Low tech and low carbon do not mean the end of technology.
On the contrary, these Green Solutions Awards seem to show that "technosalvation" is not the only alternative on well-designed projects.
A look back at the 2019 trends in this...
5th generation heating and cooling networks are now showing up with the promise of new services.
What are these new services and how can blockchain technology facilitate their implementation?
Heating and cooling accounts for 50% of the...
What makes a great woman a leader in the construction industry? On 26 September 2019, at Centrale Lille, 20 women with an exceptional career path from Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland) and beyond (Canada...
We often speak wrongly of sustainable cities, forgetting that any construction, whatever its scale, is part of a whole from which it is inseparable.
In 2019, a clear trend is emerging, namely to take into account the spatial, but also...
This Spring 2019, STARDUST’s Lighthouse city of Tampere networked with various local stakeholders in order to develop the different STARDUST smart urban solutions within the city.
On March 2019, the City of Tampere organised...
While energy efficiency via retrofitting old buildings and giving more control to citizens over their energy demand are part of the Cologne project, just as they are in many other European cities, the CO2 emissions produced by urban...
The annual rate of home and commercial building renovation is well under the 3% required to achieve European climate and energy goals. There is a need to accelerate investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions to boost...
The 41st AIVC & ASHRAE IAQ joint Conference “IAQ 2020: Indoor Environmental Quality Performance Approaches Transitioning from IAQ to IEQ” will be held from the 14th to the 16th of September 2020 in Athens, Greece together with the 9th ...
Second opus of our trend analysis of the 2019 Green Solutions Awards.
A short tour in warm climates, where building resilience and adaptation are essential. 2.1. The resilient building: a reality
The construction resilient buildings...
Low-tech is trendy in our Western societies, it is also trendy in the 2019 Green Solutions Awards to the point of competing with a major player in sustainable development: the passive.
Explanation and discovery of case studies. 3.1....
One of the European Union‘s most ambitious projects is to achieve an intelligent energy transition resulting in a sustainable, competitive and secure energy system for all Member States.
And to achieve this goal, one of the tools the EU...
One of the aspects that we will venture to describe as positive in these Green Solutions Awards is the consideration of the carbon footprint.
Few buildings, of course, offer a formal life cycle analysis (which is a matter of debate), but...
Heating and cooling in our buildings and industry accounts for half of the EU’s energy consumption.
In EU households, heating and hot water alone accounts for 79% of total final energy use (9.348 PJ); for Belgian households, the share of...
The ExcEED platform provides different tools featuring building performance in operational conditions, allowing you, as a platform user, to visualise the energy and comfort data of your building; assess your buildings’ performance through...
The right performance of a building directly relates to higher comfort and thus to better living conditions for the users. Less unexpected maintenance costs and improved comfort conditions positively influence the real estate value...
AZEB studied the use of indicators for measuring the social performance of a building. The social performance of two AZEB case studies, in Spain and Bulgaria, was investigated.
The study shows how the European...
With 192 case studies in 36 countries, the 2019 Green Solutions Awards have been an unexpected success and have seen strong international growth.
The most represented label is Passivhaus, with no less than 15 case studies from 11...
Who are the international winners of the 2019 Green Solutions Awards?
You will get the answer on the 4th of November, at Batimat, partner of the competition,
A ceremony bringing together, from all over the world, the pioneers in...
Decarbonizing the heat sector is imperative to meeting carbon emissions reduction objectives across Europe. However, progress so far has been sluggish in most European countries.
Sweden is an exception with 80% of its heat coming from...
With almost 200 case studies from 36 different countries, the 2019 Green Solutions Awards provided a fine example of what is being done today to build more sustainable cities and territories.
First opus of our trend analysis. 1.1....