Nearly zero-energy buildings

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EASI ZERo Project: Envelope Material System with low Impact for Zero Energy Buildings

EASI ZERo proposes a global system to cut the environmental impact by rising the thermal performance of buildings’ envelope by 20% with bio-sourced and recycled materials. This include grown mycelium, wood fibres,...
With CO2 emission at 36% and energy consumption at 40%, building sector is far from sustainability. The need for construction materials to achieve climate neutral buildings reaches 0.2 m3 per m2 of net floor in France,...
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Mustbe0 project: Affordable, long-term performance guaranteed net zero energy (NZE) retrofits for apartment buildings

The UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands alone have 43 million apartments that are not future proof because there is no compelling deep energy retrofit solution for these buildings available yet. This is key for all countries...
Comfortable homes that people love to live in The award winning Energiesprong net zero energy standard and funding approach provides modern and comfortable homes that people love to live in. After a retrofit, a net...
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AEGIR project - Digital and physical incremental renovation systems enhancing energetic behaviour and use of resources

AEGIR main objective is to demonstrate a physical and digital sustainable framework that boosts the take up of deep retrofitting achieving nearly zero energy buildings.
The project's approach is supported by:   (i) innovative, industrialized, high performance and non-intrusive multifunctional plug-and-play envelope solutions to increase the use of locally deployed renewable technologies. These solutions...
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Major retrofit of a leisure centre in Western Ireland

A major retrofit intervention has allowed to transform an 1960 leisure centre building into a A-rated building with Nearly-Zero Energy Building (NZEB) status. Innovative energy systems and materials have improved...
The Tipperary Energy Agency has completed a successful retrofit of the Lahinch Leisure Centre in Co. Clare, Ireland, improving conditions for customers and decreasing both emissions and costs for managers.   The leisure...
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Ambition requires action: mutual recognition agreements and the upskilling transformation

This event will present the HP4All Project and its work towards skills development and recognition for high-quality HP installation in buildings. HP4All Project aims to analyse the barriers across...
"Ambition requires action: The Heat Pump Accelerator for RepowerEU" Heat Pump Forum & Award 2022 puts heat pumps at the centre of the green, digital, cost-effective energy transition ...
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|Webinar| Energy Efficient Buildings: Next Generation Energy Performance Certificates

Next Generation Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) play an instrumental role in attaining a digitally transformed, healthy, safe, affordable, efficient, flexible and zero-emission EU building stock fit for...
Buildings have challenging and multiple roles to play in the coming decades: they can be shelters from extreme weather, healthy indoor environments, energy-positive and zero-emission, electric vehicle-...
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procuRE selects 3 innovative approaches - Phase I Kick-off

procuRE launched the first out of three phases towards reaching its goal to develop innovative solutions to achieve 100% Renewable Energy Supply in existing public buildings.   The six procurers from Slovenia, Spain,...
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|Webinar| Road to zero-emission buildings: Finding the right skills for a new age of construction

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Road to zero-emission buildings: Finding the right skills for a new age of construction

11 May 2022 16:30 CET

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ECI and Leonardo Energy present the EPBD Series “Road to zero-emission buildings” (https://copperalliance.org/events/epbd/). Join us for the second event in the series and register below.   The energy transition will lead to zero-emission...