Your new home: planned to perfection.

Just like in many other things, inner values are the secret to lasting happiness in your new home, too. As your heating affects all its areas, you should carefully choose it according to property and building conditions as well as to your personal requirements. But that’s easier said than done, taking into account the vast array of possible options:

• Do you prioritize lower initial expenses or reduced operating costs and sustainability?
• What are the pros and cons of the different technologies and its combinatory options?
• Which solution is best as legislations, energy prices and ernergy supplies are changing?
• How about the additional production of electricity using photovoltaics?
• And how do property and building conditions limit choices or favor certain solutions?

In terms of comfort, flexibility, future-proofness and efficiency, innovative heating technologies are second to none – but come at higher initial costs. Gas condensing technology on the other hand is initially more cost-efficient and upgradable later on to fulfil legal standards and match with your personal preferences.

To have your new home meet your expectations in every aspect, it is essential to find precise answer to these and many more questions from the outset. And that’s why we’re here to help!

Building a house is as personal as challenging, since most owners have little to no prior knowledge on the subject. And how could they, when it usually is a once-in-a-lifetime project? A safe approach is to perceive your new build as a holistic system – with a future-proof heating solution as a key element. On this page you will find useful information to help you plan your new home successfully right from the start.

[Legal requirements of your country you should insert here]. Heat pumps are the new standard as they utilise free environmental heat from the air, soil or groundwater. But the technology is not only a relief to the environment, but also to you: Without the need for fossil fuels, worrying about future energy supply and pricing becomes an issue of the past.

Whether an air/water, brine/water or water/water heat pump suits your new construction best depends on the property you’re building on, among others. Learn what else influences your choice and how the technology works in our heat pump guide.

The property, the floor plan and the building – these three factors outline what to consider when taking the first steps of planning your new build. They should always be put into context as they influence each other as well as the ideal choice of your heating system. Therefore, to perceive your new construction as a holistic system is vital for appropriate decision-making.

• The property
  When building on a hillside, a basement floor might be necessary. Here you can store your entire heating system and domestic appliances out of sight. It also offers space to set up an additional office or hobby room if there’s sufficient incidence of light. In flat terrain or if light intensity in a basement would be too low for further use, a much cheaper base plate is usually sufficient as a foundation – and allows for a larger garage to host your heating system.
• The floor plan
  Doing without a basement means to add a utility room to the floor plan – with dimensioning that corresponds to the size of your heating system and domestic appliances. For example, if you decide to go with a heat pump with integrated ventilation and hot water storage, this requires less space than setting up each appliance separately.
• The building
  Your third starting point is the energetic quality: The lesser warmth is lost through a building envelope, i.e. the foundation, facade, windows and roof, the more energetically efficient a new build is. Minimum requirements are set by law and include the share of renewables to power a home. Although energy efficiency measures add construction costs at first, but the more you take, the more it pays off: in energy savings, subsidies and minimum carbon dioxide emissions.

What’s most important in a heating system is that it provides sufficient heat for your new build’s size and number of occupants. Rated heat output describes the maximum attainable power output of a heating system in continuous operation – and you can calculate it with this formula:

kW heating capacity (number of m2 x 50 W/m2: 1,000)

+ kW hot water output (approx. 30% of the above value)

= kW rated heat output

For example, for a low energy house with 130 m2 living space the result is 8.5 to 9 kW rated heat output, according to this formula. Ideally, you plan with slightly more than your maximum requirement to ensure convenience even at occasional peak demand. Our installing partners are happy to determine your maximum energy requirement and ideal source together with you – of course, also with respect to the given space for a heating system in your new construction.

When choosing your heating system, aspects like sustainability, acquisition and operating costs and additional features like cooling can be relevant, too.

To get a first idea of your ideal solution, just click on the icons below to find suitable options according to your requirements.

Selection Guide.

• Sustainability
• Low initial invest
• Low operating costs
• Cooling function

Reducing the ecological impact of heating and hot water supply is crucial for climate protection. Therefore, new build homes must meet government requirements in energy efficiency. To proof compliance with these requirements, there are two possible calculations. Both methods evaluate energy efficiency differently, but your building must only comply with one of the two:

• Calculation with primary energy factor
  A common method of evaluation is based on primary energy consumption. This approach takes the ecological impacts of sourcing, distributing and consuming energy into account to determine its individual primary energy factor: For wood pellets this is rather low, gas ranks mid-level and electricity scores worse – the district heating factor is location-dependent. Each factor is then multiplied with the actual amount of used energy to determine a building’s energy efficiency.
  
  To apply this method, your new construction’s power supply must also involve a certain share of renewables and insulation has to meet stricter requirements.
• Calculation with carbon dioxide emission.
  Your second option is to evaluate your new construction’s energy efficiency based on its carbon dioxide emissions – this time by multiplying consumption of each energy source with its individual emission factor.
  
  When calculating greenhouse gases, the energy demand of the building must not exceed the specified values. In return, however, there are no specifications on the share of renewable energies in your supply as well as lower requirements for the building insulation.