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Being the built environment responsible for 40% of the final energy consumed in the EU, efforts are underway to develop a more circular and sustainable approach to the AEC sector.
Post date: 9 Mar 2023
Type: Event

Construmat 2023 - Barcelona (Spain)   It is essential for the construction sector to be able to have an impact on all areas of human activity and to address and assume the challenges of social, economic and environmental development. That is why at Construmat we promote the latest solutions on the market for more sustainable building.  
Post date: 8 Mar 2023
Type: Event

We are pleased to announce you the upcoming 7th International TensiNet Symposium "Membrane architecture: the seventh established building material. Designing reliable and sustainable structures for the urban environment" which will take place at Nantes Université (France) in face-to-face! from Wednesday 7th till Friday 9th June 2023.   
Post date: 1 Mar 2023
Type: Event

REBUILD se ha consolidado como el único evento para impulsar y promover el cambio de modelo constructivo de la edificación. Una transformación que se va a ver fortalecida en los próximos años a través de la industrialización, la digitalización, el diseño y las diferentes soluciones en materia de sostenibilidad.   Rebuild es una plataforma de innovación para que los fabricantes y distribuidores:
Post date: 1 Mar 2023
Type: Event

Wright & Wright Architects have won permission to build a development of new buildings and a reworked Victorian villa on the college’s Norham Gardens site to accomodate 128 students.  
Post date: 1 Mar 2023
Type: News

Building and construction industry in the UK needs to digitalise its processes. In fact, there has been an upsurge of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and an increasing adoption levels of Building Information Modelling (BIM), which is supported by the international ISO 19650 suite of standards.  
Post date: 24 Feb 2023
Type: News

Join us at this hybrid event on the 8th of March in Brussels at the Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre Horta-ULB!
Post date: 7 Feb 2023
Type: Event

The articles showcases five renovation of British houses led by architects Sarah Wigglesworth's and Piers Taylor to make them more energy efficient. British houses are generally very old and lack insulation, meaning that they consume a lot of energy. These example of renovations represent what other UK houses should implement to reduce dependence on fossil fuel and meet carbon targets.   The renovated houses are the following:  
Post date: 3 Feb 2023
Type: News

This new antology edited by three Swedish researchers explores places and buildings of human history and cultural heritage by looking for pathways. Fifteen researchers from countries including India, Israel and the UK and the researchers describe pathways from a range of perspectives divided into three parts: history, storytelling and cultural heritage.  
Post date: 26 Jan 2023
Type: Publication

“Holistic Renovation of Modernism Housing”  is an initiative coming from the New European Bauhaus and developed in the Baltics. The main concept is to renovate the post-war period prefabricated housing stock. These type of buildings are energy inefficient, are no more aesthetically attractive and do not respond to residents´ needs.  
Post date: 11 Jan 2023
Type: Publication