Follow-up monitoring of environmental aspects of the Smart Living Lab building, both during the tender phase and in preparation for the construction phase.
The EU Buildings Climate Tracker is a benchmark and assessment tool checking on the status of the EU building stock and its progress towards climate neutrality by 2050. The paper gives more details regarding the methodology and results.
Follow-up monitoring of environmental aspects of the Smart Living Lab building, both during the tender phase and in preparation for the construction phase.
The goal of this online workshop is to discuss the preliminary results of the Cities4PED with practitioners developing Positive Energy Districts to refine and validate the project’s results. The session will present city instruments as well as neighbourhood dynamics. Analysis framework, methods, tactics, tools & practices to achieve co-ownership and inclusive PED-development will be debated, based on different PED case studies.
Actions to limit global warming have been implemented in the past years, but as reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) is nothing new for the green building sector, bringing them down to zero presents new challenges. How to reach zero carbon buildings?
TECSAS Project stand for Thermionic Energy Conversion & Storage Applied to Sunlight. The project aims taking Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) to the next level.
This webinar will present two projects that are flagship examples of the work towards sustainable housing: Superhomes2030, a one-stop-shop deep retrofit service for domestic homes in Ireland, that aims to dramatically scale this service over 3 years, increasing completed retrofits from 100 houses in 2019 (€6M) to 500 houses in 2023 (€36M); and SunHorizon that aims at deploying sun-coupled innovative heat pump in the residential and tertiary sector, supporting the decarbonisation of the heating and cooling sector.
Zurich´s citizens have voted for Zurich to become net zero by 2040. This includes reducing indirect GHG emissions by 30% per inhabitant by 2040 compared to 1990. Concerning the building sector, the city aims to use sustainable construction materials, reusing existing components and recycling concrete.