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A “Fit for 55 Package” under the EU Green Deal: an opportunity for DHC

As announced in its work programme for 2021, published at the end of last year, the European Commission has started working on the so called “Fit for (..)

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Institute for Renewable Energy Eurac Research
11/06/21 10:27

Deep renovation of residential buildings made easy

Online workshop | 25th of June from 9:00 to 11:00 4RinEu will contribute to this year’s WSED European Energy Efficiency Conference with an online workshop (..)

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deep renovation

decision-making

residential buildings

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Carole de Fays
10/06/21 17:34

Design & Build public procurement procedure

The Design & Build procedure is reassuring for the Project Owner because it provides an impression of safety regarding the schedule and the budget. In (..)

materials and solutions

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Karine Laffont-Eloire
10/06/21 16:45

Smart Building: Meet EU innovators # episode2 of SmartBuilt4EU webinars

Save the date | Only one week for the webinar on "Smart buildings: meet EU innovators"! 17th June 12:00-13:30 Learn about 9 EU funded projects that are (..)

smartreadiness

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Build Up
10/06/21 10:22

[Webinar] Renovations in the CEE region - How can we ensure that European funding is fully used to increase its speed and depth?

15 June 2021 – 14:00 – 16: 00 CET Register For this edition, we would like to focus on the unprecedented levels of funding opportunities at EU level that (..)

buildings

renovation

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Build Up
10/06/21 10:20

Big data and building in the EU: MATRYCS Stakeholder Workshop #1

The building sector accounts for a significant percentage of total global energy-related CO2 emissions. Competitive solutions must therefore be found in (..)

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buildings

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Celsius Initiative
10/06/21 10:18

How to utilize district heating for cooling in a smart way

Fig. 1: The newly built office building at Berlin-Postbahnhof serves as a demonstration site for a cooling concept, which has been developed for the Flexi (..)

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The Conversation Global Perspectives
10/06/21 10:15

Cooling buildings by nearly 5ºC possible thanks to new whiter-than-white paint

Painting buildings white is a centuries-old method of staving off heat in countries like Greece. SophiaPapageorge/Pixabay, CC BY An article by Andrew Parnell (..)

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Celsius Initiative
10/06/21 10:15

What do green and digital have in common? – Waste heat!

These two words have been coupled a lot to talk about the transition to sustainable societies with the EU Green Deal or in the context of the recovery (..)

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Build Up
10/06/21 10:12

X-tendo introductory reports: Building Logbook

Credits: X-tendo project Building logbooks are repositories for detailed building information. They act as a single point of input, access and visualisation (..)

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FEDARENE - Energy Agencies
10/06/21 10:10

Discover Green Hysland

GREEN HYSLAND is a 5-year project financed by the H2020 programme and the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking which started in 2021. It aims to deploy (..)

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Angelique Lusuan
10/06/21 09:50

Why reducing drivetrain size can make electric cars even greener

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) already go some way to reducing air pollution in Europe. The latest developments in electric drivetrain technology, however (..)

David Jolley

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Angelique Lusuan
10/06/21 09:39

Passports to defend the rights of the building materials

The construction industry is a major source of pollution and building materials should not be wasted but recycled. Architect Thomas Rau even proposed a (..)

Selene Verri

buildings

construction

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Angelique Lusuan
10/06/21 09:35

Peer-to-peer platforms – Shaping a democratic energy model to boost renewables

Prosumers are people who both produce and consume renewable energy. New peer-to-peer platforms allow them to share, sell or donate their power surplus (..)

renewables

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Romain BARTOLI
10/06/21 09:30

[Webinar] How can I centralise the data of my product suppliers?

Have you ever searched for a BIM object without knowing where you and your colleagues could have put it? With Onfly, no more wasted hours searching (..)

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Margaux Barrett
10/06/21 09:10

[Webinar] US-EU Exchange: Advancing a climate-neutral recovery

Kicking off a new series of high-level exchange between the US and the EU on climate and buildings, this session will give an overview of the EU and US (..)

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Evelyn Long
10/06/21 09:00

The Impact of Construction Automation on Sustainability

The pandemic caused increasing eco-consumerism. A housebound lifestyle exposed various individuals to their waste generation habits, sparking a need for (..)

automation

machinery

robotics

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Institute for Renewable Energy Eurac Research
07/06/21 09:00

Promoting investments in energy efficiency for buildings through the EEnvest´s framework

9th June 2021 – online – free registration The perception of risk surrounding building renovation operations is an important driver in most of the energy (..)

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Margaux Barrett
03/06/21 16:01

[Webinar] Financing and business models that deliver, June 15th

The fourth webinar of the Canada-EU exchange, hosted on June 15th, 2021, will focus on business and finance models that enable smart use of public and (..)

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Climate Chance
03/06/21 15:10

Week for Sustainable Mobility and Climate

The Week for Sustainable Mobility and Climate #SMDC2021, at Dakar, the event co-organised by 3 partners committed to sustainable mobility in developing (..)