Completed in 2017 in Freiburg, Germany. World’s first public net-surplus-energy building—it generates more energy than it consumes. The new building of the first construction phase of the ...

Three oval office buildings and a circular children’s day-care centre – with this design ingenhoven architects won the international competition for Freiburg’s new town hall in 2013. In the long-term ...

Freiburg's new Town Hall became the world’s first public building to produce surplus energy when it was built in 2017 (Credit: Kat Barber) Ten years ago, ...

The Institute of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE conducted a joint study on the social acceptance of building-integrated ...

Matching the color of solar modules to the building roof or facade they are installed onto can further increase social acceptance of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), according to new ...