Building Retrofit Diary: Nursing Home Filderhof Stuttgart, Germany

This diary consists of quarterly reports of the status of the demonstration site written by the responsible demonstration partner.

General Overview

Description of the renovation and its purpose

The nursing will be renovated and enlarged by an extension. Since the energy consumption of the building is very high in comparison to the public building stock of Stuttgart, the city plans to do an energy retrofit, too. Besides a new heating plant an energy improvement of the building envelope shall be part of the retrofit. An atrium will be designed between the existing building and the new building wing. The planning process of the energy retrofit measures and how to include renewable energies will start in 2004. The construction phase will start in the end of 2004 / at the beginning of 2005 and shall be finished in 2006. After that a monitoring period is planned.

Status up to today

Investigation of the building and design work is ongoing. The requirements from the BRITA-project are worked into the design specifications by the architect and engineers of the project. Development of the retrofitting concept was started. Resolutions of the city council to continue the renovation were passed.