Largest low-energy building in Germany completed
The HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft, with a housing stock of 48,500 units, one of the largest municipal housing corporations of Berlin, has converted the twin high-rise tenement building at Schulze-Boysen-Strasse 35/37 into a low-energy building within the scope of a complete refurbishment in the Berlin borough of Lichtenberg. From March 2006 to January 2007, the largest low-energy building in Germany was fitted out within the framework of the national Low-energy Building model project within the stock of the German Energy Agency.

The HOWOGE has won the coveted Berlin environmental "Climate Protection Partner" 2007 Award for this project.

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The largest low-energy building of Germany
Brochure of the Ingenieurbüro für Projektentwicklung und Baubetreuung Berlin (engineering practice) on the project managed by them

Building documentation: complex refurbishment of a twin high-rise block with 296 dwellings and business units, including the facade (WDVS) and construction of a joint new entrance.
Focus on the replacement of the pipes and wiring as well as on windows, roof, loggias, fire safety, business units, combined heat and power plant, refurbishment of the empty dwellings

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