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News Brochure: Shaping the heat transition – knowledge and ideas for local activists

Around 70 per cent of flats and houses in Germany are still heated with natural gas or heating oil. At the same time, valuable heat is lost in many buildings through leaky windows and uninsulated faca

Publication Building check: Is my house ready for a heat pump?

New online tool checks whether a house can be heated with a heat pump

Authors: Feliks Todtmann , Jakob Metz
Year: 2025

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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 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 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

Project A heat pump? I can do that!

Runtime 09/2025 – 02/2028

Background Despite generous subsidies, demand for heat pumps is declining in 2024, meaning that the target of installing six million new heat pumps by 2030 and three million by the end of 2025 is like

Publication Future-proof heating systems

Investigation into the use of sustainable heat supply systems for residential and non-residential buildings

Authors: Jakob Metz , Helena Stange , Sara Ortner , Bert Oschatz , Bernadetta Winiewska , Bettina Mailach
Year: 2025

Zukunftswärme - Untersuchung zum Einsatz von zukunftsfähigen Wärmeversorgungssystemen für Wohn- und Nichtwohngebäude (PDF, 1 MB)

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