ABSTRACT
The following information is primarily from a report of the EU Concerto Green Solar Cities project, ‘Passive house standard in Sweden, Denmark and Austria’, by Professor Maria Wall from Lund University, Division of Energy and Building design. There is an interesting introduction on how the idea of the passive house was first developed by the Swedish professor Bo Adamson of Lund University in the 1980s, and later moved further into practice by Wolfgang Feist of Germany, who also developed the Passive House Institute. In Germany more than 10,000 passive houses have been established.
