BioHousing - Sustainable, comfortable and competitive biomass based heating of private houses

In the BioHousing-project, the aim was to promote and produce systems which enable private house owners to use sustainable bioenergy. Additionally the aim was to raise awareness that biomass based heating systems are considered as realistic and convenient alternative for heating private houses.

There are almost 24 million single-family houses altogether in Finland, Austria, France, Italy and Spain. If owners and new house builders would increase their use of solid biomass fuels, the greenhouse gas emissions caused by private houses could be reduced considerably.

The choice of the heating form is one of the most important and long lasting decisions, the house builder has to make. In addition to environmental effects, the choice impacts also on the costs and comfortableness of living. In the BioHousing-project, we have developed and produced concepts and tools as well as information material for private house builders and house owners to enable their use of sustainable biomass and solar heating.

BioHousing was co-financed by the Intelligent Energy Europe -programme of the European Commission (2006-2008).

Photos: Vapo Oy and Risto Louhisola

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