Together with communities and experts on the ground, 10 dedicated partners participate in this project and are shaping the envisaged by the EU Affordable Housing Initiative 100 lighthouse projects by creating blueprints for a just energy...
European Affordable Housing Consortium: Sustainable Housing for Social Impact. SHAPE-EU is the point of reference for a socially-inclusive Renovation Wave and New European Bauhaus.
OpenHeritage aims at creating sustainable models of heritage asset management. The project puts the idea of inclusive governance of cultural heritage sites together with development of heritage communities at its center. This means...
OpenHeritage project aims to Organizing, Promoting and enabling Heritage Reuse through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance and Empowerment.
EXPERT TALKS series is an initiative from the BUILD UP portal. In the form of face-to-face interviews, experts from all around Europe and covering the field of Energy Efficiency in buildings from different perspectives share their views,...
"Prefabrication is key to circular construction for several reasons. It is well known that prefabrication offers significant savings in costs of production of the component; time for the construction on-site and minimisation of the waste...
The building sector is the largest energy consumer in the Mediterranean area. Most buildings are energy inefficient as lack of interventions over time have led to increase annual energy consumption and CO2 emissions. To tackle these common...
The SOLE project aims to enhance the capacity of public institutions to plan and implement sustainable energy policies in Mediterranean countries.
The European Commission’s policy framework (i.e. Clean Energy Package, FiT for 55) seeks to decarbonise the energy system, encouraging the electrification of heat and transport, as well as the connection of more clean but intermittent...
ENFLATE aims to provide smart grid innovative technologies, peer-to-peer market platforms for consumers, smart building and local community cross vector flexibility services, integration of consumer centered flexibility with pan European...
The renovation packages designed by the project will combine state-of-the-art construction materials and technologies components (prefabricated facades, BIPV, heat pumps, etc.), innovative digital technologies for measurement and...
The overall vision of FORTESIE is to design, demonstrate, validate and replicate innovative renovation packages in the building industry with Smart Performance-Based guarantees and financing, aiming at Efficient, Sustainable and Inclusive...
Today's building permit issuance is mainly a manual, document-based process. It therefore suffers from low accuracy, low transparency and low efficiency. This leads to delays and errors in planning, design and construction. Several EU...
The aim of this project is to simplify the processes of issuing building permits through digitalisation, in order to make them more transparent and efficient.
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 zero apartment generates...
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 to achieve...
What is an Energiesprong retrofit?
After an Energiesprong retrofit, a home is net zero energy, meaning it generates the total amount of energy required for its heating, hot water and electrical appliances. It also provides superior indoor...
Energiesprong is a revolutionary, whole house refurbishment and new built standard and funding approach. Mission: scale this approach to international markets.
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...
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.
Through EBENTO, citizens will increase their implication in building energy efficiency enhancement, and both public institutions and energy communities will be able to identify potential energy efficiency improvements in residential...
EBENTO is aiming to develop an integrated platform for all actors involved in building and renovation sector to provide one-stop-shop to better coordinate and manage Energy Performance Contracting, bringing together the needs from all...
Sam Ramadori was one of the key speakers in the Opening Plenary session entitled "Innovation Trends in Horizon Europe and the Market". This session touched on several trends in Horizon Europe and the market at large.
These include...
"AI makes the building less blind to make the building alive" (Sam Ramadori)
EXPERT TALKS series is an initiative from the BUILD UP portal. In the form of face-to-face interviews, experts from all around Europe and covering the field of...
The Building2050 Group has been involved in the development of different research projects on the implementation of innovative systems and technologies to improve the energy efficiency of the built environment.
BIM-UP (2020–2021),...
Providing assistance for the formulation and coordination of multilateral research projects
Current technology and systems supporting sustainable construction methods are ill-suited to the conflict-affected, often resource-strapped settings where the ICRC works. This project will adapt and extend existing technology and systems...
Adaptation of existing technologies that promote sustainable construction to provide guidance on how to use environmental impact assesment tools in humanitarian action.
This proposal aims at supporting the work which has been carried out by the secretariat of the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling since 2009. The secretariat provides support to the structure of...
The role of the secretariat is to assist the stakeholders of the RHC-ETIP in coordinating activities related to the implementation of a research and innovation strategy to increase the use of renewable energy sources for heating and...
The Smart Living Lab building aims to provide not only a high-quality workspace but also a research infrastructure meant as a true living and scalable laboratory that deploys cutting-edge environmental technologies. To ensure the...
Despite being recognized as the most dangerous carcinogenic substance of natural origin in indoor air, radon is still largely overlooked by the construction sector. For this reason, integrating preventive and protective building measures...
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InnovEM project
The physical infrastructure consists in a detached office unit, fully equipped with a heat pump, solar thermal and photovoltaic panels, thermal and electrochemical storage. The testing of new energy management procedures developed in the...
The goal of the InnovEM project is the development of a demonstrator for testing the viability of new energy-management systems in a building developed in the smart living lab.
The ETIP PV Secretariat proposal (EUPV+) is designed to re-strengthen the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV) by implementing a strong and pro-active Secretariat which will provide effective support to...
This project aims to support to all stakeholders from the Photovoltaic sector and related sectors to contribute to the SET-Plan.
This improvement is achieved by introducing a novel set of tools for identifying sources and tracing a variety of pollutants and pathogens, for enhancing understanding of their effects and assessing their impact on health, for controlling...
TwinAIR aims to improve urban life by tackling the challenge of indoor air quality (IAQ) improvement by understating its complex interrelationship with external factors.
During the interview, Laffont-Eloire answers questions about how does architecture and construction 4.0 relate to building smartness and gives some examples of projects enhancing the European building renovation rates.
Karine Laffont-...
EXPERT TALKS series is an initiative from the BUILD UP portal. In the form of face-to-face interviews, experts from all around Europe and covering the field of Energy Efficiency in buildings from different perspectives share their views,...