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News Ready for a heat pump? Online tool gives homeowners an initial assessment

Is my house suitable for heating with a heat pump? The new ‘Heat Pump Building Check’ provides homeowners with a quick assessment. Using a simplified room-by-room heating load analysis, the online too

News Building Modernisation Act as an opportunity

Thinking about heat generation and efficiency together – for growth, jobs and acceptance The announcement by the coalition committee that the current Building Energy Act will be replaced by a ‘Buildin

News Study on CO2-neutral state administration published

On behalf of the Hessian Ministry of HMLU, ifeu has investigated how the state administration can achieve its climate policy goals by 2030. To this end, ifeu has developed various scenarios that show

News Current market analysis on energy services published

Since 2015, the Federal Agency for Energy Efficiency (BfEE) has been working with a consortium consisting of Prognos AG, the ifeu Institute and Verian to regularly examine the markets for energy consu

News Discussion paper ‘Future Standard for Old Buildings’ published – How we can accelerate building renovation and make it fairer

Building renovation faces a dilemma: on the one hand, renovation must be carried out more quickly and cost-effectively, but on the other hand, climate protection and social justice must not be neglect

Publication Zukunftsstandard Altbau

Förderung vereinfachen, Einzelmaßnahmenförderung stärken, mehr sanieren. Diskussionspapier.

Authors: Martin Pehnt , Thomas Auer
Year: 2025

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News A new emissions trading scheme for buildings and transport – TREFFPUNKT TRANSFORMATION with Dr. Jana Nysten

Yesterday evening, we welcomed Dr. Jana Nysten from the Environmental Energy Law Foundation to the ifeu Institute in Heidelberg for an exciting lecture as part of our lecture series “Treffpunkt Transf

News Boosting living space in existing single-family homes instead of consuming greenfield sites

Boosting housing in existing single-family homes instead of consuming greenfield sites Anyone who has ever looked for a flat in Germany's urban centres knows that finding living space is difficult and

Project SUSTAINOW

Runtime 11/2025 – 10/2028

Offshore wind is a cornerstone of Europe’s clean energy future: Europe aims for 300 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2050. To support the growth of offshore wind in Europe’s seas, more integrated appro

Project From the Present to the Future: The Transformation of Housing Estates in Small Towns

Runtime 11/2025 – 01/2026

Small towns have a diverse housing stock that varies according to when it was built and its architectural typology. Depending on their location, small towns face very different challenges: whilst in o