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Bahrain World Trade Center

25 January 2012 | Asia

The Bahrain World Trade Center (also called Bahrain WTC or BWTC) is a 240 m high twin tower building located in Manama, Bahrain. It is the first skyscraper in the world to integrate wind turbines ...

Submitted by Alexander Deliyannis (SYMPRAXIS Team) |

141 visits | Rating : No votes

Tags:wind turbines | energy and renewable energy | office buildings | skyscrapers

Sustainable design for the United Nations Regional Hub in Panama

23 January 2012 | Central and South America

High levels of sustainability, design based on principles of bioclimatic architecture, energy efficiency and high share of locally produced energy were the features sought by the United Nations ...

Submitted by Unai Arrieta (Trama TecnoAmbiental) |

126 visits | Rating : No votes

Tags:energy efficiency buildings and sustainable building practices

Malacky, Slovakia - Shining Examples for the Implementation of the Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive.

30 December 2011 | Slovakia

energy management implementation

Submitted by Meredith Davis (Building Energy and Environment Group (BEE)) |

264 visits | Rating : No votes

Tags:minus3% project | Energy management | Malacky Slovakia | on-line energy management tool

Electricity and heat from sewage water - Success story - Belgium

4 October 2011 | Belgium

The Wastewater Treatment Plant in Marche-en-Famenne installed a new type of micro-cogeneration unit (a micro-turbine) in order to produce energy from the sewage water.

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

442 visits | Rating : No votes

Kyoto High School - France

3 October 2011 | France

Poitou Charente region has launched a daring new “after oil plan”. One of its aims is to develop a clean regional administration and to use renewable energy in secondary schools. As part of this ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

584 visits | Rating : 4/5

School CHP plant - Best Practice Factsheet - Slovenia

3 October 2011 | Slovenia

A new micro CHP plant on natural gas was installed in the Primary school Zalog in 2006. This was the first first installed CHP plant in the school sector (and one of the first CHP projects in the ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

802 visits | Rating : 5/5

Stirling engine at the Stukitz swimming pool - Best Practice Factsheet - Austria

3 October 2011 | Austria

The ageing heating appliances of an outdoor swimming pool in Graz-Andritz were replaced with two gas fired Stirling 161 micro CHP Modules and a natural gas condensing boiler. This resulted with a ...

Submitted by Stefan Craenen (COGEN Europe) |

535 visits | Rating : No votes

Energy upgrades in a semi-detached bungalow in the SERVE region ( from 559 to 195 kWh/m2 / yr )

8 July 2011 | Ireland

The House in Richmond was originally constructed of mass concrete walls, and had a cavity wall extension constructed to the rear of the dwelling. As with many houses, Internal insulation or ...

Submitted by FEDARENE aisbl |

710 visits | Rating : 5/5

Tags:residential | energy efficient retrofit | serve project

SERVE Project : Upgrades in a semi-detached house

17 May 2011 | Ireland

The house in this case study was upgraded in 2009 as part of the SERVE project. It is situated in Nenagh Town. The house is a 125m2 three story dwelling in a two dwelling building. It is built ...

Submitted by FEDARENE aisbl |

696 visits | Rating : 5/5

Tags:energy efficient retrofit | residential | serve project

Smart metering saving energy for households

6 May 2011 | Spain

Sabadell executed a domestic energy saving campaign for 29 private dwellings, as voluntary families were granted a Smart-meter (Efergy e2) for a six-months period. The aim of the campaign is to ...

Submitted by Jaime Enciso |

585 visits | Rating : No votes

Tags:information | smart meters | households | electrical appliances