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With buildings accounting for more than 40% of energy consumption in Europe, renewable technologies and related measures provide an opportunity to reduce fossil fuel use. The EU-funded RES4BUILD project hosted a workshop in Brussels on 29 March 2023 with participants from research, industry, policy, and end users to discuss the developments required to accelerate this change.  

The crucial role of education in achieving sustainable development was already stressed at the UN Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and twenty years later at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, ‘Rio+20’ in 2012.

We are pleased to announce our upcoming webinar where our experts discuss consumption and savings in the industrial sector to help you identify areas of improvement and opportunities, using real-life examples. Hosted by our team of energy experts, the webinar will take place on Wednesday the 4th of May at 11am.

Urbanization and advanced technologies have made cities grow denser, with massive greenhouse gas emissions per year,  a significant contributor to the harsh effects of climate change.

A new European Commission publication shows how buildings professionals can contribute to the New European Bauhaus movement for sustainable living, inclusiveness and aesthetics with help from Level(s) ─ the EU framework for sustainable buildings.

La sede corporativa de la empresa NTT DATA en Barcelona ha sido reconocida con la certificación LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), lo que la acredita como la oficina más sostenible de Europa y la segunda de todo el mundo debido a su diseño.

The morning session, “Supplying circularity for social and affordable housing”, investigated the market-readiness of circular solutions by assessing if there is a fit between products (circular construction/renovation solutions) and market (social housing companies).

The past three years have been marked by unprecedented shocks and stresses for the European community. Both the devastating pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have put our homes in the spotlight: the importance of energy efficient homes to protect vulnerable groups from energy price shocks and to provide healthy as well as comfortable living environments has never been more evident. 

Europe has taken several steps to support the transition of its building stock towards energy-efficiency, sustainability, and low-carbon through the following:

Partners Angelos Mylonas, Jordi Macia and Jordi Pascual  from IREC - Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya have written a press release about the PLURAL project's latest development in smart energy management and fault detection tools. 
 

POWERSKIN+ Project is excited to share the process of assembly of the opaque modules for the Powerskin+ demo site.

The European Commission has launched a new initiative for a new set of EU taxonomy criteria for economic activities contributing to:

THe PLURAL M30 General Assembly meeting was hel in Barcelona, Spain.

The meeting was kicked off by the host ITeC - Institut de Tecnologia de la Construcció de Catalunya and Project Adviser Susana Xará. The first day of the meeting was packed with informative presentations and productive discussions among the partners.

POWERSKIN+ Project partners at Instituto Pedro Nunes and Brunel University London have recently published a research article "Formulation and phase change mechanism of Capric acid/Octadecanol binary composite phase change materials" in the Energy Journal.

The Community Energy Academy shares knowledge about energy citizenship and energy communities, citizen engagement, energy systems, and practical action planning tools to implement people-centred initiatives. In this context, the academy has launched a training programme on energy communities. The course is designed for public administrators, leaders and members of energy communities, researchers, and other sustainability experts.

The revised Energy Performance of the Building Directive (EPBD) introduces Zero Emission Buildings as scale of the future buildings 2050. In order to achieve this goal, the needs of the entire value chain in the construction industry has to be taken into account and building experts have to be armed with new knowledge, skills and competences.

Air-source heat pumps can help to halve the carbon emissions compared to gas-fired heating systems. Nevertheless, the uptake of air-source heat pumps in the UK is the lowest in Europe. Why?

Decarbonisation of district heating has an important role in all three energy directives: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), EU Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) and