This case study presents the energy rehabilitation of a facade of a social housing building located in Catalonia through the installation of an innovative, prefabricated, and modular facade system that integrates active and passive technologies and circular economy principles.
The 43rd AIVC conference "Ventilation, IEQ and health in sustainable buildings" will be held on 4 & 5 October 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark together with the 11th TightVent conference and the 9th venticool conference. The conference will take place at Aalborg University Copenhagen.
The European Joint Doctorate in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage MATerials Science ED-ARCHMAT is a project whose goal is to provide future leading professionals with the interdisciplinary and intersectoral knowledge, skills and competences needed to address the challenges faced in the analysis, valorization, conservation and fruition for future generations of Cultural Heritage.
Within the REPLACE project, this best practice shows an energy efficient renovation made to an apartment of a 1850 building. In particular, the heating system has been replaced to an air-water heat pump which has allowed to reach energy savings.
WARMEST strategic goal is to optimize maintenance procedures in cultural and natural heritage sites through the introduction of new technologies to collect data and new tools to analyse it, creating a novel specific Decision Support System.
The architecture of this multi-functional building strengthens the conditions for a strong inside-outside relationship, enforces human-nature ties and environmental awareness. Dry wood construction and bio-based materials have been used to reduce the carbon footprint. It also uses renewable energy, such as solar photovoltaics, wood boilers and heat pumps.
INFINITE project has just published the November newsletter with the latest news and developments of the project and upcoming events. INFINITE aims at increasing the market penetration of industrialised all-in building envelope kits for the deep renovation, as competitive, reliable, stakeholders-accepted and life-cycle-based sustainable approach.
The INCREAS project, Innovation and Creative Solutions for Cultural Heritage, presents the online conference "Heritage Related Skills in Europe – Risks, Enhancement, and Digital Perspective" that will take place on 26th November.
Sustainable Historic Environments hoListic reconstruction through Technological Enhancement and community-based Resilience (SHELTER) is an EU-funded project that aims at developing a data-driven and community-based resilience improvement of historic areas.
The STEP project´s key aim was to advise consumers on energy savings and implement energy efficiency solutions based on the country. The project also organised specific online and on-site training for frontline workers who were responsible to directly raise awareness in households.