The 2022 REPowerEU[1] plan considers the electrification of the heating and cooling sector as one of the strategic pathways towards reducing natural gas imports. Reversible heat pumps can cover the space heating, space cooling, and domestic hot water needs of...
What makes a façade intelligent?
Opaque façade technologies have incrementally evolved both in new construction a by increasing their thermal insulation and airtightness levels aiming to reduce the overall energy demand from the buildings. These envelope...
The 2022 REPowerEU[1] plan considers the electrification of the heating and cooling sector as one of the strategic pathways towards reducing natural gas imports. Reversible heat pumps can cover the space heating, space cooling, and...
What makes a façade intelligent?
Opaque façade technologies have incrementally evolved both in new construction a by increasing their thermal insulation and airtightness levels aiming to reduce the overall energy demand from the buildings...
Nomenclature
ENVISION is a H2020 EU funded project that aims to develop technologies for harvesting energy using all the available surfaces of a building. In particular, the ones not commonly used such as building façades. Different...
In the building sector, and especially in offices and commercial areas, roofs have traditionally been considered to just be spaces to place equipment, such as Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and associated subsystems,...
The PLURAL project
PLURAL aims to design, validate, and demonstrate a palette of versatile, adaptable, and scalable, off-site prefabricated plug and play facades that take into account the needs of users (‘Plug-and-Use’ – PnU kits). PLURAL...
Heritage conservation has always drawn the necessary information for the preservation of monuments, art and cultural assets from the individual scientific disciplines and linked this information to get statements related to the specific...
Every professional involved in any way in the European construction industry should be well aware of Churchill’s broad concept of the reciprocal effect of the building design and the wellbeing of its users. With carefully selected words he...
The implementation of the principles of the circular economy can significantly reduce the embodied emissions of building materials and is shown by many EU-funded projects aiming at a 50% reduction. This is a significant issue because the...