1st Nordic passive house conference: PassivhusNorden2008

Royal Garden Hotel Trondheim, Norway

April 2-3, 2008

Call for abstracts

PassivHusNorden2008 herby invite anyone who is engaged in low energy buildings and passive houses to submit a paper to the conference. The deadline for the abstract is 18th of December 2007, and the deadline for the full paper is 1st of March 2008. The author can choose to submit a one page summary, or a full paper with an upper restriction of 8 pages. Papers and abstracts can be written either in Nordic languages (Swedish, Danish or Norwegian) or in English. There will be both oral and poster presentations at the conference.

Themes for the conference

The following themes will be focused:

  • Passive house and low energy projects:
    • Projects in the design phase
    • Completed projects or projects in the construction phase
    • User experiences and measurements for completed buildings
  • Renovation to low energy or passive house standard
  • The passive house concept applied to non-residential buildings
  • Passive house components in the Nordic market:
    • Windows
    • Ventilation systems
    • Heating- and energy supply systems
    • New construction details and solutions
  • Economy, ecology and sustainable development related to the passive house concept
  • Indoor climate and comfort in Nordic passive houses
  • The user focus: Living in a passive house
  • Design methods: Planning, calculation and simulation
  • Energy supply in passive houses and larger development projects
  • Zero carbon municipalities and development areas
  • Certification and standardization of passive houses and low energy buildings
  • Energy scenarios for the Nordic countries

Time schedule

December 18, 2007
Closing date for submitting abstracts
January 15, 2008
Notification of the authors about acceptance of the submitted abstract
March 1, 2008
Deadline for submitting of the paper (1 page summary or max 8 page full paper)
April 2 – 4, 2008
1st PassivhusNorden conference in Trondheim, Norway

Requirements for the abstract

The magnitude of the abstract should be between 300-400 words. The abstract should preferably describe:

  1. A question, problem or a case
  2. Methods used
  3. Results
  4. Conclusions

However, the abstract can be adapted to the problem/case at hand.

Scientific committee

  • Inger Andresen, SINTEF Buildings and Infrastructure (NO)
  • Tor Helge Dokka, SINTEF Buildings and Infrastructure (NO)
  • Hans Eek, Passivhuscentrum (SE)
  • Per Heiselberg, University of Aalborg (DK)
  • Anne Grete Hestnes, The Norwegian University of Science and Technologyv (NO),
  • Riikka Holopainen, VTT (FI)
  • Ivana Kildsgaard, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute (SE)
  • Timo Kalema, Tampere University (FI)
  • Michael Klinski, Norwegian State Housing Bank (NO)
  • Søren Pedersen, Passivhus.dk (DK)
  • Åsa Wahlstrøm, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden (SE)
  • Maria Wall, Lund University (SE)