In order to promote PEB around Europe, there will be a Swiss and European Award for Plus Energy Buildings in 2010. It is the goal of this PEB Award to support architects and engineers according to the actual PEB level of technology in order to realise PEB possibly nationwide. The most creative architects, engineers and […]

Dear Mr. President, as President of the United States you visited Saudi Arabia in spring 2009. According to the media, you were asking your hosts to send less money to Pakistan and Afghanistan because it might be used for financing terrorists’ actions. We have to ask ourselves if those who are obstructing the use of […]

As millions of other examples from SMEs, the history of the hotel Ucliva shows that renewable energies create jobs and lead to a sustainable, regional ecology of public interest. Renewable energies and in particular solar energy can be used on all continents and even in far-away communities by the local population. The sun is shining […]

All these examples show that the opponents’ arguments against renewable energies are based on lack of knowledge and ignorance of facts—to the disfavour of SMEs that have no lobby for PR campaigns. The main argument Bill Clinton used in 1996 in his successful election campaign is still the same today: "It’s the economy, stupid.” The […]

"Instead of sending our money abroad for buying fuel oil, we better create domestic jobs with the know-how of German engineers,” declared the German Minister of Environment (and member of the CDU) Norbert Rottgen. a There is no other energy and job machine that substitutes more energy and creates millions of sustainable jobs at the […]

If it is possible to refurbish energy-intensive businesses with an energy index of 750 kWh/m2a to PEB, why should it not be possible to realise all future European average buildings with ten times lower energy indexes of 40 to 70 kWh/m2a as PEB as well? Furthermore, if in Pudong at the Huang-Pu river of Shanghai […]

Solar radiation in Central Europe brings approximately 1000 kWh/m2 a. The sun is essential for the loop of nature and outnumbers the total energy need of the whole world by a factor of 10,000. The solar reserves will last for the coming four billion years. If we analyse the gifts of nature and physics per […]

The principles mentioned by Lord N. Foster at the 15th Swiss Solar Prize are valid also for the 20th Solar Prize and for architecture of the 21st century. "Architects, designers and planners cannot continue to ignore the damage our building inflict on the natural environment.” As the consequences of our past inaction become ever more […]