Publications

Greening Buildings with digitalisation is one of the 10 key areas of the EU Strategic Foresight Report 2022, which aims to twin the green and digital transition. There are some key changes that the building sector must face, focused on the ones from demographic trends and urbanisation.

The building sector is the key to achieve emissions reduction through renovation. To this end, solutions are needed to speed the current renovation rates. Industrial prefabrication for renovation comes as a promising solution to achieve this goal and create significant energy and cost savings.

Successful decarbonisation of the EU building stock calls for an integrated, participatory and neighbourhood-based approach. Could the concept of Positive Energy Neighbourhood (PEN) be the answer?

The newly developed EU Buildings Climate Tracker finds that the EU is facing a growing gap in advancing towards climate neutrality in the sector. This first edition provides evidence for the urgent need for additional action that should be reflected in a transformational outcome of legislative discussions on the EPBD.

This study examines the scale of the challenge to stop using gas as source of domestic heat at a national level and how, as an example, an urban area such as East Birmingham might address that challenge.

This report from Eurostat shows some statistics from the EU countries about increasing temperatures which have led to a minor need to heat our buildings, but a major need to cool them.