Resilience
UK climate tech start-up wins third award for clean energy solution in construction sector
British climate tech start-up IPG Energy has made it into BuiltWorlds Building Tech Top 50 list, further establishing itself (...)
Evening reception of World Resilience Summit 2023 in Geneva on 24 May
We are happy to share the news that registration for the evening reception of World Resilience Summit 2023 on 24 May (...)
The struggle for Europe’s green construction norms
Negotiations on the EU’s revised construction product regulation are drawing to a close after months of fighting behind the (...)
New project on adaptive housing design to face climate change
How will low-energy homes perform under the context of future climate scenarios? What are the risks for occupants? and what (...)
Level(s) and the New European Bauhaus: support EU efforts to build a sustainable future
A new European Commission publication shows how buildings professionals can contribute to the New European Bauhaus movement (...)
Recapturing excess heat could power most of Europe, say experts
Preventing heat waste largely being ignored as solution to energy crisis, say environmental campaigners. Excess heat produced (...)
Solar developers may benefit from a new stormwater calculator
Stormwater management practices, permitting, and regulations at solar sites often do not account for the unique characteristi (...)
Building a roadmap to decarbonise Ireland
The construction and built environment sector accounts for 37% of Ireland´s carbon emissions.The roadmap assesses the impact (...)
ICSD 2023 : 11th International Conference on Sustainable Development, 6 - 7 September Rome, Italy
European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with Canadian Institute of Technology will organize the 11th (...)
The importance of reducing on-site pollutant emissions in construction
Air pollution has been identified as the single largest environmental health risk in Europe. Exposure to even low levels (...)
Re:Crete Footbridge
In French This project won a "Technical Challenge" mention for the category "Outside the framework" of the Trophées Bâtiments (...)
Glasgow pilot site: 5th generation heating and cooling grid in practice!
Glasgow's 5GDHC grid aims to create an ambient loop on the Magenta Business Park site and decentralise energy demand for (...)
[Magic wand] Construction21's eleven wishes for 2023
What would you do in 2023 with a magic wand? We have chosen eleven wishes. It's up to you to formulate the following. And (...)
Extreme weather power outages must become a thing of the past
The effects of the extreme heatwaves and wildfires hitting continental Europe, the UK, China and parts of the US this year (...)
The 17th Global Forum on Human Settlements successfully concluded
(December 16, 2022) As one of the most important conferences worldwide focusing on sustainable cities and human settlements (...)