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Lettera al Ministro dell´ambiente e sicurezza energetica su come modernizzare il patrimonio edilizio italiano

Varie associazioni (tra cui Associazione Italiana Building Automation and Control System, European Alliance to Save Energy, Kyoto Club, eu.bac, ecc.) hanno mandato una lettera al Ministro dell´ambiente e della sicurezza energetica...
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Overview Article - State of the art of the digitalisation of the building sector

Buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of EU energy consumption and 36% of the energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings are therefore the single largest energy consumer in Europe. Heating, cooling and domestic hot water...
Digital technologies, tools, and European initiatives are aiming to implement the digital transition across the building sector. These can be used at all stages of the value chain, from design and construction to operation and maintenance...
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Provisional guidance on the implementation of the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI)

The European Commission supports an harmonised implementation of the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) throughout all Member States who have the choice whether to implement it as a test phase. This guidance serves for those Member States who...
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Headquarters of the Order of Architects Réunion in Saint Denis (France)

This project won the Grand Prize in the "Tertiary Buildings" category of the Circular Buildings Trophies 2022. The project involves renovating and raising a "concrete hut" typical of 21st century Reunionese architecture. Moreover, the...
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Net-zero buildings helping to halve embodied carbon emissions

The report provides insights into strategies and measures that companies are taking to halve the embodied carbon emissions, which refer to building materials and construction processes, by 2030. Hence, the focus is on how to achieve the...
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Europe has to decarbonise heating and cooling to save climate

Heating and cooling account for half of the final EU energy use, therefore decarbonising them is crucial to meet the future targets. There are currently more options to decarbonise heating and cooling, apart from biomass, and that is...
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How digital twins in construction can affect the development of future projects

Digital twins in construction are gaining more and more interest in the construction industry and they can revolutionise the way construction projects are developed and managed. A digital twin can provide a digital copy of a building or an...
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Technical Article - The HiBERtool: How to find the suitable Historic Building Energy Retrofit solution for your house

Energy retrofit of historic buildings often represents a challenge for owners and practitioners. They feel that they lack knowledge and do not have access to suitable solutions. Where to start – the envelope or the heating system? Which...
Experts from the IEA SHC Task 59 and the Interreg project, ATLAS, make available a range of more than 130 energy retrofit solutions for historic buildings – via the best practice collection in the HiBERatlas and the online decision...
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Improving energy efficiency in public buildings in Medjimurje county

The Medjimurje county in Croatia has to solve issues with increased energy consumption and consequently high levels of GHG emissions. Medjimurje Energy Agency Ltd. (MENEA) has implemented several projects to improve energy efficiency of...
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Metered energy savings and pay-for-performance schemes to improve energy efficiency of the European building stock

SENSEI project aims at improving energy efficiency in European building stock by implementing smart energy services. In particular, the project supports the pay-for-performance (P4P) concept for designing public programmes to increase...
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Entech smart energies - Passive building in Quimper (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 renewables installed, such as a photovoltaic system with...
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Innovations from EU-funded projects about smart buildings - 2023 edition

Smartbuilt4eu project has released an updated version of the brochure about EU-funded projects´ innovations about smart buildings. Specifically, this brochure provides detailed factsheets of 101 projects which have been selected by...
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Technical Article - Smart textiles for the retrofitting and monitoring of cultural heritage buildings

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. In Italy, for instance,...
The STRETCH project aims to develop a hybrid structural-plus-energy retrofit with structural health monitoring tailored for masonry cultural heritage building envelopes. The innovative multifunctional system integrates textile-reinforced...
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EPBD: Recognise sector coupling solutions to foster demand-side flexibility of buildings - Joint Statement

In the context of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) revision, 12 industry associations, call for an ambitious, forward-looking, and comprehensive definition for demand-side flexibility. The signatories of the letter...
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Modular factory in Erlenbach am Main, Germany

The office building is part of the MoFa Building Project, which stands for Modular Factory and consists of a turn-key product for customers who are interested in a sustainable and integral solution comprising both the technology and the...
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Future technologies for smart buildings

The Smartbuilt4eu project supports the Smart Building Innovation Community through several EU-funded projects, which are presented in the brochure. The two main objectives of the project are indeed to: facilitate the exchange of...
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Building a roadmap to decarbonise Ireland

The construction and built environment sector accounts for 37% of Ireland´s carbon emissions.The roadmap assesses the impact of the construction and built environment in Ireland across the whole life cycle. More than a third (14%) comes...
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The role of digital twins in accelerating the energy transition

What is the role of digital twins in pushing forward the energy transition and in creating community energy systems? Generating and sharing local power in community energy systems (CES) is now more accessible thanks to the advancement in...
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Energy Technology: perspectives for 2023 by IEA

Covid-19, geopolitical instability, soaring energy and material prices are affecting the pace of the energy transition. The report explores risks and opportunities for the scaling up of clean energy technologies (e.g. solar panels, wind...
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Stocktake on available good planning practices: the IN-PLAN introduction to an integrated vision for energy, climate, mobility, and spatial planning

This report introduces an integrated vision for energy, climate, mobility, and spatial planning and takes stock of good planning practices to feed the “IN-PLAN practice”. The IN-PLAN practice is a long-lasting support structure enabling...
Integrated planning has gained increasing relevance in tackling complex planning challenges and facilitating the local implementation of actions to meet energy, climate, and sustainability targets. Achieving the EU objectives to become...