Energy analysis and experience obtained from the first passive house area in Norway

Abstract

This report represents my Master Thesis, conducted the last semester in the MSc Sustainable Energy and Environment, class of 2012. This thesis is written at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, in Trondheim, Norway,the fall 2013.We wanted to achieve new knowledge about a passive houses, and chose therefore to do the project at Miljøbyen Granås in Trondheim, Norway.The objective of this thesis was to acsess the benefits of using a passive house. This master thesis has aim to analyse energy use of the passive house area in Trondheim. The thesis was quite challenging since the gathering of all necessary data.It was really interesting to analyzing a Norwegian passive house with respect to Environmental impacts, and the learning outcome from the building industry has been great.In the end, I m very satisfied with the assessment and the overall results.This project is mainly for project at Miljøbyen Granåsen , but can also be used as an inspiration for anyone who wants to build a passive house.