A comprehensive technical and social refurbishment of a housing estate built in the seventies is carried out in the Gardsten project. Well thought out traditional measures are combined with newenergy technology which was initiated through participation in an EU project which, in turn, is based on IEA collaboration.
Solar heated water is more cost effective than retrofit insulation of facades.
Year:
1999
Bibliographic info:
Sweden, Swedish Building Research, No 3, 1999, pp 8-10.