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Maria Stambler
04/05/21 14:21

Take part in the e-SAFE survey!

e-SAFE is a recently launched four-year project funded under the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Union and aiming at developing and demonstrating (..)

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Janne Rieke Boll
17/03/21 09:07

[New Report] Long-term renovation strategies as key instruments to guide local renovation - Lessons learned from good practices across Europe

Successful implementation of the Renovation Wave is highly dependent on the local level, in particular, the access to funding and the application of innovative (..)

Long-term renovation strategies Municipal renovation Romania Bulgaria

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Roberta D'Angiolella
17/11/20 12:30

Understanding the value of data: new X-tendo report outlines user needs and technical specifications of innovative EPC features

The EPBD and its revisions in 2010 and 2018 strengthened the provisions related to Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) by setting out that the Member (..)

Buildings

energy performance

renovation

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Margaux Barrett
05/11/20 12:00

The H2020 project Turnkey Retrofit launched its one-stop-shop for energy retrofitting of buildings in France, Ireland and Spain

Designed to ease the renovation journey for homeowners, the one-stop-shop also aims to boost renovations in France, Spain and Ireland. Solutions4Renovation (..)

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Roberta D'Angiolella
23/10/20 15:10

The X-tendo survey

The X-tendo survey shows that building logbooks, financing options and comfort are the most relevant features for new energy performance certificates, (..)

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Roberta D'Angiolella
23/10/20 15:06

The European Renovation Wave: From Words to Action

The building sector, as it stands today, is a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union. It remains highly dependent on (..)

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Petra Colantonio
22/10/20 14:57

Official PLURAL project kick-off

The kick-off meeting of the PLURAL project “Plug-and-use renovation with adaptable lightweight systems”, was held remotely on 12th and 13th of October (..)

Building

industrialisation

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Margaux Barrett
02/10/20 10:39

Active Building Energy Performance Contracts: an overview of policies and measures in place in Belgium, Spain, Italy and Portugal

AmBIENCe – Actively Managed Buildings with Energy Performance Contracting- is an H2020 project that aims to extend the concept of energy performance contracting (..)

Energy Performance Contracting

buildings

policies

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Angelique Lusuan
30/07/20 11:56

Co-creating in Austria and Catalonia

The EU project HOUSEFUL has completed its first set of workshops with housing sector experts from Austria and the Barcelona area. The goal?To identify (..)

circular building

housing sector

high resource consumption

environmental impact

energy

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Interreg 2 Seas SHIFFT Project
16/07/20 09:54

SHIFFT: Sustainable Heating: Implementation of Fossil-Free Technology

The declaration of a climate emergency means we must all look at how we can make big changes within our own communities. The current COP25 meeting in Madrid (..)

heating, hot water

SHIFFT

sustainableheating

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cécile dekeuwer
16/06/20 17:03

Water is the blue gold and the public institutions support innovations in this sector.

WeCo was awarded by the European Commission with the Seal of Excellence and by the French Government with a grant of more than 800K euros for the Investment (..)

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Elsa Alves
16/06/20 14:16

Experience and lessons learned from P4P pilots for energy efficiency: new report from H2020 SENSEI

Energy-efficient buildings have the potential to play a key role in EU energy transition. In the United States, several energy utilities have recently (..)

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Angelique Lusuan
16/06/20 10:34

Retrofit Social Housing – Better Homes Improve Lives

Our homes are essential for a successful society. They provide shelter and a safe space from which all of us, individually and collectively, can take part (..)

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Angelique Lusuan
09/06/20 11:51

Measuring circularity

A webinar organised by HOUSEFUL partner Housing Europe shed light on the many different available approaches to assess the circularity level of buildings (..)

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Erick Rigaudie
09/06/20 10:21

Activ Home Solar Impulse labbeled solution

ACTIV HOME provides a large-scale manufacturing solution producing bio-sourced construction elements displaying high thermal, hydric and acoustic performances (..)

solar

bio-sourced

construction

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Roberta D'Angiolella
12/05/20 10:54

The residential building renovation market in Germany, Italy, Lithuania and Spain: new analysis by the H2020 project RenOnBill

The new report published by the H2020 project RenOnBill provides a detailed analysis of the main data, drivers and challenges involved in the energy renovation (..)

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Mohaddeseh Maktabifard
05/05/20 09:00

"Integration of Renewable Energy Technologies in district Heating and Cooling solutions for sustainable living" Workshop - Sustainable Places 2020

During the 14th century, Chaudes-Aigues village located in the region of Auvergne in central France installed the first high-functioning district heating (..)

district heating and cooling

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renewable energy

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Angelique Lusuan
23/04/20 11:33

Need a hand with finding the right green solutions for your city?

The European project URBAN GreenUP has released a digital tool to help cities identify the best Nature-Based Solutions to tackle environmental problems (..)

Natural-based Solutions

climate change

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Caroline Milne
31/03/20 11:30

[Call for experts!] Survey: Help identify barriers to implementation of "efficiency first" principle

The enefirst project consortium is looking to identify barriers (ex: technical, regulatory or capacity-related) to implementation of the “efficiency first” (..)

EU policy

decarbonisation

European energy system

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Caroline Milne
31/03/20 10:55

Enefirst - Making Efficiency First operational: New project aims to support policy makers put the European guideline into practice in view of the EU Green Deal

The Enefirst consortium has launched its first publication, which defines the principle of Efficiency First (E1st) in a way to make it operational. The (..)