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Renovating historic buildings for a sustainable future

From small medieval towns in Italy to the elegant nineteenth-century boulevards in Paris; from the zen Buddhist temples in Kyoto to the colourful cathedrals of Mexico’s colonial cities: buildings reflect our culture and need to be preserved to tell...

SMUD declares climate emergency; sets goal to be carbon neutral by 2030

  • 23 Jul 2020

Great progress with innovative components of RES4BUILD’s integrated energy system to deliver on decarbonisation objectives for Europe’s buildings

  • 22 Jul 2020

Events

RESTORE Training School and Conference - JUMP 2030 - “The Good Urban Life”

  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Austria

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

  • 9 Dec 2020
  • Belgium

2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

  • 16 Aug 2020
  • North America

3rd International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environment Engineering - REEE 2020

  • 16 Aug 2020
  • Portugal

Practices

HAPPEN project flyer

Monitoring and continuous commissioning of new and existing buildings

Experienced and lessons learned from P4P pilots for energy efficiency

Building automation as a means for efficient building operation

Thermal comfort, indoor air quality and daylight are key factors in the comfort of building occupants. Despite the interconnection of these aspects and the related requirements, the way to achieve...

Energy in Buildings at the 2020 EU Sustainable Energy Week #EUSEW 2020

This year marks the 15thEuropean Sustainable Energy Week EUSEW.  Under the circumstances with Covid-19 the event was adapted to provide a dynamic, interactive and carefully organised online format....

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...

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Catalysing the EU Renovation Wave in the transition to the next-generation Energy Performance Certificates

How can BIMplement be implemented in other European countries?

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...

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EPBD and related EU directives

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Expert Talks - Christophe Sykes, Director General at Construction Products Europe

Check the link to watch the full interview! For the 6th edition of the Expert Talks series, the interviewee is Christophe Sykes, Director General at Construction Products Europe (AISBL) and member of...

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...