Unlocking the potential of Energy Performance Certificates: a key to greener buildings
Energy Performance Certificates are key to improving building efficiency, but their reliability and harmonisation remain challenging. With ambitious environmental targets at stake, Europe is racing to unlock their full potential and ensure they drive real change.
What is a Plus Energy Building (PEB)?
This Cultural-E infographic explains Plus Energy Buildings (PEB), which generate more energy than they consume annually using local renewables, ensuring low emissions and efficiency.
The Smart Square project in a poster
The Smart Square project develops tools to assess building intelligence through the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI), with audits in pilot buildings, an observatory for monitoring progress, and a call centre issuing over 3,600 ratings.
Boosting building renovation through industrialisation and digital knowledge sharing: the INFINITE approach
Industrialisation and digital knowledge sharing provide a strategic path to accelerating building renovation in Europe. The INFINITE project demonstrates how these approaches address key challenges while ensuring sustainable and scalable outcomes.
'Belonging by connecting': a guide to citizen led, sustainable urban transformations
The guide highlights how local communities are leading sustainable urban transformations through citizen-led co-design, offering insights and frameworks for creating more connected, ecologically sustainable cities.
Making energy efficiency smart: the digiBUILD artificial intelligence initiative
The DigiBUILD project uses artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data services to improve energy efficiency in buildings, reduce emissions, and support the EU's goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.
How to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment: a discussion with Brent Trenga
Brent Trenga, Director of Sustainability at Kingspan North America, highlights the need for the built environment to reduce its 42% carbon footprint by focusing on low-carbon materials, energy-efficient design, and adopting sustainable practices to achieve decarbonisation goals.
Barcelona Building Construmat 2025
Construmat is the International Construction Exhibition of Barcelona, a leading event in the construction sector in Spain and one of the most important in Europe. This year, with the motto 'Materials, Systems and Solutions: Innovation for Sustainable Construction,' the fair positions itself as the ultimate meeting point for the entire value chain; from architects, surveyors, engineers, builders, developers, distributors to all those interested in the construction sector.
Sophie Dourlens-Quaranta: ‘By prioritising future-proof design principles, we empower building owners and operators to stay ahead of regulatory changes, emerging energy models, and evolving occupant needs with minimal disruption’
Building conversations up with... Sophie Dourlens-Quaranta, Managing Partner France at R2M Solution.
ACCORD training materials
Prepare for the ACCORD webinar on March 12 (11.00-12.00 CET) by reviewing training materials and video presentations on BIM-based building permits, automation, compliance, carbon checking, rule formalisation, model quality, and transformation pathways.