The renovation wave requires an integrated, participatory, and neighbourhood-specific approach that is customised to the local environment. A digital tool called RESTO (Renovation Strategy Tool) has been developed to help local municipalities automate calculations for comprehensive renovation strategies, by utilising public databases at the neighbourhood level.

Integrated photovoltaics has emerged as key to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions across different sectors, such as building, transport, and agriculture. This article reviews the competitiveness of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) and Infrastructure-Integrated Photovoltaics (IIPV) in residential applications.

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.

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%.