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Policy brief – Circular buildings: Paving the way to a net-zero industry

Why do we need the circular economy for a deep decarbonisation of the industry? What are the legislative actions needed at (...)

Energy poverty in rural areas: help address this problem by filling in the RENOVERTY survey!

The RENOVERTY (“Home Renovation Roadmaps to Address Energy Poverty in Vulnerable Rural Districts”) project is collecting (...)

Technical Article - Consolidating building data semantics for life cycle assessment

The SemanticLCA project outlines in this article how various technologies, such as BIM models or DT systems, can feed into (...)

BUILDING CONVERSATIONS UP with Kieran Morgan

BUILD UP brings you our May written interview, as part of our BUILDING CONVERSATIONS UP. This month, we interview Kieran (...)

Fjord View - energy efficient social housing

This project won a mention for the Health & Comfort Prize at the national and international levels of the Green Solutions (...)

ISO published its Net Zero Guidelines

ISO has just published on the occasion of the COP 27 a document on net zero carbon emissions. This text is ambitious because (...)

The hidden treasures of renovation : Results of the HQE Performance LCA renovation test

A Renovation Wave, which will accelerate the decarbonisation of buildings, is an initiative highlighted in the European Green (...)

Life Cycle Assessment and straw construction

Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, is an environmental accounting and management approach that considers all the aspects of resou (...)

A social tool for evaluating the environmental impact of residential buildings

For the first time, an open-source computing tool can, simply and intuitively, calculate the CO2 emissions in each phase (...)

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[avniR] conference: call for contribution is extended until June 29th 2018

[avniR] platform is pleased to invite you to participate in the call for contributions for the 8th international [avniR] (...)

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[avniR] conference: call for contribution is open until June 15th 2018

[avniR] platform is pleased to invite you to participate in the call for contributions for the 8th international [avniR] (...)

Introducing Level(s): a common language for sustainable buildings

To improve sustainability and drive market demand for better buildings, a new open source assessment framework, Level(s) (...)

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Innovative study on the life cycle analysis of construction materials

The OERCO2 project aims at creating an Open Educational Resource (OERCO2) that unifies the calculations of CO2 emissions (...)

New web platform opens to cover Europe's hemp building industry

HempToday, a new platform covering Europe's hemp building industry has gone into soft launch. "We see a growing need to build (...)