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Highlighted Practices
- 21 Mar 2023
- Pan European
One of the greatest challenges in construction is how to effectively share information between all stakeholders during the entire lifetime of the building. The amount of data generated by a building asset can be significant, and...
- 17 Mar 2023
- Pan European
The energy performance of buildings (both residential and non-residential) is crucial for the ever-increasing demands, costs of the energy market, and its balance, especially during the all-encompassing and (reality-driven) demanded transition to...
- 9 Mar 2023
- Pan European
Measurement and verification (M&V) of energy savings is fundamentally an impact assessment problem, where the goal is to estimate the counterfactual energy consumption, i.e., what would the energy consumption of a building have been had an...
- 28 Feb 2023
- France
The Entech smart energies is an industrial building specialised in electrical energy storage and conversion in France and abroad. The building is a timber construction and it has...
- 27 Feb 2023
- Pan European
Historic and traditional buildings account for between 10% and 40% of the EU building stock, depending on country and age (Webb 2017). Some are also subjected to legal preservation because of their heritage value....
- 7 Feb 2023
- France
This project won the Grand Prize in the "Residential buildings / new construction" category of the 2022 Circular Buildings Trophies. The project has been developed by the designer and resident Célia Auzou.
As she explained, she...
- 31 Jan 2023
- Pan European
The 2022 REPowerEU[1] plan considers the electrification of the heating and cooling sector as one of the strategic pathways towards reducing natural gas imports. Reversible heat pumps can cover the space heating, space...
- 27 Jan 2023
- Germany
The 17th century farm house Ritterhof has been renovated by architect Michael Felkner and it is now home if his office, family´s flat, grocery shop and granny flat.
The architect has developed a utilisation (and...
- 24 Jan 2023
- Pan European
What makes a façade intelligent?
Opaque façade technologies have incrementally evolved both in new construction a by increasing their thermal insulation and airtightness levels aiming to reduce the overall energy demand from the buildings...
- 11 Jan 2023
- France
Energy Cities has published this innovative case study of the city of Bordeaux and the development of its district heating network in order to attain to the mitigation and adaptation measures for...
- 10 Jan 2023
- Pan European
Nomenclature
ENVISION is a H2020 EU funded project that aims to develop technologies for harvesting energy using all the available surfaces of a building. In particular, the ones not commonly used such as building façades....
- 23 Dec 2022
- Pan European
In the building sector, and especially in offices and commercial areas, roofs have traditionally been considered to just be spaces to place equipment, such as Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and associated subsystems, cooling towers...
- 19 Dec 2022
- Pan European
The PLURAL project
PLURAL aims to design, validate, and demonstrate a palette of versatile, adaptable, and scalable, off-site prefabricated plug and play facades that take into account the needs of users (‘...
- 13 Dec 2022
- Spain
When we transpose the three R’s of the circular economy ‘Reduce, Re-use, Recycle’ to energy in buildings, the specific application of these generic terms becomes ‘Reduction of energy demand, Efficient installations, Renewable...
- 11 Dec 2022
- Germany
The German hybrid construction specialist, Brüninghoff, has built a new concrete element plant. Metsä Wood’s Kerto LVL L-panels and Kerto LVL T-studs have been used for the prefabricated non-load-bearing wall elements...
- 11 Dec 2022
- France
Residence of 16 passive dwellings with all comforts and very low charges for the social landlord Vilogia in Roncq on the former site of Actival II, a former cloth weaving mill which merged in 1965 with the Ets Motte-Dewavrin.
Thermal...
- 5 Dec 2022
- Pan European
Heritage conservation has always drawn the necessary information for the preservation of monuments, art and cultural assets from the individual scientific disciplines and linked this information to get statements related to the specific heritage...
- 28 Nov 2022
- Pan European
Every professional involved in any way in the European construction industry should be well aware of Churchill’s broad concept of the reciprocal effect of the building design and the wellbeing of its users. With carefully selected words he stated...
- 23 Nov 2022
- Spain
Main facts:
Project type: Renovation of the thermal envelope and incorporation of photovoltaic panels
Building type: Multifamily social housing
Building location: Block A of the...
- 13 Nov 2022
- Croatia
Zagreb’s Upper Town is known for its narrow streets, tourist attractions and hidden courtyards of buildings built in the 19th century. Right next to the world’s shortest funicular (66 m), in the Upper Town, is a residential building...