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Building Operation and Maintenance

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Webinar| Dumb buildings with smart users? Linking building performance & human well being

This Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) webinar wants to link building performance to human wellbeing. We will introduce you into cognitive buildings, let you rethink comfort and show how you can include user satisfaction.

Event

3DBAG project: 3D Modelling in higher dimensions

The ERC project Urban Modelling in higher dimensions (UMnD) has developed a solution for detailed 3D Building models Automatically Generated for very large areas (3DBAG). This prototype was applied to generate detailed 3D models for all 10 million buildings in The Netherlands.

Link

02/09/2022

The future of cold climate air source heat pumps

As the electrification is growing, cold climate air source heat pumps are starting to substitute thermal loads which are served by fossil-fuels. It is therefore important to assess their implementation and performance in the residential sector.

Publication

01/09/2022

BIPV project

Smart Living Lab project target is the design and monitoring of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) for achieving the environmental targets and the research requirements.

Link

31/08/2022

Sustainable MED Cities project

This project provides integrated tools and methodologies for sustainable Mediterranean cities.

Link

31/08/2022

Webinar - Renovating History: How to bring historic buildings into the 21st century

On Monday 11th of July 2022, EuroACE – Energy Efficient Buildings hosted the second event of its EPBD Webinar Series named “Renovating History: how to bring historic buildings into the 21st century”. Watch it here.

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Efficiency House Plus conformant Extension of Primary School

Due to increasing pupil numbers and structural change, the Municipality of Giebelstadt in Germany decided to add an extension building to the existing main building of the Giebelstadt Primary School. The new building provides space for the after-school programme and was built conformant with the Efficiency House Plus standard.

Case study

30/08/2022

Pro-GET-onE & e-SAFE cluster event – Deep energy renovation of residential buildings with seismic strengthening approaches

On 16th September 2022, the e-SAFE and ProGETonE projects will organize a cluster event in Athens. As e-SAFE, ProGETonE is a H2020 project that address deep energy renovation strategies combined with seismic strengthening approaches; however, ProGETonE is at its conclusion, while e-SAFE will start soon the renovation process in its real pilot in Catania.

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Infographic - How smart can a building be?

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OVERVIEW ARTICLE - Overcoming the main barriers to the uptake of building retrofit through an industrialised approach

How can digitalisation and industrialisation accelerate deep renovation in the building industry? Prefabricated technologies have theoretically high potentials, but stakeholders are still skeptical in adopting them. More and more projects are now proving that these technologies can lead to many advantages in terms of time and costs.

Overview Article

08/07/2022

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