Resilient cooling systems are essential for sustainable buildings, necessitating government prioritisation of holistic approaches, incentivisation of adoption, and workforce training to accelerate implementation and achieve long-term sustainability goals.
This report provides an overview of the trends in building and ductwork airtightness in 16 countries around the world, summarising and comparing information.
The final event of the Cooltorise project in Madrid gathered stakeholders to discuss urban initiatives and policies for mitigating the impact of summer heat, featuring prominent speakers and presentations of innovative projects.
The work provides a detailed evaluation of an air heat pump unit installed in a single-family home, focusing on its actual performance. It quantitatively assesses how much energy consumption is reduced by incorporating an air-geothermal heat exchanger.
ECTP organises the 12th Zero-Emission Buildings Academy webinar, launched in partnership with BPIE (Buildings Performance Institute Europe) and ICA Europe (International Copper Association).
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.