4 Dwellings at Engdraget in Ganløse (2006)

The buildings are designed in accordance with the Danish Energy Class 1 Classification. They are equipped with balanced central ventilation with demand control for humidity and temperature. Energy supply carried out by air to air heat pump. Ventilation handles heat distribution in the house by establishing a comfort heater (water based), which heats the incoming air from the heat exchanger. Energy supply provided by heat pump. Pollen filters inserted on the intake air.

With the fully controlled indoor climate this housing is suitable for seniors and people with allergies/asthma and lung and arthritic problems. Indoor materials and paint products used are EcoLabel. There is no concrete in the house with the exception of the floor in the bathroom. Designed according to the ThermoLogica principle.

There are no thermal bridges in the structure.

Land offered by Egedal Municipality. Offers and budget calculated by S & J Group A/S.

Architects: RH Architects A/S

HEP Center, Stenløse (2007-2009)

Community center for seniors in Egedal Municipality. The drop-in center was named after the sponsors: Harold and Edith Pedersen, and thanks to their foresight, their daughter Eleanor Doris Pedersen has been able to establish a fund which now - along with funds from another Stenløse Borger, Peter "Sandal" Petersen - is used to finance the construction of a new HEP-house on the lot where the old house stood. The community center is in low-energy class 1, meaning that energy consumption for heating does not exceed 22 kWh/m2/year.
Actual calculations from the consultants Cenergia A/S has estimated that the energy needed to heat is 14.6 kWh/m2/year. It has not previously succeeded for a one-storey houses of this size in Denmark.

Older house is built in a U-shape around a large, high-ceilinged common room, surrounded by smaller rooms: kitchen, conservatory, billiard room, computer room, toilets, storage, technical and administrative office. The house appears simple and restrained without much fuss. It is designed after ThermoLogica principle and is therefore completely dense. They buried steel plates are part of a geothermal construction that heats the ground during the day and in summer, while it absorbs heat at night and in winter.

The building is also significantly better insulated than normal and built with energy efficient windows. Although the house is close, it has a good indoor climate. Air exchange takes place mechanically via a heat exchanger, which ensures that pull fresh air from outside. The outgoing heat in the air is transferred to the incoming air through a heat exchanger.
It helps to keep energy consumption low.

Arkitekt: Arkitektfirmaet C.F. Møller A/S.

Højbjerg Area in Hundested (2005)

ThermoLogica - Innovation and accountability

RH ARCHITECTS AS have created a conceptual design for a housing development on a scenic site in northern Zealand.

This includes 16 one- and two-family houses, a total of 26 to 32 dwellings. The dwellings are orientated north-south on a south-facing slope at the edge of an existing forest plantation and down towards a small lake.

A new access road is provided north of the dwellings with parking in the woods. This is the first stage of a larger community. The dwellings have been designed using the ThermoLogica principle with highly insulated steel panels as facade and roof. To the south the larger glass panels used for passive solar heating provides an excellent view. The dwellings are so well insulated that only under extreme weather conditions heating will be needed, no real central heating will be installed.

The municipality is willing not to require connection to public heat supply, and it is one of the ERP1 project's main aim, to investigate how the additional heat input and output of water is established.
Pihl & Son A / S as contractors participated in budgeting.

1 The project "for energy services in Denmark" was launched under the Energy Authority's Energy Research Programme (EFP) in 2006.

ThermoLogica for KAB, Ballerup

Arcithect: Dissing+Weitling architecture, Contractor: Pihl & Son A/S
ThermoLogica is a Zero energy principle, that has been used for this structure. This structure consists of a three storey building with six senior/hypoallergenic apartments.

The ThermoLogica principle uses steel plates buried in the ground to transfer energy in cold periods to the building. On the second floor, where the energy transfer is not that effective, energy is added via an air heating solar glass panels on the facade. Additionally, the building is designed as a closed steel box, which protects residents against radiation and is equipped with special pollen filter in the ventilation system. The facades are made of untreated Corten steel plates. Year of construction: 1997.

Kerteminde Small Boat Harbor (2010)

Architects: SUNKE & DYDENSBORG

New clubhouse designed according to the ThermoLogica principle.

KORPUS Health Park (2008)

Health Mecca in Køge
A team of developers and designers (architect: HVIDT & MØLGAARD A/S) has for the past years been working on developing the project "KORPUS Health Park", a health park that consolidates various health professions (physicians, psychologists, physiotherapists, dieticians, etc..) in the same physical framework. In this project, the vision is to create a working environment with quiet, beautiful and stress-reducing conditions. Moreover, the cornerstone of the project is to stimulate the experience of architecture and surrounding nature and to incorporate the possibilities that currently exist within the ICT with wireless networking, video and music.

ThermoLogica The core of the structure is based on the design principle "ThermoLogica". ThermoLogica creates in a simple and effective way the best possible physical environment for a good and healthy building with an indoor environment that is totally under control.
In addition to cash benefits in the form of significantly lower energy costs and thus low CO2 emissions, it has been found through testing that people with respiratory problems feel appreciably better in a ThermoLogica building.

Kribyliparken
Brylle, Fyn - Senior Housing (2010)

Architects: RH ARCHITECTS A/S. All buildings designed as townhouses. A common rambla bind the houses together. It is here on this piazza, you can meet, play and talk. Ramblas can advantageously be connected to the neighboring property to achieve an interaction between the buildings and the occupants. At the end of the rambla a common building is proposed for the seniors to have the option of joint activities in the vicinity. The entire settlement is surrounded by a green area with grass and large trees.

Externally the buildings are presented with brick facade and black tar paper. The buildings open with large windows oriented toward the light and the surrounding garden. Inside the buildings are generally white.

The buildings performed as a highly insulated low energy houses after ThermoLogica principle, where the steel plates in addition to functioning as the central part of the construction and as climatic shielding also provides good storage of solar heat in the soil under the house to be exploited to reduce heat loss during cold periods. Besides the optimized building volume and the orientation of the windows as passive energy contributors, the buildings is carried out with effective insulation and minimization of thermal bridges. Between the individual terraced houses there is a narrow path which with advantage could be covered with a light glass roof in order to avoid heat loss from the the facades and exploit passive heating.