CLASS1 Site Stenløse

Within the CONCERTO programme 60 new dwellings are constructed as “low-energy class 1” houses according to requirements set by the Municipality of Egedal. This means an energy consumption of 50 % below the existing national energy regulations. Additionally about 100 single-family houses are built at Stenlose South area.

After the third year of the project 27 single-family houses (Picture 1), a social „ultra low energy“ housing with 65 dwellings (Picture 2), a Kindergarten (1,000 m², Picture 3) and a centre for elderly people (Picture 4) have been finalized. Furthermore seven public buildings in the town of Stenlose (2 schools and 5 kindergartens) have been renovated to reach the Danish BR08 energy requirements for new buildings.

Simultaneously the originally planned district heating network supplied from a relatively small bio-gasification plant has been substantially enlarged to cover a large part of the existing Stenlose town as well and a large wood-chip heating plant has been added. In fact the district heating network will be based on “load sharing” from a number of different CO2-friendly or CO2-neutral technologies: biomass boilers, large heat pumps (may utilise excess electricity from the many wind turbines in Denmark) and large solar thermal collectors. A total capacity of PV systems of 916 KWpeak installed on public buildings (Picture 5) will provide an annual renewable electricity production of 885 MWh.  

All the buildings of the Class 1 project will be monitored and controlled by an advanced BEMS (Building energy management system). The system will be targeted at users enabling them to monitor and control their own comfort and energy consumption. The system will be internet-based to reduce costs and enable residents to use their own computers for direct access to all data related to their own home and to comparative data from the other households.

The KAB social housing project

The project comprises 65 dwellings in two sizes: 82 and 110 m²2 (Picture 6 + 7). The houses are built as row-houses and the construction is prefabricated room-size elements – meaning that each apartment consists of two elements put together at the building site. Thus construction time onsite is very short. The dwellings have been designed for a net heating demand of 15 kWh/m²a. This is well below the Danish low-energy class 1 standard, which generally leads to a heating demand of about 25 kWh/m²a. The first year's measurement shows a heating demand of about 20 kWh/m²a, which is probably due to leakage on the assembling lines. This is being mended in the last months of 2009. The dwellings are primarily heated by air from the mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery.

One or two radiators have been mounted to ensure that heating can maintain comfort temperatures in very cold winters. The houses are to be supplied with heat from the district-heating network fed by the planned biomass CHP plant and a central solar heating system (also part of the Class1 CONCERTO project).

RENOVATION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN EGEDAL

The energy renovations at seven public buildings carried out by Egedal encompass 2 schools: Baekkegaards School (Picture 8) and Stengaards School (Picture 9) and 5 kindergarten/institutions (Table 1). The total area to be renovated is 20,443 m². The two schools are approximately 8,500 and 9,000 m² respectively and the remaining buildings between 500 and 1,000 m². Bækkegårdsskolen dates from 2002 to 2004, but had a poor insulation standard. The roof and external walls are light constructions and now insulated with 250 mm mineral wool.

Stengårdsskolen consists of 2 buildings erected in the years 1970-1978. The external walls are concrete sandwich type walls with an insulation thickness of 75 mm. The main – most costly – energy renovation measure is external insulation with new cover plates of all the external walls (Picture 10).

The Class1 project was initiated in autumn 2007 and the building regulation in force was the Danish BR08. The buildings are of different age and therefore their energy consumption varies in the range from 145 to 284 kWh/m²a (Figure 1, calculated according to the Danish “Energy-frame” calculation procedure, where electricity consumption is multiplied by a factor 2.5). The goal according to BR08 is an energy frame of about 95 kWh/m²a, corresponding to a reduction of 34 % - 67 % in energy use.

Figure 2: Floor areas, energy consumption before and calculated energy consumption after energy renovation