01. Oct 2008 - EnOB competition “Buildings with energy” announced

Abstract

The EnOB competition “Architecture with energy – Buildings of the future” was announced today. The competition was declared open in front of more than 150 architects, project planners and scientists in the International Congress Center in Dresden. The competition was introduced to the specialist press (photo) during the two-day symposium “On the way to zero-energy buildings”, which was part of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology’s “Energy-optimised building” research focus.

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This open competition will be looking for innovative ideas and approaches that will help achieve high comfort with minimal energy requirements in tomorrow’s buildings. The competition has a prize fund of 100,000 euros, and also offers the opportunity to have the winning entries included as model projects in the Ministry’s EnOB support programme. Ten prizes of 10,000 euros each are to be awarded, either for single buildings or for building complexes. The competition organisers reserve the right to award a smaller number of prizes or to alter the distribution of the prize money.

Aim of the competition

The competition is looking for ambitious, well-designed concepts for new buildings and refurbishment projects which include optimised building and energy philosophies. Planning should be based on an integral process and use innovative technologies and systems.

Conditions of participation

Building developers from the private and public sectors, architects and planning offices are entitled to enter. Given the aim of implementing integral planning approaches, architects and specialist planners are particularly encouraged to submit joint entries.

More than one entry may be made. Consortia count as a single entrant. Only one plan may be submitted for each given project.

Detailed information and competition documentation

Detailed information and the official competition documentation may be downloaded here.