Tuesday 21 November 2017, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Brussels time (CET)
This webinar tackled the mismatch between the professional skills available and required for the successful design, construction and maintenance of Nearly Zero-Energy...
An innovative way of incorporating end-users behaviour in energy efficiency policy making.
Tuesday 14 November 2017, 10:00 a.m. Brussels time (CET)
We know that incorporating actual end-users behavioural barriers into energy modeling...
15 December 2017, 10:30-12:00 Brussels time (CET)
We spend 90% of our life indoors in buildings, so the quality of the indoor environment has a major impact on our health, well-being, and productivity. The health, comfort and well-being...
Monday 6 November 2017, 14:00-15:30 Brussels time (CET)
Industry stepping up to the challenge of deep renovation
Stimulating the energy renovation market remains one of the biggest challenges. Innovative business models can be powerful...
15 December 2017, 10:30-12:00 Brussels time (CET)
We spend 90% of our life indoors in buildings, so the quality of the indoor environment has a major impact on our health, well-being, and productivity. The health, comfort and well-...
Tuesday 21 November 2017, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Brussels time (CET)
This webinar tackled the mismatch between the professional skills available and required for the successful design, construction and maintenance of Nearly Zero-Energy...
An innovative way of incorporating end-users behaviour in energy efficiency policy making.
Tuesday 14 November 2017, 10:00 a.m. Brussels time (CET)
We know that incorporating actual end-users behavioural barriers into energy modeling...
Monday 6 November 2017, 14:00-15:30 Brussels time (CET)
Industry stepping up to the challenge of deep renovation
Stimulating the energy renovation market remains one of the biggest challenges. Innovative business models can be...
The German Working Group for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of State and Municipal Administrations (AMEV) released in August its Guidelines on Technical Monitoring of buildings. QUANTUM partners synavision and the Institute for...
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What are Test Reference Years (TRYs)?
Test Reference Years are detailed annual climate data rows used primarily in calculation and simulation programmes. They are in most cases not simply measured climate information of a real year at a certain location, but an artificial...
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Why is monitoring so important in demonstration projects?
Pilot or demonstration buildings are made in order to test new innovative technologies or to demonstrate that a defined level of high building energy performance is possible in reality. These buildings are show cases that allow experts and...
In the end of July 2017, the German law on the promotion of tenant electricity (Gesetz zur Förderung von Mieterstrom) entered into force. With this law, tenants shall benefit from the energy transition. In fact, the law promotes landlords...
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What is meant with “Rebound Effect”?
Efficiency measures at the building envelope and the building services systems decrease the operational costs of buildings. But reduced costs can lead to changes in the behaviour of the building users. They consume more energy and parts of...
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Are there EU funded projects – schemes, based on nanomaterials in the construction industry?
The list that follows provides brief information on EU funded projects and clusters in the field of nanomaterials:
ADAPTIWALL project used multi-functional light-weight wall panel based on adaptive insulation and nanomaterials for...
Titania (TiO2) is suitable for several environmental applications such as air purifier, waste water treatment cleaning, water disinfection and photo-induced hydrophilic coating with self-cleaning properties. It can be incorporated in bulk...
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What are the critical parameters in the use of nanomaterials in the building sector?
The selection of the appropriate matrix is of importance since it can affect the effectiveness of nanomaterials, or even react in such a way that unwanted by-products may be produced.
The presence of dissolved oxygen in the liquid...
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What are the uses of Photocatalysis in the building environment?
There are many examples of photocatalysts aimed at reducing urban depollution applied on photocatalytic pavements. Titanium dioxide (Titania) is being explored as a component, but the correct method of applying photocatalysts in pavements...
The size of the nanoparticles is an important factor, when it comes to the photocatalytic performance. Nanomaterials with smaller particles are expected to provide better photocatalytic activity.
In order to enhance the photocatalytic...
Self-cleaning/photocatalytic properties are known since the 1960s, but they have only recently been widely exploited. The first application was on the church ‘‘Dives in Misericordia” in Rome. It is composed of 346 self-cleaning concrete...
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What is photocatalysis and how does it work?
Photocatalysis is the activity occurring when a light source interacts with the surface of semiconductor materials, the so called photocatalysts. During this process, there must be at least two simultaneous reactions occurring, oxidation...