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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...

Boosting the EU's green recovery: Commission invests €1 billion in innovative clean technology projects

  • 8 Jul 2020

Eurac Research's advice to the Ukrainian government on renewables

  • 6 Jul 2020

Events

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

  • 9 Dec 2020
  • Belgium

iPHA Community Meet Up - Design Journey to PH Premium - A Client's Perspect

  • 13 Jul 2020
  • Undefined

Transition Workshop 2020 - Roadmaps for resilient decarbonizing cities

  • 13 Jul 2020
  • Switzerland

Practices

ECSO – Improving the human capital basis

Energy efficiency in buildings: greater focus on cost-effectiveness still needed

Alnatura Campus - Darmstadt / Germany

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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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...

Topics

Ventilative cooling

Ventilative cooling refers to the use of natural or mechanical ventilation strategies to cool indoor spaces, and thereby both improve thermal comfort and reduce space cooling energy use which may be critical to achieve new or renovated NZEB.

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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...