This week partners from Sweden, Germany, Poland and France will meet in the South of Sweden to discuss how far we have come in the RIEEB-project. The main item on the agenda is the validation tool that each country uses to confirm that calculated energy targets are met in real-life.

We will meet first in Ronneby which is home to Sweden’s first plusenergy house i.e. a single family house which generates more energy than it uses. In Ronneby we will also inspect a block of flats where retrofitting in 200-2009 led to a 35% reduction in energy consumption (from 85 kWh/m²/a to 55 kWh/m²/a). On Friday we travel 100 kilometers to Växjö, Europe’s Greenest city according to the British TV-company BBC. On the menu is a visit to Portvakten, Sweden’ first apartment building constructed in wood and with passivhaus-technique. We will also inspect Bokelund school. The RIEEB project is interested in looking at energy projects in schools, residential buildings and commercial offices.