Danish activities in the EU-CONCERTO project CLASS 1 in Stenløse south

The municipality of Egedal decided in 2006 to strengthen the energy requirements for a new settlement to be erected in the municipality. During the years 2007-2011 a total of 442 dwellings was to be designed and constructed with a heating demand corresponding to the new Danish low-energy standard referred to as ''lowenergy class I'' in a new settlement called Stenloese Syd. 65 dwellings were to be designed and constructed with a yearly heating demand of IS kWhlm'. Furthermore the Concerto community includes a kindergarten and an activity centre for elderly people. After 3 years the kindergarten, the centre for elderly people, 65 dense low-rise housing units and 30 single family houses have been constructed. In parallel 15 deliverables/reports have been produced covering a number of different aspects: User preferences, proactive planning processes, product development, design guidelines, ecolabelling and training activities. A comparison was made of the calculated and measured energy consumption in a single-family house and in the KAB social housing project (65 dwellings). In the coming months the next demonstration buildings are to be completed, the extended district heating network (Plan B) including a woodchip furnace and a large array of solar collectors is to be implemented and the monitoring continued. The users will be followed and assisted and the lessons learned will be documented. It is expected that the experiences, lessons learned and R&D carried out as part of the Class I project will pave the way for the development, design and construction of sustainable, low or zero CO2-emission communities in the future. Further information about the Class I project is to be found on the project website: www.classl.dk