Renovating the EU building stock
Deep renovation of buildings has the potential to cut 36% of their energy consumption by 2030, while reducing the EU’s dependency on imported energy, creating growth, innovation and employment, reducing fuel poverty...
The Renovate Europe Campaign celebrated its annual REDay beacon event on the 8th of October 2019 in the European Parliament. Gathering building sector stakeholders, experts and policymakers this ninth edition was hosted by MEP Pernille Weiss (EPP,...
Transformation of 530 Dwellings, a renovation of 1960s housing in France by Frédéric Druot Architecture, Lacaton & Vassal Architectes and Christophe Hutin Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award...
Introduction
BIM is a key part of the fourth revolution (digitalisation) of the AEC industry (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) and an enabling tool for a cleaner and more sustainable build environment.
This has been recognised...
by BIMcert team
The seven BIMcert project partners combined to produce an opinion piece on BIMcert and the area of energy efficiency in buildings called ‘BIM: Enabling Energy Management and Control for the Construction Sector’.
In general terms, the Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the allocation of unique identifiers (such as IP addresses) to physical objects. Those identifiers enable objects to connect to a network allowing the transfer of data to and from...
What makes you think BIM is the way forward for the construction sector to meet carbon emission targets?
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) the global buildings sector is now responsible for 36% of global final energy...
by BIMcert team
In this compendium the 7 BIMcert partners give an explanation of the BIMcert project by answering questions from the European construction audience:
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Addressing fuel poverty
Energy poverty, or fuel poverty, is often defined as a situation where low-income households are not able to adequately provide basic energy services in their homes and for their transport at affordable cost. A widely used criterion is to...
Analyst Brief - November 2019
DOKVAST developed a sustainable and high-quality distribution centre for Rhenus Contract Logistics at the industrial area Het Laar in Tilburg. The distribution centre, named “The Tube”, consists of three linked compartments with mezzanine...
The objective of the Horizon 2020 RenOnBill project is to scale up investments towards deep energy renovations of residential buildings, by promoting the development and implementation of on-bill schemes, based on the cooperation between...
The buildings and construction sector accounted for 36% of final energy use and 39% of energy and process-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2018, 11% of which resulted from manufacturing building materials and products such as...
Towards a zero-emissions, efficient and resilient buildings and construction sector.
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Supporting digitalisation of the construction sector and SMEs, including Building Information Modelling
Digitalisation of the economy is one of the priorities set by the European Union (EU). The Strategy for a Digital Single Market, developed by the European Commission (EC) in 2015, outlined the path for the EU to build the right digital...