Designing an Irresistible Circular Society (DESIRE) aims to create an alternative way forward for the built environment supporting the EU mission of ‘100 climate-neutral and smart cities’. Against seemingly insurmountable challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion we need to rethink our approach to finding solutions.
The EU Mission 100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030 states that while cities represent only 4% of the EU’s land area are home to 75% of EU citizens, contributing to more than 65% of energy consumption and for more than 70% of CO2 emissions. As such, they have the potential to help the EU to reduce climate emissions by 55 % by 2030 and to become climate-neutral by 2050. The EU-funded CITIES 4.0 project aims to translate the European Climate Policy at the regional and local levels. The consortium consists of four innovation ecosystem partners from Brainport Eindhoven, Leuven, Turku and Bologna.
The 12th December from 10.00H to 11.30H CET, the Switch2Save project organised a webinar entitled "Lightweight switchable smart solutions for energy saving glass facades". The session was hosted by BUILD UP.
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2022 has been one of the most hectic years for the energy sector: energy crisis, consumption reduction, and zero carbon objectives. This has only strengthened the challenges Energy professionals have been facing for many years now. More than ever, the objective of sustainable energy management is at the heart of the public debate, notably due to the reinforcement of regulations and the awareness of the energy and ecological transition. This call is crucial if we want to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible.
EPC4SES will celebrate its final conference with the title "EPC based Digital Building Twins for Smart Energy Systems" on December 15th to provide a final overview of the project activities and general outcomes.
The BIGG project organized on November 8 the standardization workshop “Leveraging on standardisation for building data aggregation and analytics” in collaboration with the sister projects MATRYCS and BuiltHub and hosted by BUILDUP.
The CINDERELA Project has developed the CinderOSS tool which is a One-Stop-Shop service representing a digital business environment and supporting new business models for a sustainable urban construction. The tool is currently an open beta version.
The International Energy Agency has just published "Energy Efficiency 2022" which provides an analysis of the global trends and developments about energy efficiency investments, technology, innovation, demand and policies.
Creating NEBourhoods Together proposes Munich-Neuperlach as test-bed for urban innovation landscapes.
This study aims to assist the Commission with identifying policy options that support the uptake of “Circular economy principles for buildings’ design” in European, national and local policies. The goal is to increase the service life of buildings, and facilitate the use of secondary materials.