As building envelopes and mechanical and electrical equipment become more efficient, the impact of occupants on building energy increases. Meanwhile trends in teleworking, co-working, and home-sharing mean vastly different occupancy than the standard occupancy schedules. Finally, global expectations for comfort are increasing, while a variety of new technologies may or may not succeed in meeting this demand.
Post date: 10 Jul 2019
Type: Event
Register to attend this buildingSMART webinar titled "An Introduction to buildingSMART standards" delivered by Mark Baldwin, an Australian architect and BIM subject matter expert. In this webinar we will give a short introduction to the IFC standard, its structure, its history and future.
Post date: 3 Jul 2019
Type: Event
Animé en partenariat avec plusieurs plateformes locales du Grand Est, il constitue un guichet unique vous permettant de bénéficier de l’accompagnement personnalisé d’un conseiller en efficacité énergétique indépendant qui suivra votre projet du début à la fin et vous guidera vers une rénovation complète réussie et profitable Pourquoi choisir Oktave ? Un accompagnement personnalisé
Post date: 2 Jul 2019
Type: Link
National University of Singapore’s (NUS) School of Design and Environment (SDE) building, the SDE4, certainly stands out for its unique structure. SDE4 is NUS's foremost net-zero building, and the first of its kind in Singapore to be built from scratch. SDE4 gets its power through a "solar farm" on its roof which comprises over 1,200 solar photovoltaic panels and boasts a range of innovative building strategies that focus on improving the well-being of its users.
Post date: 1 Jul 2019
Type: News
Este prima casă pasivă premium din România și în top 10 din lume, este o casă construită de la buldozer la întrerupător în mai puțin de 7 luni, este o casă cu materiale și tehnologie de rachete spațiale în ea, este automatizată complet și înțesată de sensori, are 14 aplicații care sub o interfață comună o fac integral controlabilă de pe telefon, este o casă care a generat pe Youtube peste 50 de milioane de vizualizări și lista de superlative continuă.
Post date: 28 Jun 2019
Type: Case
Couvrant une surface de 1’348 m² au sol, le bâtiment détermine un volume simple, sur un seul niveau, marqué par la marquise d’entrée affirmant l’accueil des clients. Le bâtiment est constitué d’une ossature en bois reposant sur une base en béton. Les lames en pin du nord poncées et traitées avec un saturateur couleur noyer amènent de la chaleur à cette façade en bois moderne.
Post date: 27 Jun 2019
Type: Case
The EU-funded project ExcEED collects data from new and energy efficient buildings (such as energy performance, CO2 emissions, etc.), gathered into a database. Through the data collected, the platform will foster energy awareness and will build analysis of energy performances regarding existing buildings’ data.
Post date: 21 Jun 2019
Type: Tool
This is a Decision-Support Tool, implemented in an online web-based application, with the main purpose of helping local and regional authorities to relatively easy and quickly calculate energy and financial savings in individual public buildings and for the whole building stock by applying different energy efficiency measures.
Post date: 20 Jun 2019
Type: Tool
REbuild is international: every year the event presents the best case studies in Italy and across the world, to find radical, concrete, effective, market-based approaches. For this reason, the convention is held both in Italian and in English and involves several foreign speakers in order to hear firsthand experiences (RE) MAKING CITIES
Post date: 17 Jun 2019
Type: Event
343 abstracts have been submitted and and undergone a blind review. 300 papers have been invited. We thank all authors for their interest and look forward to reading about their work! Registration is now open. Topics 1-Smart materials for building envelopes (micro- and nanotechnologies) 2-Climate resilient buildings (ecobuildings, retrofit, performance gap)
Post date: 13 Jun 2019
Type: Event