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Villa Castelli - Italy

  • 18 Dec 2019
  • Italy
Villa Castelli is a listed building from the 19th century located at the riverside of Lake Como (Italy). The owners set the ambitious goal of renovating the Villa, which had belonged to the family for about 140 years, to the lowest...
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Downie's Cottage

  • 18 Dec 2019
  • United Kingdom
This project was the refurbishment of an early 19th C croft house. 3-bay, single-storey and attic, rectangular-plan crofting cottage situated on high ground overlooking Braemar village in the Cairngorms National Park. Rubble with lime...
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Tmrees20 Int'l Conference - Athens 2020

  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Greece

The TMREES conference series has as a general philosophy to bring together different disciplines of the global research community, in order to discuss, present and network the latest developments and innovations in sustainability, as well as...

  “TMREES Conference Series: Technologies and Materials for Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability” aim to promote sustainable, healthy and diverse ecosystems; encourage & support the Sustainability and...
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Webinar – Durability of building airtightness- assessment through field measurements

  • 13 Dec 2019
  • Undefined

Mandatory or voluntary building airtightness testing has come gradually into force in many European countries mostly because of the increasing weight of building leakage energy impact on the overall energy performance of low-energy buildings....

The objective of this webinar is to share information on the durability of building airtightness evaluated through field measurements. Information provided will help the participants understand how building airtightness changes over time...
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CALL FOR ABSTRACS 11th International Conference Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings and Smart Communities - IEECB&SC’20

  • 13 Dec 2019
  • Germany
The commercial (i.e. non-residential) buildings, public buildings and urban areas are the fastest growing energy consuming sectors and a key area where the CO2 reduction could be achieved in a cost-effective manner. This is mainly due to...
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BRICKER project

  • 12 Dec 2019
  • Undefined

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 609071

A scalable, replicable, high energy efficient, zero emissions and cost effective SYSTEM to refurbish existing public-owned non-residential buildings to achieve at least 50% energy consumption reduction through:   a) A systemic methodology...
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BREASER project

  • 12 Dec 2019
  • Undefined

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 637186.

Breakthrough solutions for adaptable envelopes for building refurbishment BRESAER will design, develop and demonstrate an innovative, cost-effective, adaptable and industrialized envelope system for building refurbishment. This system will...
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Restaurant KOH – Barcelona, Spain

  • 11 Dec 2019
  • Spain
In the center of the "Poblenou" neighborhood of Barcelona, the "Koh" restaurant has been renovated, following the EnerPhit / Passivhaus protocol. "Koh" means "island" in Thai, and thus reflects the idea of ​​the owner, of creating a...