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G20 energy efficiency finance and investment 2019 stocktake report

Building on the outcomes of the G20 Global Summit on Financing Energy Efficiency, Innovation and Clean Technology which was held in Tokyo on June 12 2019, the G20 Energy Efficiency Finance Task Group (...)

European cities commit to net zero buildings

In this days of climate negotiations, leading European cities and companies have pledged to reduce carbon emissions from their buildings to net zero.   Helsinki (Finland) and Valladolid (Spain) have signed (...)

Buildings at the centre of the Green Deal

On 11th December Ursula von Der Leyen, recently elected president of the European Commission, presented the new European Climate plan called "Green Deal". Emblematically, this is one of the first acts (...)

3rd Annual Digital Construction Summit - Berlin 2020

Venue: Hotel Riu Plaza Berlin   Join us and global executives as we return for our 3rd Annual Digital Construction Summit in Berlin, Germany on February 27th and 28th. This edition will focus on modern (...)

Webinar | Digitalisation of the Building and Construction sector

This webinar will take place Thursday, 16 January 2020, at 11:00 CET. ABOUT THE PROJECT  BIMcert is a European wide project, funded by The European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (...)

EU energy in figures

The energy sector is one of the pillars of growth, competitiveness and development for modern economies. To keep up with the ongoing transformation of the energy sector in Europe, we need data that is (...)

Assessment of second long-term renovation strategies under the Energy Efficiency Directive

The Energy Efficiency Directive (Directive 2012/27/EU, EED), adopted in 2012, in its Article 4, requires EU Member States (MS) to establish a long-term strategy for mobilising investment in the renovation (...)

Becoming a smart city: experiences from “lighthouse” cities

Sinfonia Webinar series “Smart City talks”   Our “Smart City talks” is a series of 6 webinars that will share the experiences of Sinfonia pilot cities, exploring best practices and tools for urban energy (...)

Housing renovation plan will be ‘flagship’ of European Green Deal

A housing renovation programme, aimed at reducing energy consumption of buildings, will be “one of the flagships” of the upcoming European Green Deal that will be unveiled by the European Commission (...)

OVERVIEW | Socioeconomic and technical approaches to building stock renovation

Renovating the EU building stock Deep renovation of buildings has the potential to cut 36% of their energy consumption by 2030, while reducing the EU’s dependency on imported energy, creating growth (...)

World Energy Outlook 2019 highlights deep disparities in the global energy system

Deep disparities define today’s energy world. The dissonance between well-supplied oil markets and growing geopolitical tensions and uncertainties. The gap between the ever-higher amounts of greenhouse (...)

OVERVIEW | Tools for photovoltaics in buildings

Today’s energy market is rapidly transforming with the diffusion of new decentralized energy actors. In this scenario, buildings play a relevant role for the energy transition that European countries (...)

OVERVIEW | An introduction to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology that has been developed to evaluate the environmental impact of buildings, with respect to their processes, their materials and use (energy) throughout the (...)

Building energy epidemiology as a tool to support European building energy performance improvement

Ian Hamilton is an Associate Professor at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London, UK. Ian’s research is focused on the nexus between energy supply-demand in buildings, indoor and urban environment (...)

Webinar: Are we ready for BIM in construction sites?

The digitalisation of the design and construction process of the European built environment is remodelling the way of work inside the whole value chain. The adaptation to this new work environment is (...)

Making Green Building Financing Mainstream

Join the webinar on 26. November 2019   Buildings and construction account for 40% of the world’s GHG emissions. Green buildings represent one of the most significant investment opportunities that contributes (...)

Summary and presentations of the German CoNZEBs Event available

On 13 June 2019 the national German CoNZEBs event was held in Saalbau Gutleut in Frankfurt. More than 110 practitioners and decision makers attended the event organised as a mix of presentations of nearly (...)

CoNZEBs report: Life-cycle assessment of multi-family houses with different energy performance levels

The team of the EU Horizon 2020 project CoNZEBs has completed a follow-up activity to the identification of potential technical solution sets that could reduce investment costs for NZEBs. The scientific (...)

Nigeria Build Expo

We are delighted to announce NIGERIA BUILD EXPO is the only place to be if you are in construction sector. With key dedicated product groups you can be part of, there is no better time to secure your (...)

14th Conference on Advanced Building Skins: International platform for architects, engineers, scientists and the building industry

Architects, engineers and representatives of the worldwide building industry will meet at the International Conference on Advanced Building Skins in Bern to discuss the latest trends and new developments (...)

Transforming a residential building cluster into electricity prosumers in Sweden: Optimal design of a coupled PV-heat pump-thermal storage-electric vehicle system

Smart grid is triggering the transformation of traditional electricity consumers into electricity prosumers. This paper reports a case study of transforming an existing residential cluster in Sweden (...)

The European Commission at Ecomondo 2019: EU Programmes for your circular ideas.

Once again the European Commission will take part in Ecomondo, the annual trade fair for the green and circular economy. The expo will take place in Rimini, Italy from 5 to 8 November 2019. It will bring (...)

Climate Emergency: Mainstreaming Passivhaus by 2030 #UKPHC19

Join the UK Passivhaus Conference in Manchester this October to discover how to successfully industrialise the Standard and deliver Passivhaus for the mass market. View the programme  The wider industry (...)

BIM4EEB | BIM based fast toolkit for Efficient rEnovation in Buildings: the definition of requirements for an efficient renovation process with digital ICT tools

The digital transformation of the AEC sector is facing several criticalities which have to be solved in order to effectively exploit its different potentialities. For instance, the lack of a proper information (...)

Bringing embodied carbon upfront

The World Green Building Council’s pioneering report demands radical cross-sector coordination to revolutionise the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, and tackle embodied carbon (...)

Integrating Green and Grey: Creating next generation infrastructure

A new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, including water security and climate resilience, according to a new report from the World (...)

C40 World Mayors Summit - Copenhagen

The C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen will build a global coalition of leading cities, businesses and citizens that rallies around the radical and ambitious climate action our planet needs. AGENDA (...)

The Net Zero Carbon Buildings Declaration

Our buildings help define our cities – from our iconic skylines to our historic architecture. They are where our citizens, live, work, study and play. These buildings are also one of the biggest sources (...)

Five things you need to know about: decarbonising Europe

Countries across Europe have, in the past few years, announced their intention to become carbon neutral in the coming decades. Some, like Norway, have targets for 2030, while others, like the UK and (...)

Putting Regions on Track for Carbon Neutrality by 2050

This report is the result of the roundtables that were conducted in the 11 partner countries of the C-Track 50 project on multi-level governance and challenges faced by long term policy and energy planning (...)

FACADES19 Conference /South challenges and beyond - Call for abstracts

Annual EFN conferences goal is to bring together, a multi-disciplinary group of scientists and facade designers, specialists, consultants, manufacturers, builders etc. and young researchers, from Europe (...)

18 Latin American cities unite to upscale green building action

Representatives from 18 Latin American cities met to discuss strategies to accelerate city scale action on green buildings from energy efficiency to net zero carbon buildings. On Wednesday 28 August (...)

MED . Mediterranean Energy Debate

On 10th October 2019 in Brussels, the Efficient Buildings Community is organizing MED - Mediterranean Energy Debate a public event to present the solutions developed by the Community to the wide audience (...)

World Green Building Week

This World Green Building Week, we’re #BuildingLife and exploring how we can create a green, healthy and climate resilient built environment for all. This year’s campaign aims to raise greater awareness (...)

UN Climate Action Summit 2019

Climate change is the defining issue of our time and now is the defining moment to do something about it. There is still time to tackle climate change, but it will require an unprecedented effort from (...)

Life Cycle Assessments – A guide on using the LCA

The present guidelines, which the DGNB has developed together with its members, convey a basic understanding of the great benefits that is offered by the use of life cycle assessments in the planning (...)

4th STUNNING Webinar - Project conclusion / Promoting energy-efficient building renovation

The annual rate of home and commercial building renovation is well under the 3% required to achieve European climate and energy goals.  There is a need to accelerate investments in energy efficiency and (...)

Bio-based Buildings B3 international conference

The first international conference on bio-based buildings dedicated to the public sector The B3 Conference aims to launch an unprecedented momentum of bio-based building across local and regional authorities (...)

One-stop-shops for deep energetic refurbishment of private buildings

One-stop-shops (OSS) are easily accessible tools for overcoming market fragmentation on both demand and supply side. They can offer holistic renovation solutions for building owners, covering evaluation (...)

In a moment of urgency, put energy efficiency first

  As the world increasingly benefits from the price revolution in renewable energy and the world’s largest investors come to grips with the phase-down of fossil fuels, it has become clearer that we have (...)

EUSEW Energy Day - Session 1: Bringing solutions together

Five Eu funded projects (TripleA­reno, iBROAD, HAPPEN, ALDREN, Fit­to­NZEB) collaborating on integrated tools and methods for deep retrofitting, looked at key challenges that need to be surpassed for (...)

Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis Through Digital Innovation and Technology

Undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges facing Canadians today is affordable housing. To address this issue cities will require commitment, investment, and perhaps most of all, innovation. The design (...)

BIM Middle East 2019 Conference & Expo Open BIM: The Key To Industry 4.0

Developments and advancements in computer software have grown exponentially over the last few decades in the construction sector, perhaps none more so than Building Information Modelling (BIM). Why (...)

Solution Sets and Technologies for NZEBs

The CoNZEBs team has identified potential technical solution sets that can reduce cost in the construction process for NZEBs.   The scientific partners assessed the costs related to the construction (...)

Conference on Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2019 – DEADLINE EXTENDED!

SSPCR 2019 aims to answer the question on how can we maximize the impact of academic research, the scaling-up and replicability opportunities of pilot projects, and the added value of local bottom-up (...)

Solutions for energy efficiency. 10 years of European Local Energy Assistance (ELENA)

The European Local Energy Assistance (ELENA) is a successful joint initiative between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission (Smart Finance for Smart Buildings). It offers technical (...)

Singapore's Net Zero Energy Building: A roadmap for the future?

National University of Singapore’s (NUS) School of Design and Environment (SDE) building, the SDE4, certainly stands out for its unique structure. SDE4 is NUS's foremost net-zero building, and the first (...)

Manual of mechanisms and business models for energy efficiency

This manual was conducted by BASE (Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy), as part of the project “Pilot Asia-Pacific Climate Technology Network and Finance Centre” (CTNFC). CTNFC is an initiative of UN (...)

3rd Experts meeting of IEA EBC Annex 79 “Occupant-Centric Building Design and Operation”

As of June 2019, Annex 79 has been approved for a three-year working phase! The first meeting of this phase will take place in Perugia Italy on Sept. 9-10, 2019 As building envelopes and mechanical (...)

Final Conference of EPATEE What can we learn from existing evaluation practices?

EPATEE (Evaluation Into Practice to Achieve Targets for Energy Efficiency) is an EU funded project which aims at giving EU Member States tools and knowledge for a better evaluation of their own energy (...)