Housing Fair 2009 in Valkeakoski
The Finnish Housing Fair Co-operative Organisation and the City of Valkeakoski organised the Housing Fair 2009 in Lintula in Valkeakoski on 10 July - 9 August 2009.
The ca. 40 fair houses built on the verdant housing fair area in Valkeakoski form a multi-faceted combination. An extensible, unique house for a first home, a TV-house and a passive house with a vivid design are good examples of the extensive selection of houses. The fair included houses built in both traditional and modern styles, one- and two-storey solutions, stone and wood houses - not to mention the latest trends and experimental building.
In Lintula, small and reasonably priced options were also presented, as well as house types popular with the general public. The sizes of the detached houses built on the area vary from the wooden houses under 100 square metres to stone houses over 400 square metres.
The latest developments in energy-efficient housing was especially strongly present at the Valkeakoski Housing Fair: among others, several passive houses presented in the area, in which the need for heating energy is approximately only one quarter of the energy consumption of a normal house. Most of the fair houses use the environmentally friendly geothermal heating.
