The paper first gives an overview of the Passive House principle. Afterwards, detailed measurements for the performance of 11 passive house projects within the EU-funded demonstration project CEPHEUS (Cost Efficient Passive Houses as EUropean Standards) are presented.

This paper could be made available to the public due to the kind permission of the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. It was first published in the
proceedings of the eceee 2003 Summer Study. Details about the Summer Study can be found on www.eceee.org.

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Most publications from the CEPHEUS project are in German, but a few documents are also available in English:

The final report contains more details about the construction and performance of the buildings as well as a list of references.
CEPHEUS Final report, short version (34 pp., 1.3 MB)
CEPHEUS Final report, long version (127 pp., 5.2 MB)

Within the EU-funded project PEP (Promotion of European Passive Houses) two detailed reports on the Passive Houses in Hannover-Kronsberg could be translated into English. They give a detailed description of the building construction and of the results of the monitoring phase.

Climate Neutral Passive House Estate in Hannover-Kronsberg: Construction and Measurement Results (143 pp.).
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