The globalisation trends in the building sector resulted in the adoption of inadequate design solutions, especially for warm weather regions, which replicated designs that are far from sustainable or energy-efficient. The obsession with...
It is urgent to study the best sustainable designs for warm climate zones to unleash their market and research potential, thus popularising these concepts to a broader audience. These designs involve bioclimatic approach, low-energy...
Promoting a more circular production paradigm, engaging communities, and promoting urban and community development can be achieved through collaborative production in cities.
The EU-funded Pop-Machina project will create a network of...
Pop-Machina is a Horizon 2020 project that seeks to highlight and reinforce the links between the maker movement and circular economy in order to promote environmental sustainability and generate socio-economic benefits in European cities.
EXPERT TALKS series is an initiative from the BUILD UP portal. In the form of face-to-face interviews, experts from all around Europe covering the field of Energy Efficiency in buildings from different perspectives share their views,...
"In the situation we have now, there is a lack of skilled workers specially in the construction sector. The case of the heritage sector is another aspect important here because we are needing traditional skills, because traditional...
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ED-ARCHMAT Project: Facing Challenges in Archaeological/Cultural Heritage Protection and Management
The ED-ARCHMAT (European Doctorate in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Materials Science) EJD aims to train a new generation of creative and entrepreneurial ESR able to face current and future challenges in Archaeological/Cultural...
The European Joint Doctorate in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage MATerials Science ED-ARCHMAT is a project whose goal is to provide future leading professionals with the interdisciplinary and intersectoral knowledge, skills and...
loW Altitude Remote sensing for the Monitoring of the state of Cultural hEritage Sites: building an inTegrated model for maintenance.
WARMEST strategic goal is to create a novel comprehensive Decision Support System that will carry out a...
WARMEST strategic goal is to optimize maintenance procedures in cultural and natural heritage sites through the introduction of new technologies to collect data and new tools to analyse it, creating a novel specific Decision Support System.
Cities and towns have developed along rivers, lakes and seashores, which provide access to environmental heat. In addition to this, waste heat sources are widely spread within the built environement.
With this in mind, the main aim of...
The overall objective of REWARDHeat is to demonstrate a new generation of low-temperature district heating and cooling networks, which will be able to recover renewable and waste heat, available at low temperature.
Looking back at the last decades, where the effects of climate change have clearly brought consequences, Cultural Heritage has been impacted by an increasing number of climate related hazards, posing new challenges to conservators and...
Sustainable Historic Environments hoListic reconstruction through Technological Enhancement and community-based Resilience (SHELTER) is an EU-funded project that aims at developing a data-driven and community-based resilience improvement...
Artificial intelligence, digitalisation, and digital twin technologies have led to many recent advancements. But many more developments are waiting to be discovered and implemented in various sectors. In collaboration with the Kaunas...
The project "SmartWins” aims to boost research for an innovative and carbon-neutral built environment with Digital Twins.
In NEB-STAR, 16 partners will join forces to make the transition to climate-neutral cities inclusive, beautiful and sustainable - for, by and with all stakeholders. Stavanger as the first-generation NEB Lighthouse will provide...
The aim of the NEB-STAR project is co-create co-benefits for the neighbourhood and city through multi-functional use of spaces and infrastructures.
Sustainable energy generation through solar panels or wind turbines has a major disadvantage: no energy is generated on a cloudy day or when it is not windy. Sometimes, more than needed energy is produced. Τhe EU-funded HEAT-INSYDE project...
HEAT-INSYDE project is advancing heat batteries for residential heating and electric systems. A compact and affordable heat storage solution to meet Europe’s transition to renewable energy.
Cities need support to implement their Sustainable Action Plans in line with the ambitious and stringent regulations towards a zero carbon Europe. The EYES HEARTS HANDS Urban Revolution (EHHUR) project will develop and test a co-designed...
The EHHUR project (Eyes Hearts Hands Urban Revolution) new integrated methodology will cover innovative arts and creative co-design in third sector buildings and public areas.
The SuPerTandem project aims to accelerate Europe’s transition to clean energy by developing innovative photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing technologies for 2-terminal tandem cells and monolithically connected modules on flexible foils using...
The SuPerTandem project aims developing sustainable materials and manufacturing processes for the development of high efficiency, flexible, all-Perovskite Tandem photovoltaic modules with low CO2 footprint.
The project will help Member States align energy savings estimates with actual energy savings achieved to increase energy savings across Europe. Given the importance of deemed savings approaches in Member States’ EED reporting, streamSAVE...
streamSAVE aims to assist Member States in their efforts to deliver rapidly scalable savings and increase their chances of successfully meeting energy efficiency targets under Article 3 and 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). A...
European districts play a pivotal role in the achievement of a future low carbon economy. The envisaged actions of the ProLight project are representative for innovative refurbishment with large potential of immediate replication of other...
The EU Funded ProLight project aims to understanding, defining, measuring & assessing of 6 demo progressive lighthouse districts serving as green district gate towards leadership in sustainability.
The build and commissioning of Energy House 2.0 was completed in February 2022 and is the largest research facility of its type. Within Energy House 2.0 there are two environmental chambers each able to accommodate two detached houses and...
The built environment accounts for 40% of the UK’s carbon footprint and to achieve net zero will require a step change in the design of new buildings but also, more importantly, it will require a comprehensive upgrade and retrofit...
Within Horizon Europe, the Built4People partnership (B4P) aims, among other objectives, to connect to a set of national or regional Innovation Clusters in view of maximizing innovation impacts.
The NEBULA projects will build upon this...
The NEBULA projects will build upon the New European Bauhaus Unlocked through Built4People partnership (B4P) endorsed Local Actions.
Smart toolbox for the energy sector
Technology offers a huge range of opportunities for the energy market. By combining the old metering, operation and control devices with smart systems, there’s a huge amount of data available that is...
BD4OPEM creates an open energy marketplace, that offers innovative AI-based services, to enable the efficient management of energy distribution grids and associated assets.
The EU-funded MicroRenew project will develop the manufacturability of a new device that turns food waste into energy. The patented FLEXIBUSTER™ can process up to 3 000 kg of waste per day, reducing the cost of waste transport and disposal...
The EU-funded MicroRenew project will develop renewable Energy Micro Power Plant Using Organic Waste as Fuel. Traditional ways of dealing with organic waste are not sustainable. Urbanisation is putting too much pressure on landfills and...
Islands are typically depended on fossil fuel imports for electricity generation. The decarbonisation of the energy mix is a priority. In this context, the EU-funded GIFT project will develop innovative systems to allow islands to...
GIFT is an innovative project that aims to decarbonise the energy mix of European islands. European islands have to abide by the law of their countries that push toward a greener energy mix to comply with the European and international...
With the EU setting goals for the member states to reduce their energy consumption by year 2020, efficient energy usage is of great significance in the current day Europe. Thus, innovations in the sphere of efficient energy use and...
The main objective of the CHESTER project is the development and validation of an innovative system that allows for energy management, storage and dispatchable supply of many different RES by combining the electricity sector with the heat...