
Empowering local net-zero technology manufacturing: a key to Europe's building decarbonisation effort
The regulation Net Zero Industry Act supports manufacturing net-zero technologies, significantly impacting building sector decarbonisation by boosting green technologies like heat pumps, solar panels, and smart facades. The building sector can enhance the act's goals by optimising these technologies' lifecycle impacts and integrating them with energy efficiency and passive heating and cooling systems.
06/06/2024
Editorial team

Rethinking our space: how spatial planning helps building sustainable cities for tomorrow
This article explores the integration of energy, and climate plans into spatial planning and its significance for sustainable urban development.
06/06/2024
Irene Biancani

Technical Article - ARISE Article series 'The Currency of Skills' # 6: Providing Social Mobility
Skills are no longer just a means to an end; they have become an asset in their own right. Just like money, skills can be traded, invested, and accumulated. They have the power to open doors and create opportunities. In a skills-based economy, individuals who possess in-demand skills are more likely to secure high-paying jobs and enjoy greater career mobility.
05/06/2024
Swapna SAHA

Technical Article - Consolidating building data semantics for life cycle assessment
The SemanticLCA project outlines in this article how various technologies, such as BIM models or DT systems, can feed into the Level(s) framework LCA and what ontologies are available to establish a common vocabulary for data consolidation.
04/06/2024
Editorial team

Measuring and reducing embodied carbon in the building envelope
Two case studies of office buildings in Bologna, Italy, benchmark cradle-to-gate upfront carbon emissions of curtain walling. Despite data uncertainties, guidance from the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology (CWCT) aids in managing embodied carbon in aluminium profiles and glazing. This study demonstrates that the choice of low-carbon materials can reduce façade emissions by up to 30%.
04/06/2024
Editorial team

Technical development and use-case aspects of thermoacoustic heat pumps for existing houses
BlueHeart Energy (BHE) is a deep tech start-up and has developed a revolutionary thermoacoustic (TA) heat pump engine. This next generation of heat pump technology provides an alternative for vapour compression techniques and better meets the requirements of existing buildings that are not well met by today's technologies. BHE's TA engine will be supplied business to business to heat pump manufacturers in Europe and beyond.
04/06/2024
Editorial team

Overview Article - Smart buildings and smart technologies in Europe: state of play and perspectives
Digitalisation of buildings is a key component of the EU clean energy transition – smart technologies can enhance energy efficiency, allow buildings to be more responsive to the needs of occupants, and improve the flexibility of energy systems. To support this trend, the EU benefits from a rich and supportive framework – covering policies, programmes and financial instruments. How is the EU specifically shaping the future of buildings and the way we interact with them? How can we make our buildings more intelligent and responsive to the environment? This article provides an overview of the state-of-play and perspectives of digital, smart buildings and technologies in the EU context.
04/06/2024
Editorial team

Article | The currency of skills #2: Economic value
As part of the ARISE Article series, the project addresses in this article the values of skills in the design and construction of qualified workers in society and as individuals. It also delves into how skilled workers can contribute to economic growth and competitiveness in different sectors.
03/06/2024
Swapna SAHA

Article | The Currency of Skills # 4: Lifelong Learning
In this 4th article of the ARISE Currency of Skills series, Martin Kelly, Jan Cromwijk and Jaap Kolk examine the benefits of investing in skills through lifelong learning and outline how skills are the mechanism to bridge the gap between knowledge and wealth.
03/06/2024
Swapna SAHA

Circ-Boost: A new action for circular construction in Europe
The Circ-Boost project aims at boosting the uptake of circular solutions in construction via 5 pilots across Europe and a 3D circular economy web map, harnessing digital technologies for waste management and optimising scalability and adoption.
14/05/2024
Editorial team