ETICS Forum 2021 - European Association for ETICS (EAE)

5th European ETICS Forum 2021

Successful online event with participants from 30 countries

As EAE President Jacek Kulig (SSO/Poland) mentioned in his opening speech, the European Association for ETICS (EAE) would have preferred welcoming the audience face-to-face. With all the uncertainties given in spring 2021 related to the Covid-19 pandemic, EAE’s members decided to have the 2021 edition of the European ETICS Forum online. Finally, participants from around 30 countries across Europe and even beyond followed the high-level presentations of the speakers. Topics focused on ETICS & Politics and ETICS & Architecture.

The latter included the first ever celebration of the EAE Awards 2021 with around 50 applications received from 10 different countries showcasing that energy-efficient construction with ETICS and superb architecture can coexist.

For those who did not have the chance to attend or would like to watch it again, recordings of both sessions are available here.

Part 1: Welcome and ETICS & Politics

Part 2: ETICS & Architecture and Wrap-up

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Questions & Answers

The following questions have been raised in the chat during the online conference or after. We have consulted the speakers.
Please, find the respective answers below.

What is definition of passive houses in the U.S.?

Stephen Sears (EIMA): We refer to the definition as described on the
website of www.phius.org.

For mineral wool, what kind of insulation products did you include?
Glass wool, stone wool?

Ralf Pasker (EAE): The questionnaire EAE circulated to its members and partners did not explicitly differentiate. The market share of insulation products used in ETICS was asked. Therefore, we assume that replicants considered mineral wool products as defined in the respective European product standard EN 13162.

So where do the Baltics belong in terms of EAE’s market statistics?

Ralf Pasker (EAE): In the presentation shown countries have been grouped to create a more detailed picture of the huge European ETICS market. Basic criteria were geographics and ETICS market structure, not geo-political aspects. The Baltic ETICS markets (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) show more similarities with the Eastern countries than with the Nordic countries. For that reason they have been grouped to Eastern Europe.

It will be interesting to see how big the commitment of the architects and designers could be to follow a common aesthetics rule in the movement of building renovation. Do you see a real chance to recognize it, as it was in the Bauhaus or Modern Architecture movement?

Georg Pendl (Architects Council of Europe): Actually, you match a good point, which is – with all respect of the basic idea of the initiative – the weakest point in the initial communication. Fortunately, this aspect has vanished in the following papers.

Of course, 100 years ago and having been a quite coherent group of people active, there has been a kind of mutual speech of design, remember/or look to the classical of the time, Stuttgart Weissenhof, Dessau, or the White City in Tel Aviv.

Today we live in a different world, and the mutual starting point is embedded in the approach, attitude, way of thinking and starting projects, in German „Haltung“, definitely not in a mutual or common state of design in its visual expression. Life has become more complicated, more various, more plural, any kind of design building rules wouldn’t be successful in any case.