KUHLIO Frankfurt | cools urban heat island

This residential project is the 1st GREENPASS Gold certified building in Germany and makes a positive contribution to a better urban climate and a high level of comfort.

For SRE, this was the first joint project and a kind of test and examination run to see what tasks and what added value GREENPASS brings with it in planning and certification for developers.

In addition to the intensive greening to optimize thermal comfort in the inner courtyard and the gardens, the planning also focused primarily on the topics of rainwater management and biodiversity.

The thermal storage capacity was reduced and improved through the targeted use of ground-based facade greening.

Modell

KUHLIO is COOL in the truest sense

With simple measures, such as additional bushes and trees as well as the targeted positioning of these, the air temperature is cooled by up to -0.3° C additionally on a typical heatday. By reducing the thermal exhaust air flow, the project also has a positive effect on the urban climate.

The water requirement for the plants could also be jointly reduced in the optimization phase and the CO₂ storage increased. The approx. 0.4 hectare green area and more than 40 trees add up to almost one hectare of leaf area.

The project also makes many important contributions in the bonus areas of biodiversity, resources and social issues through e.g. communal areas, accessibility in outdoor areas, smart lighting concepts, avoidance of animal traps and the use of regional and ecological materials in gardening and landscaping.

Results

The evaluation framework for a GREENPASS certification is formed by standardized and differently greened reference scenarios, from totally sealed to fully green (worst case – moderate case – best case). The concerns should be taken into account as early as possible in the planning process in order to achieve maximum climate resilience for the respective location and framework conditions.

The 1st GREENPASS Gold Certificate in Germany is confirmed in the project with an overall degree of fulfillment of 76% and underlines the performance of a sustainable showcase project in residential construction.

Sustainable and future-proof developments are not only indispensable for a successful adaptation to climate change. But are also in the responsibility of the building developer as well as the proof of the environmental impact on the population and the neighbors.

GREENPASS acts also consciously as an active instrument in means of communication during and after the planning process or implementation to make the many services of buildings, materials and plants on the environment and us humans visible.

With KUHLIO, the SRE is also taking on a pioneering role in terms of sustainability and shows how contemporary, climate-active & future-proof real estate can be designed.