Old pioneering cases (n = 2) |
1. Findhorn Ecovillage, UK (Lovell 2008) | 1962/1970s | Rural community development of self-built houses, including an education centre (systemic/construction) | Other | Village | New build | Environmental Eco-social | Not described |
2. Centre for Alternative Technology, UK (Lovell 2008; Smith 2007) | 1973 | Community development in an old quarry site, including self-built new development and education centre (architectural/construction) | Other | Village | New build | Environmental Eco-social | Not described |
1990s piloting cases (n = 6) |
3. Vale’s Autonomous House, UK (Lovell 2007b, 2008) | 1990 | Self-built house with a range of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures (architectural/construction) | Detached house | Building | New build | Environmental Policy Eco-social | Energy manager at Local authority Newark and District Council |
4. Hockerton Housing Project, UK (Lovell 2007a, b, 2008) | 1995 | Earth-sheltered housing with innovation in insulation and renewable energy (architectural/construction) | Terraced house | Building | New build | Environmental | Energy manager at Local authority Newark and District Council |
5. Beddington Zero Energy (BedZed), UK (Lovell 2007a, b, 2008; Smith 2007
| 1998 | Development of 82 homes with a range of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures (architectural/construction) | Apartment building | District | New build | Environmental Eco-social | Not described |
6. MotiVoittaja programme, Finland (Heiskanen and Lovio 2010) | 1999 | Technology procurement competition to promote low-energy house as a product (architectural/business model) | Detached house | Country | New build | None mentioned as no building projects as such | Publicly owned energy agency Motiva |
7. Nieuwland Solar Community, Amersfoort, the Netherlands (Johnson and Dignard-Bailey 2008) | 1999 | Development of 500 houses using sustainable building principles and solar renewable energy (architectural and systemic/construction) | Apartment | District | New build | Environmental Policy Knowledge Design Market | Amersfoot Municipal board, Eneco energy company, BOOM sustainability consultant |
8. Vauban in Freiburg, Germany (Williams 2012) | Not known, late 1990s | The development of a low carbon neighbourhood Vauban in Freiburg via higher energy standards in buildings, efficient energy systems and low carbon energy (architectural and systemic/construction and land use planning) | All | District | Both | Environmental Policy Eco-social | City Council Vauban, Forum Vauban |
Cases around the time of the 2002 building energy performance directive (n = 7) |
9. MeraReponen, Finland (Pässilä et al. 2015) | 2001 | A new energy efficient apartment building concept (architectural/model) | Apartment building | Country | New build | Knowledge Market | Not described |
10. Regeneration project of social housing in Cheshire, UK (Ozorhon 2013) | 2001 | 10-year partnering regeneration scheme delivering over 500 units of new housing as part of the vision for a sustainable future for the area (architectural and systemic/construction) | All | District | New | Environmental Policy Financial Knowledge Soc. sust. and equality | Not described |
11. Flanders building supplier, Belgium (Mlecnik 2013a) | 2003 | Architectural and modular innovations of cost-effective and stable solutions for the prefabricated assembly of wall, floor and roof products (architectural and modular/business model) | Detached house | Country | New build | Policy Financial Knowledge Market | Passive house platform |
12. DR-Friland, Denmark (Jensen and Gram-Hanssen 2008) | 2002 | A self-build housing area using recycled materials demonstrated to the public through TV broadcast and the internet (innovation type unknown/construction) | Other | Village | New build | Environmental Eco-social | Not described |
13. Stamford Brooke, UK (Smith 2007) | 2004 | Developers required to build 650 houses to standards that were 10 years ahead of time (innovation type unknown/construction) | Other | District | New build | Environmental Eco-social | Not described |
14. The Future Single-family Houses in Køge, Denmark (Jensen and Gram-Hanssen 2008, Holm et al. 2011) | 2005 | A building exhibition in the municipality of Køge to display around 55 energy-efficient and environmentally friendly single-family houses (innovation type unknown/construction) | Detached house | District | New build | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial Health and comfort | Det Gronne Hus (The Green House), an independent group established to organise Local Agenda 21 activities |
15. Brogarden, Sweden (Friesen et al. 2012) | 2005 | Renovation of Million Programme apartment blocks (300 apartments) to passive houses (architectural and systemic/construction) | Apartment | District | Existing building stock | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial Knowledge Soc. sust. and equality Design Health and comfort | General manager of Alingashem, environmental and sustainability consultant |
Cases begun after the 2006 energy end use and energy service directive (n = 16) |
16. Hallingellie—self grown radical niche and ecovillage, Denmark (Holm et al. 2011) | 2006 | Eco-village combining a passive house and energy efficient building to other environmental sustainable feature (architectural/construction) | Other | Village | New build | Environmental Eco-social Financial | Not described |
17. Stenløse Syd—District Planning with Ecorequirements, Denmark (Holm et al. 2011; mentioned briefly in Jensen and Gram-Hanssen 2008) | 2006 | A process stimulating new building innovations on the basis of eco- and energy requirements within district area planning (architectural/construction and business model) | Other | District | New build | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial Knowledge | Municipality possibly an intermediary |
18. Steletova Ulica Refurbishment, 60 flats, Slovenia (Castán Broto 2012) | 2007 | Installation of a range of energy efficiency measures to post-war block apartments (architectural/renovation) | Apartment building | Town | Existing building stock | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial Soc. sust. and equality | Public Housing Fund of the Municipality of Ljubljana |
19. Kvedrova Ulica, 20 flats, Slovenia (Castán Broto 2012) | 2007 | Installation of a range of energy efficiency measures to post-war block apartments (architectural/renovation) | Apartment building | Town | Existing building stock | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial Soc. sust. and equality | Public Housing Fund of the Municipality of Ljubljana |
20. Knowledge arena for energy efficient renovation of buildings, Sweden (Gluch et al. 2013) | 2007 | The creation of a knowledge arena for joint activities and discussions on issues related to the energy efficient renovation of housing (innovation type unknown) | Apartment building | All | Existing building stock | Environmental Policy Financial Knowledge | Swedish Energy Agency |
21. H2-college in Herning—Passive House and Hydrogen Energy Technology, Denmark (Holm et al. 2011) | 2008 | A student housing society building a geothermally heated passive house (systemic/construction) | Other | Building | New build | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial | Municipality possibly an intermediary |
22. Passive housing in Linköping, Sweden (Palm and Darby 2014) | 2008 | Development of passive housing including a block of nine semi-detached passive apartments to determine whether there is potential market for passive houses (architectural/systemic and construction) | Apartment | Building | New | Environmental Market | The municipally owned housing company AB Stångåstaden |
23. K3 Houses, Finland (Pässilä et al. 2015) | 2009 | A process to stimulate detached houses that were environmentally, socially and economically sustainable (architectural/model) | Detached house | Country | New build | Environmental Eco-social Knowledge Design | Finnish Cultural Foundation |
24. Technology Strategy Board Retrofit for the Future Programme, UK (Chiu et al. 2014) | 2009 | Government programme aiming to promote and demonstrate deep retrofits (systemic/renovation) | All | Building | Existing building stock | Environmental Policy Knowledge | UK Technology Strategy Board |
25. Retrofit of social housing in Cambridge, UK (Sunikka-Blank et al. 2012) | 2009 | Retrofit of social housing as part of Retrofit for the Future programme using highly energy efficient measures and renewable energy (architectural/renovation) | Semi-detached house | District | Existing housing stock | Environmental Policy Financial Knowledge Soc. sust. and equality Health and comfort Market | UK Technology Strategy Board, Cambridge City Council |
26. Modest Workman’s House, Belgium (Mlecnik 2010) | Before 2010 | Renovation of 150-year-old terraced house to passive house standard (architectural/construction) | Terraced house | Building | Existing building stock | Environmental Eco-social Financial Design Health and comfort | Not described |
27. Pilot retrofit of 150 houses in Kerkrade, the Netherlands (Rovers 2014) | Before 2010 | An example of a large-scale, rapid standardised retrofit process of 150 houses, introducing, testing and refining innovation related to the process and responsibility for energy performance (architectural and modular/renovation) | Terrace house, apartment | District | Existing building stock | Environmental Financial Soc. sust. and equality | Hestia social housing corporation |
28. Comfort Houses, Denmark (Brunsgaard et al. 2012) | 2010 | 10 single-family houses built to passive house criteria, focusing especially on comfort and Danish architectural traditions (systemic/construction) | Detached house | Building | New build | Environmental Knowledge Design Health and comfort | Not described |
29. Nottingham House, UK (Farmer 2013) | 2010 | An experiment in ultra-low-energy prefabricated design, designed by three post-graduate architecture students and constructed by a team of staff and students on campus (systemic and architectural/construction) | Detached house | Building | New build | Environmental Policy Eco-social Knowledge Design | Solar Decathlon Competition |
30. Solar Decathlon Europe, Spain (Cronemberger et al. 2014) | 2010, and 2012 | Competition in Madrid for universities across the world to design houses which run on solar, total of 35 solar houses over two competitions in 2010 and 2012 (systemic, architectural and modular/construction) | Multiple | Building | New build | Environmental Policy Financial Knowledge Soc. sust. and equality Design Health and comfort Market | |
31. Upwell development, UK (Pan and Cooper 2011) | Before 2011 | Integrating air-source heat pumps to the activities of a medium-sized house building company (modular/business model) | Other | N/a | New build | Environmental Policy | National Heat Pump Association |
Cases subsequent to the 2010 revision of the energy performance of buildings directive (n = 9) |
32. Malmesbury Gardens, UK (Gupta and Dantsiou 2013) | 2011 | A social housing scheme intended to provide an innovative approach to affordable mixed tenure housing design, procurement and finance, consisting of 13 council houses built to Code for Sustainable Homes level 5 (systemic/construction) | Terraced house | Building | New | Environmental Policy Knowledge Soc. sust. and equality | UK Technology Strategy Board |
33. New low-energy building for older people in Grenoble, France (Grandclement et al. 2015) | 2011 | The development of newly designed and constructed residential buildings for older people, with 90 apartments built to French low-energy building standard (architectural/construction) | Apartment | Building | New | Environmental Policy Knowledge Soc. sust. and equality Health and comfort | Building manager (post-construction intermediary) |
34. Retrofit of a multi-storey heritage building, Denmark (Harrestrup and Svendsen 2015) | After 2010 | Retrofit of a heritage building consisting of 3 blocks, 6 floors, 30 apartments and a heated area of 2717 m2 and an unheated basement (architectural/renovation) | Apartment | Building | Existing building stock | Environmental Knowledge Design Health and comfort | Not described |
35. Egedal residential area, Denmark (Quitzau et al. 2012) | Before 2012 | Development of extremely energy-efficient housing, an area of 76 ha and 750 new homes (systemic, architectural and modular/construction) | Detached house | District | New build | Policy Eco-social | Local Agenda 21 coordinator in the municipality; planners |
36. Eco-friendly campus accommodation, UK (Ozorhon 2013) | Before 2012 | Construction of eco-residences on a university campus to provide a replicable scalable model and create a sustainable living space for students (architectural/construction) | Apartment | Building | New build | Environmental Policy Knowledge Design | Not described |
37. Polje II, Slovenia (Castán Broto 2012) | 2012 | Building design following low-energy standard for 6 apartment blocks with 183 dwellings (architectural/construction) | Apartment building | District | New build | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial Soc. sust. and equality | Public Housing Fund of the Municipality of Ljubljana |
38. Pipanova Ulica, Slovenia (Castán Broto 2012) | 2012 | Pilot project intended to set a precedent on passive building in 22 small living units (architectural/construction and business model) | Apartment building | Building | New build | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial Soc. sust. and equality | Public Housing Fund of the Municipality of Ljubljana |
39. Vinicarjeva Ulica, Slovenia (Castán Broto 2012) | 2012 | House with two flats providing accommodation for disabled persons and design following the passive house standard (architectural/construction) | Semi-detached house | Building | New build | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial Soc. sust. and equality | Public Housing Fund of the Municipality of Ljubljana |
40. Dolgi most, Slovenia (Castán Broto 2012) | 2012 | Dwellings built around common green open space (architectural/construction) | Apartment building | Building | New build | Environmental Policy Eco-social Financial Soc. sust. and equality | Public Housing Fund of the Municipality of Ljubljana |