ISOVER Passivhaus Engl.

The Possibilities.
Live beautifully downtow
After passive house refurbishment of the residential
complex Markartstraße in Linz/Austria, living comfort
reached an all-time high.
Due to its location on a main phase of only 6 months, the
thoroughfare and the resulting situation looks quite different now:
exposure to noise and pollutants, passive house standard achieved,
the 5-storey apartment house from comfort increased, energy costs
the 1950s did not count among the reduced. New thermal envelope:
town's top addresses until recently. 1st to 4th storey now meet the
Nonetheless, the tenants had to passive house standard, the ground
pay relatively high rental and ancil- floor complies with low-energy
lary costs. After a reconstruction standard since cellar-facing insula- for the individual rooms as well as
tion was only feasible to a limited the windows have already been
extent. The following measures built in.
were taken to produce a new • Triple-glazed windows with inte-
thermal envelope:
grated sun protection.
• Solar honeycomb facade elements • Closed loggia glazing instead of
bracket-mounted to the outer the existing open balconies and
walls: the ventilation supply ducts loggias, thus integrating them
into the thermal envelope.
• Comfort ventilation system for
controlled ventilation of single
rooms.
• Hot water preparation by means
of district heat instead of gas
geysers.
• Insulation of cellar and attic.
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Developers: GIWOG Gemeinnützige
Industrie-Wohnungsaktiengesellschaft
Planners: ARCH+MORE ZT GmbH,
DI Ingrid Domenig-Meisinger