• Green roofs and consideration of aspects of climate change adaptation.