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What measures should Europe take to scale up the uptake of renewable energy? Wolfram Sparber, the Vice President of The Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centers (EUREC), discusses the steps that should be made.

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?

ProGETonE project, an H2020 funded project about deep energy renovation of residential buildings with seismic strengthening approaches, presents GET.onE.app, a new User Interface application for complex BIM projects developed within the project.

ProGETonE project is organizing a cluster event in the framework of the European Sustainable Energy Week. This Energy Day event will promote exchanges and synergies between ProGETonE and eSAFE projects.

 Do you know what energy communities are? Do you know that you can generate renewable energy in your building, and share it amongst your neighbours? Check what the ProGETone project have to say.

 Which are the usual obstacles that need to be tackled to facilitate the broad deployment of deep renovation in the building sector? How can we improve social engagement within deep energy renovation or circular renovation projects?  

ProGETone project presents the recording of their last webinar "Pioneers' role of public sector in holistic deep renovation", in which 3 different experts participated: Marco Corradi, President of Reggio Emilia Public Housing Agency; Tomáš Perutka, Senior Project Developer manager at the Energy Agency of Zlín Region and Andoni Hidalgo Simón, Project manager at Opengela Basque Country project.

ProGETonE project is promoting a webinars’ cycle to discuss about some trending topics around buildings, energy efficiency and seismic strengthening. This is a short summary of the five webinars that have been published so far.

Dexma Day 2022 event is back! This year, the English online session will take place in the autumn, on the 18th of October.  

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.