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Future of BUILD UP Skills: make your voice heard!

The Executive Agency for Small & Medium-sized enterprises is launching an on-line consultation regarding the future implementation of the BUILD UP Skills initiative.   Launched in 2011, the main objective of BUILD UP Skills is to increase the...

Call for Papers – 6th International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials

  • 24 Jun 2020

Rebuilding Europe: Deep energy renovation should be the heart of EU economic recovery

  • 22 Jun 2020

Events

Leveraging the skills of building professionals to deliver on the European Green Deal

  • 9 Dec 2020
  • Belgium

Passivhaus Contractor webinar

  • 6 Jul 2020
  • United Kingdom

Whole House Deep Retrofit – AECB Webinar

  • 7 Jul 2020
  • United Kingdom

Practices

Climate 2020 – the path ahead

The renovation of Doragno Castle - Rovio, Switzerland

Healthy Buildings for All: Putting people’s health and well-being at the center of the EU built environment

Local policies and boundary conditions for PEHs

This report gives an overview of the different policies and related boundary conditions in Norway, France, Germany and Italy and shows how they influence the spread of PEB concepts. National funding...

nZEB policies and the support tools in eCentral project target countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary)

Currently, buildings account for 40% of total energy consumption and around 75% of them are energy inefficient, with an annual renovating rate around 0.4-1.2%. EU has established legislative...

From nearly-Zero to Plus Energy Buildings

The 2030 Framework for climate and energy sets a 40% cut in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions compared to the 1990 level as an EU-wide target for 2030. To this end, the European Union (EU) has...

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H2020 MOBISTYLE - Showcase of the final results

EPB standards linked to health and wellbeing

The Templater tool

The Templater tool is been conceived by BRE in order to facilitate the implementation of BIM data standards across the asset lifecycle.   This is achieved by providing a free to list opportunity for manufacturers and a free to access for...

Energy Trilemma Index

The World Energy Council’s Energy Trilemma Index tool, produced in partnership with Oliver Wyman, ranks countries on their ability to provide sustainable energy through 3 dimensions: Energy security, Energy equity (accessibility and...

Topics

Airtightness of Buildings and Ductwork

Energy efficient buildings and in particular near zero energy buildings require a specific attention to building airtightness. For more information, visit also www.tightvent.eu.

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Expert Talks - Duygu Erten, Senior Sustainability Executive

Check the link to watch the full interview! For the 5th edition of the Expert Talks series, the interviewee is Dr Duygu Erten, Senior Sustainability Executive, Green-Building...

Expert Talks - Sylvain Kubicki, Senior Research and Technology Associate at LIST

Check the link to watch the full interview! For the 4th edition of our Expert talks series, we had the opportunity to interview Sylvain Kubicki, Senior Research and Technology Associate at...

Expert Talks - Laura Maturi, Senior Researcher at Eurac research

Check the link to watch the full interview! COVID-19 did not stop us in hosting our 3rd expert talk, even though this time it took place remotely. We had the opportunity to interview Laura Maturi,...