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Vademecum di ENEA su come diminuire i consumi del riscaldamento
L´ENEA propone un vademecum redatto apposta per i cittadini con lo scopo di fornire soluzioni e suggerimenti pratici per ridurre ed ottimizzare i consumi energetici derivati dal riscaldamento domestico. Tali comportamenti risultano fondamentali a causa delle misure di risparmio previste dal decreto.
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Hybrid Energy Systems for Integrated Smart Buildings and Cities
A two-day symposium on "Hybrid Energy Systems for Integrated Smart Buildings and Cities" will be co-hosted in Brest by CESI (LINEACT), UBO (IRDL), and ISEN (L@bISEN). The symposium’s objective is to facilitate a high-quality scientific discussion between academia and industry and to create awareness among the students on the importance of sustainable building development. The symposium will cover topics on sustainable buildings, smart grids, and smart cities. These are some of the most important and challenging areas for developing a sustainable environment since buildings are responsible for a high share of global primary energy consumption and CO2 emission.
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REHVA Brussels Summit 2022
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.
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StreamSAVE Project: Streamlining Energy Savings Calculations
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.
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Case Study – Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Energy Management in Historical Buildings
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.
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MicroRenew project: Dealing with Waste in a Sustainable Way
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. 
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GEOFIT last General Assembly
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.
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GIFT project: Helping European Islands to Decarbonise their Energy Mix
GIFT is an innovative project that aims to decarbonise the energy mix of European islands. European islands have to abide by the law of their countries that push toward a greener energy mix to comply with the European and international agreements. GIFT is willing to develop innovative systems to allow islands to integrate vast amount of renewables.
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G20 is renovating buildings too slowly to meet climate targets
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.
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