Integral design Workshop for ZEB

Very few designers have the necessary skills or experience to design 0 impact buildings and environments. As complexity of the design increases with the efforts to reach the limit of zero impact, it really becomes necessary to involve all building design disciplines in the earlier stage of the NZEB design project. This is not something done by merely putting the different designers together around one table, but needs more support. Experiences with tools to help with and to support the group design process will be presented. In the last years different design workshops have been held for Zero energy building design, in which more than 100 experienced professionals, architects of BNA and consulting engineers of NL Ingenieurs participated. The steps for further improvement will be presented to stimulate the creation of new concepts to achieve 0 impact buildings and environments