This publication is about low‐energy houses using solar technology. The authors are Karin Stieldorf an Irene Pollak. Both are accredited experts in the fields of ecology, architecture and design. Several scientists or institutions / organizations, including the Fraunhofer Institute cite this publication. The Fraunhofer Institute is one Germany’s leading scientific associations. They have declared it their mission to transform scientific findings into useful innovation. Thus, it helps to further economic growth, structural evolution and full employment.
This publication by Stieldorf and Pollak deals with low‐energy‐housing supported by the use of solar technologies. The idea and concept has been present for some time now and the two authors have made it their objective in this publication, to assess how this concept has developed; what advantages and disadvantages it has brought, how widely it is accepted and used, what problems occur, etc. Architects’ interest in the use of solar energy in combination with an energy‐saving construction method has increased significantly. By means of simulation and analysis of solar‐supported low‐energy‐houses, it has for the first time been made possible to compare the thermal behavior of building in summer and winter and, thus, make clear statements about their thermal quality. This method has been applied to a representative number of buildings. During this experiment, the sample buildings were chosen with special attention to their ability to serve as an example.