No more connections for electricity, gas, water or sewage: the municipal construction company Vätterhem has big plans in Jönköping, a medium-sized Swedish city somewhere between Gothenburg and Stockholm. The first “fully self-sufficient” buildings should be built by 2023: two residential complexes with a total of 44 apartments.
“It is a major investment, but we hope we can demonstrate that such an investment will pay for itself over time,” said Pär Löfstedt, Project Manager of Yellon, the agency that came up with the concept and eventually teamed up with Vätterhem for the elaboration.
“The development of buildings with a smaller carbon footprint in the economy of the future has to start somewhere. This type of design could well become the home of the future,” says Thorbjörn Hammerth of Vätterhem.
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