Allplan facilitates the design of highly efficient and sustainable buildings through Building Information Modeling (BIM). Solutions for life cycle assessment, energy consumption analysis, and structural optimisation ensure that the highest sustainability requirements are achievable throughout the planning process.
AI is transforming sustainable building practices by optimising energy efficiency in both design and operations, offering cost-effective solutions for reducing carbon emissions.
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.
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.
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.
In 2024, regulatory changes, sustainability goals, and AI advancements reshaped facility management, emphasising compliance, energy efficiency, and digital integration, while challenges in Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption and collaboration remained.
The 5th annual plenary meeting of the High Level Construction Forum is just around the corner. The event will take place in person in Brussels at the Breydel building of the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW).
Operational effectiveness ensures building systems achieve their goals by adapting to real-time conditions, prioritising outcomes over efficiency alone.
What if technology allowed buildings to manage themselves, guaranteeing greater energy efficiency, enhanced comfort, and improved health while quickly paying for themselves through savings on bills? This is already happening—smart buildings are a reality, with various projects demonstrating their advantages.
The document highlights the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings through retrofitting, addressing challenges such as high costs, data gaps, and technical issues, while exploring opportunities in innovation and policy to meet net-zero targets by 2050.