In this infographic you can learn more about how to apply circular principles in construction, some EU policy instruments for more sustainable buildings and the Level(s) platform, an assessment and reporting tool for sustainability performance of buildings, firmly based on circularity.
streamSAVE aims to assist Member States in their efforts to deliver rapidly scalable savings and increase their chances of successfully meeting energy efficiency targets under Article 3 and 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). A series of activities, divided into three categories, will be carried out with the intent of improving the energy saving methodologies capacities and skills of stakeholders across Europe.
The "Zero Emissions Building & REPowerEU: How to decarbonise heating and cooling" conference will take place on 15th November from 10.00H to 15.00H. This conference is part of the REHVA Brussels Summit.
REGISTER HERE and access to the stream HERE.
When talking about historical heritage and energy efficiency, many actions may cross your mind: you may think of renovation works, improving insulation, repairing cracking, changing supplies, lighting... Any of these actions are valid, together with regular monitoring of consumption to analyse whether the measures taken are truly effective or not. In Europe, 35% of the building stock is more than 50 years old. Even if they are of a certain age, these buildings, of whatever type, are not considered historic. But of that 35%, a small percentage are buildings with decades or even centuries of history, and which deserve particular attention. In this article, some of the main features of energy efficiency projects in historical buildings are reviewed. The success story of the Art Nouveau Site of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is shared.
The project GEOFIT is developing a holistic and novel approach to geothermal retrofitting, which is cost-competitive, easy to install, and capable of providing efficient low-temperature heating & high-temperature cooling by using the most innovative tools and methods. Check out the final results from the last General Assembly of the project.
The EU-funded MicroRenew project will develop renewable Energy Micro Power Plant Using Organic Waste as Fuel. Traditional ways of dealing with organic waste are not sustainable. Urbanisation is putting too much pressure on landfills and making waste management too costly. To reverse this trend, future buildings could process their own organic waste while recapturing the energy, fertiliser and water from it.
A new report published by Oxford-based sustainability consultancy 3Keel for global insulation manufacturer Kingspan assesses the current need for building retrofits, recent progress, and policy commitments in G20 countries and G7 economies. Less than 1% of existing buildings in the major economies are receiving the necessary upgrade, refurbishment or retrofit each year.
The European Skills Registry (ESR) is a web-based Platform providing functions for comparing various qualification schemes and learning outcomes, and allows listing qualified experts in a central experts database connected to a match-making hub.
BD4OPEM creates an open energy marketplace, that offers innovative AI-based services, to enable the efficient management of energy distribution grids and associated assets.
On 8th November, BUILD UP hosted the webinar "Leveraging on standardisation for building data aggregation and analytics", a workshop organised by the BIGG project in collaboration with their sister projects MATRYCS and BUILTHUB.
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE