New cooling fabric for buildings reduces heat from sunlight and thermal radiation
Researchers have developed a cooling fabric that, when applied to buildings, can reduce internal temperatures by mitigating heat from sunlight and thermal radiation.
Balancing Canada's housing goals and climate commitments
Researchers at the University of Toronto Engineering propose using sustainable construction practices to meet Canada's housing goals without surpassing climate commitments, based on their FIG model forecasting emissions reductions.
Deutsche Bahn railway station in Munich's Haar district
Deutsche Bahn's new sustainable railway station in Munich's Haar district, built with locally sourced wood, includes LED lighting, a heat pump, and upcoming solar panels, showcasing efforts to reduce carbon footprint in construction.
European Energy Efficiency Conference 2025
The Energy Efficiency Conference will show how to realise the high policy ambitions and how to strengthen energy efficiency demand and markets.
Facade Design and Engineering programme at SDU
The University of Southern Denmark’s FACETS lab offers a Facade Design and Engineering programme focusing on AI and Industry 4.0 technologies to advance sustainable construction practices.
CLIMA 2025
Buildings for the climate of the future: the key role of the HVAC sector.
ElectroCool Project
Toward efficient and environmentally-friendly cooling using active electrocaloric regeneration.
CharCool Project
Rethinking the future of clean cooling through a revolutionary class of thermally-driven chiller based on a novel bio-based thermochemical material.
18th CISBAT International Conference on the Built Environment in Transition: call for papers
The CISBAT 2025 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, invites abstracts on energy efficiency, renewable technologies, and circularity by 31 October 2024, for a hybrid event focusing on the transition to carbon neutrality in the built environment.
HYDROCOOL Project
Novel advanced hydraulic CO2 refrigeration system for multiple sectors.