Buildings
More than 190 candidates for the Green Solutions Awards 2020-21: discover them and vote!
Professionals can now discover the projects in competition for the Green Solutions Awards 2020-21. The competing buildings (...)
Lacaton and Vassal: how this year's Pritzker prize could spark an architectural revolution
The Frac Nord Pas de Calais art centre, designed by Lacaton and Vassal in 2013. Ville de Dunkerque, Wikimedia Commons, CC (...)
Newness Touches Conventional History: The Research of the Photovoltaic Technology on a Wooden Church Heritage Building
The Research of the Photovoltaic Technology on a Wooden Church Heritage Building The case study that determined the present (...)
Buildings Renovation in Germany: success story or potential failure?
The German Federal Association of Housing and Real Estate Companies (GdW) has claimed that money and effort spent on the (...)
Design makes a place a prison or a home. Turning 'human-centred' vision for aged care into reality
Article by Jan Golembiewski, University of Technology Sydney The Royal Commission into Aged Care left organisations that (...)
[Webinar] The TABEDE Solution for Demand Response: final results and lessons learned
FINAL WEBINAR: The TABEDE Solution for Demand Response: final results and lessons learned Fri, Apr 23, 2021 11:00 AM - 1 (...)
[MOOC] Sustainable Construction in the Tropical Humid Zone (1st Edition)
The tropical zone is home to about half of the world's population. Much of this zone enjoys a relatively mild humid climate (...)
Opengela as a reference for urban regeneration in the Basque Country
Opengela started in May 2019 to produce a model of replicable local offices which serve neighbourhoods during their urban (...)
New research emerging from the EU project Sinfonia looks at the importance of considering context when designing behaviour-change interventions in line with retrofitting objectives
Photo by Jason Strull on Unsplash Preliminary evidence on the effects of a behaviourally informed intervention integrated (...)
LowUP project develops and demonstrates three energy-efficient solutions
The LowUP (LOW valued energy sources UPgrading for buildings and industry uses) project received funding from the European (...)
4RinEU Deep Renovation Game
4RinEU launches an online game to teach young students the benefits of deep energy renovation This educational game has been (...)
Zetland Passive House
The Zetland Passive House project is the UK's first certified EnerPHit Plus retrofit. Originally built in 1894, this Passivha (...)
Owl Woods Passive House
3 bedroom plus study single-family home. Timber construction throughout. Inland regional location with cool winters and warm (...)
Why the End is Just the Beginning, When Retrofitting Homes
Photo by Bureau Door by Mark Douglas Wessel Whether it’s a goal of putting someone on the moon for the first time, coming (...)
Gecina targets net zero carbon for its operational portfolio by 2030
With CAN0P-2030 (Carbon Net Zero Plan), Paris-based REIT/SIIC Gecina is accelerating its low-carbon roadmap and targeting (...)