The building sector, as it stands today, is a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union. It remains highly dependent on fossil fuels, has yet to embrace circularity, and is not seeing the renovation activity necessary to meet climate goals and improve people’s wellbeing.
Post date: 23 okt 2020
Type: Publication
Understanding end-user perspectives is crucial for the development and roll-out of new features for energy performance certificates (EPCs). Without a full insight into what end- users want and need for the next generation of EPCs it will be difficult to make effective use of these new features.
Post date: 23 okt 2020
Type: Publication
The kick-off meeting of the PLURAL project “Plug-and-use renovation with adaptable lightweight systems”, was held remotely on 12th and 13th of October 2020 and was organized by the project coordinator National Technical University of Athens from Greece. PLURAL project aims to design, validate and demonstrate a palette of versatile, adaptable, scalable, off-site prefabricated Plug-and-Use kits.
Post date: 22 okt 2020
Type: Nieuws
On 10 November 2020, join us for the CONDAP online event: “Green, digital and communication skills for mentors in construction apprenticeships”, organised by the European Builders Confederation (EBC) in relation to the Erasmus + project CONDAP and in the framework of the European Vocational Skills Week 2020.
Post date: 22 okt 2020
Type: Evenement
In three online live sessions and with practical online exercises, participants will be trained to apply the free THERMOS energy planning software.
Post date: 21 okt 2020
Type: Evenement
The domOS project is 36-months research financed by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union (EU) aims at developing and prototyping technologies for the digitalization of existing buildings. Digitalized buildings will implement a series of smart services, mostly related to energy:
Post date: 21 okt 2020
Type: Nieuws
Increasing the energy performance of the EU building stock is key for the EU to achieve its climate and energy goals. However, annually only around 0.2% to 0.3% of buildings across Europe are undergoing deep renovation (aiming at achieving energy savings of at least 60% compared to pre-renovation energy consumption levels) and the average owner or user often considers such actions as too expensive.
Post date: 21 okt 2020
Type: Nieuws
Introduction: the MedZEB approach The development of the retrofitting market is a significant challenge throughout Europe. This challenge faces particular conditions in the Mediterranean region due e.g. to its environmental and climatic factors, to the structure of the ownership and of the built stock, to social and economic factors, and to the consequences of economic crisis, which struck European Med countries with a higher impact than the other countries in Europe.
Post date: 21 okt 2020
Type: Nieuws
The workshop “Innovative solutions supporting the NZEB renovation of the EU residential buildings, contributing to the renovation wave” will highlight how the renovation wave can be boosted through structured and holistic approaches which have been implemented through five different H2020 Projects –REZBUILD, ReCO2ST, RenoZEB, StepUP and
Post date: 21 okt 2020
Type: Evenement
Webinar 8 – Example calculations with the set of EPB standards – (2) Energy needs combined with specific systems (12h00 – 13h30 – 20th October 2020)
Post date: 21 okt 2020
Type: Nieuws