On 27 October, Barcelona's Roca Gallery hosts an event on the state of nZEB and Passivhaus building in the region, with the PassivPalau house among the cases presented.
On 27 October, Barcelona's Roca Gallery hosts the event «nZEB, Passivhaus, current projects in Catalonia: Are we moving as quickly as we should?», a session devoted to the real state of near-zero energy building across the region. PAPIK Group takes part by presenting the experience of the PassivPalau house, a project completed this year.
The event includes the handover of the plaque confirming that PassivPalau has passed the Passivhaus institute certification. The presentation also serves to explain how an nZEB Passivhaus home is built with sustainable materials, and to give the audience a clearer sense of the real costs involved in this type of construction, a question that is often left out of the technical debate.
The session brings together architects, technical architects, engineers and builders around projects that have been built and are in use. The planned programme is as follows:
The block devoted to the retrofit of a multi-family building shows that the low-consumption standard is not confined to newly built single-family homes, but also applies to the existing building stock.
The event is free, with limited places, and registration is handled through the Passivhaus Building Platform. For anyone wishing to understand first-hand how a passive house is designed, built and certified in Catalonia, the session offers a direct reading of completed projects and of the professionals behind them.
The value of these events is not theoretical: it comes from houses that have been built, certified and lived in, making measurable what others still frame as a promise.