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04/04/2023

The BUILD UP Newsletter

APRIL TOPIC OF THE MONTH: Knowledge transfer for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy sources in Buildings (31/03/2023)

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications that cover a specific topic. The topic of the month (ToM) for April is "Knowledge transfer for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy sources in Buildings". We are eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles. Become a contributor now! In this edition of the newsletter, you will find some of the most relevant contents of March’s ToM: "The digitalisation of the building sector".

Overview Article - State of the art of the digitalisation of the building sector (16/03/2023)

Digitalisation represents an opportunity to innovate and decarbonise the whole building value chain. This article provides a quick overview in terms of technology trends, tools and European initiatives.

Technical Article - The BIM-P, a digital data environment to support the building renovation activities (22/03/2023)

The INFINITE project has developed a BIM Platform (BIM-P) which is a digital data environment and asset information management, supporting stakeholders to efficiently collaborate throughout the whole life cycle of buildings. The platform not only stores and shares data, but also enables data exchange with other tools for LCA and LCC evaluations, and other services.

Technical Article - SENSEI’s eensight tool (20/03/2023)

The H2020 SENSEI project has contributed to the advancement of automated measurement and verification (M&V) methods by promoting a major change in the way practitioners approach the task of M&V, as well as by offering Eensight, an open-source tool to experiment with and test the proposed M&V methodology.

Technical Article - The digital era in building energy performance: the Auto-DAN project (30/03/2023)

The installation and exploitation of smart hardware infrastructure along with the use of a data analysis platform is the core of the digital solution developed within the context of the Auto-DAN project, resulting in a self-energy assessment method.

Expert Talk - Valeria Ferrando & Eduard Loscos (20/03/2023)

Check the Expert Talk with Valeria Ferrando, Associate Director - ICL Consultancy at IES Ltd, and Eduard Loscos, R&D Manager at IDP Engineering and President at Building Digital Twin Association, about Digitalisation in the Building Sector.

BUILDING CONVERSATIONS UP – Mirjam Harmelink (30/03/2023)

Manager at the Urban Energy Institute at Technische Universiteit Delft, Mirjam Harmelink talked with us about the main barriers to implement Smart technologies in buildings across the EU, among other topics.

BUILDING CONVERSATIONS UP – Anna Moreno y Veronika Schöpfer (30/03/2023)

How is digital technology shaping the building and construction industry is one of the questions we raised in this double interview, which also digs into the Arise project.

Digital Building Logbooks to support building decarbonisation (22/03/2023)

The new EU-funded Demo-Blog project aims to establish Digital Logbooks as a central tool to monitor and evaluate the progress of climate and energy transition actions at the local level.

Digitalisation in the Flemish construction sector (22/03/2023)

The kick-off event of the EDIH-EBE (European Digital Innovation Hub Energy in the Built Environment) highlighted the importance of implementing digital technologies to accelerate the energy efficiency transition in buildings.

Smart technology can improve building efficiency (30/03/2023)

How digital construction with BIM models and Digital Twins can improve the efficiency of buildings and help with sustainability? An article from Paul McCarthy, CTO at Service Works Global for BIMToday.

Future technologies for smart buildings (30/03/2023)

The Smartbuilt4eu project supports the Smart Building Innovation Community through several EU-funded projects, which are presented in this new brochure.

Modular factory in Erlenbach am Main, Germany (20/03/2023)

ALAS Architects designed the new headquarters of the Hemmelrath Technologies company. The building is part of the MoFa Building Project and consists of a turn-key product for customers who are interested in a sustainable and integral solution.

An inclusive toolbox to accelerate deep renovation (30/03/2023)

The InCUBE project brings together 23 high-profile partners and two affiliated entities from across 7 European countries, envisioning to unlock the EU renovation wave through cutting-edge standardised, lean, integrated processes.

Demo-BLog - Development and Demonstration of Digital Building Logbooks (30/03/2023)

Demo-BLog brings together different DBLs, diverse functionalities addressing key societal challenges, partners, frontrunners in R&D, policymaking and market implementation and substantial opportunities to build and leverage parallel projects and activities focussed on evolving/scaling the participating building logbooks.

Webinar: Data-driven innovations for monitoring the performance of buildings (22/03/2023)

Two new Horizon Europe Projects, DigiBUILD and MODERATE, organised this webinar presenting their data-driven solutions to turn raw data from buildings into meaningful knowledge and their ideas on how to improve the interoperability between datasets.

Webinar: SmartBuilt4EU – The future of smart buildings in Europe (30/03/2023)

This webinar presented the Strategic Research Innovation Agenda (SRIA), the policy recommendations and the final results of the SmartBuilt4EU project, and was hosted by Build Up.

Implementation tools for Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) (17/03/2023)

The European Commission website provides a detailed list of SRI digital calculation tools which have been developed by several EU- funded projects.

DRIVE-0 series of webinars: "Circular talks" (27/04/2023)

The “Circular Talks” series of webinars aims to present and promote the Circular and Consumer Centred Business Model as developed in the framework of DRIVE 0, through the illustration of case studies where specific circular solutions have been applied to implement deep renovation.

C4E Forum 2023 (30/03/2023)

In this edition of this Energy Efficiency Forum, the main topics that will be addressed are energy security, the rebuilding of Ukraine and EU policy (REPowerEU and Fit-for-55 package).

Call for Proposals for Sustainable Places 2023 (30/03/2023)

Sustainable Places has launched its Call for Proposals for its annual conference that will take place in a hybrid format. The proposals can be submitted until the 14th of May.

Call for Papers for CIRMARE 2023 (05/12/2023)

With the theme “Resilience and Adaptation of Buildings and Cities to Climate Change”, CIRMARE aims to contribute to the knowledge and promotion of practices in Rehabilitation that boost the resilience and adaptation of buildings and cities and identify new solutions to meet future needs of contemporary sustainable society.

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02/03/2023

BUILD UP Newsletter

MARCH TOPIC OF THE MONTH: The digitalisation of the building sector (01/03/2023)

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications that cover a specific topic. The topic of the month (ToM) for March is The Digitalisation of the building sector. We are eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles. Become a contributor now! In this edition of the newsletter, you will find some of the most relevant contents of February’s ToM: "Energy efficiency renovation of historic buildings".

HIBERTool: How to find the suitable Historic Building Energy Retrofit solution for your house (01/03/2023)

Experts from the IEA SHC Task 59 and the Interreg project, ATLAS, make available a range of more than 130 energy retrofit solutions for historic buildings – via the best practice collection in the HiBERatlas and the online decision guidance of the HiBERtool.

STRETCH Project: Smart textiles for the retrofitting and monitoring of cultural heritage buildings (01/03/2023)

The STRETCH project aims to develop a hybrid structural-plus-energy retrofit with structural health monitoring tailored for masonry cultural heritage building envelopes. This article describes the concept, scope and methodology of the project.

BUILDING CONVERSATIONS UP - María López Zambrano: "The building that has no use ends up being lost" (01/03/2023)

Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Energy Research Centre (IERC) Tyndall/UCC/MaREI, Dr María López Zambrano delves into de most facing challenges of historic building renovation and gives some clues about interesting solutions to be implemented.

BUILDING CONVERSATIONS UP – Julie Kjestrup: “Energy efficient renovation is about meeting climate targets and lowering energy dependence, but also about delivering on social benefits” (01/03/2023)

President of EuroACE and Vice-Chair of the Renovate Europe Campaign. Head of Policy and Thought Leadership, EU and Global at VELUX, Kjestrup talks about the steps to improve the European building stock and how EU regulations are targeting this specific building typology.

Expert Talks – Alexandra Troi (01/03/2023)

Alexandra Troi, Vice Head of the Institute for Renewable Energy at Eurac Research, speaks about energy efficiency renovation of historic buildings, focusing on the main aspects of historic buildings to consider when starting a renovation project and the innovative materials that are being used in renovation projects on historic buildings, among other topics.

From an historical building to a plus-energy apartment building (01/03/2023)

The 16th-century Renaissance palace in Valladolid, which is part of the EXCESS project´s demo cases in Spain, is going to be transformed into a plus-energy apartment building. The aim is to make the historical building highly energy efficient and at the same time preserve the beautiful existing facades of the building.

Italian ´terra-cotta´ tiles working as solar panels (01/03/2023)

A small family-owned company near Vicenza (Italy) have produced roofing tiles which hide a unique function; they contain solar photovoltaic cells. The tiles are intentionally made to look like traditional terra-cotta and could easily be installed in heritage cities like Vicenza.

Draft measures to foster renovation rate and decrease energy consumption (01/03/2023)

The Industry, Research, and Energy Committee has just adopted its position on the proposed revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). Check out the main objectives of this revision.

BUILD UP, partner of the Green Solutions Awards 2023 (01/03/2023)

BUILD UP becomes a partner of the 9th Edition of the Green Solutions Awards 2022-23. This is a competition for sustainable buildings, districts and infrastructures organised by Construction 21, that aims to showcase exemplary achievements from around the world.

A guide for energy renovation of public historic buildings using a BIM methodology and simulation-based approach (01/03/2023)

The ENI CBC Med BEEP project has developed guidelines for the energy renovation and environmental improvement of public historic buildings through the use of a Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) and a simulation-based approach. These guidelines aim to support public local administrators and professionals of architecture, engineering, and construction to design and implement energy retrofitting of historic buildings.

Progress of buildings´ renovation from Renovate Europe (01/03/2023)

Commissioned by Renovate Europe Campaign to E3G, an independent climate change think tank accelerating the transition to a sustainable world, this study explores the measures undertaken in buildings throughout Member States after the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).

The renovation of the farmhouse Ritterhof, Germany (01/03/2023)

The 17th century farmhouse Ritterhof has been renovated by architect Michael Felkner. He has developed a utilisation (and renovation) concept that could be implemented flexibly, step by step. He has used sustainable and ecological materials from the surroundings and implemented solar energy (thermal, photovoltaic, and passive). Check out the rest of retrofit solutions included.

Demonstration site: Application of BIM-speed tools in Berlin, Lichtenrade (01/03/2023)

This BIM-SPEED project is testing its solutions in 13 real demonstration cases that cover all of Europe’s climatic geo-clusters and varying levels of BIM experience across different countries. In the Lichtenrade demonstration site in Berlin, Germany, two BIM-SPEED tools have been implemented and tested.

SENSEI videos: Pay-for-Performance programmes (01/03/2023)

The SENSEI project has prepared a series of videos to explain the potential and benefits of EU pay-for-performance systems. Check them out in our portal now!

DIGIBUILD project (01/03/2023)

Existing buildings are at the forefront of energy consumption in Europe and are currently considered energy inefficient. The DIGIBUILD project focuses on creating digital enablers to transform existing buildings into digital and more efficient ones, thus contributing to the creation of energy-efficient building data spaces.

Retrofit HUB project (01/03/2023)

The project measures focus on facility managers, homeowners and tenants and provides them with awareness and knowledge on energy retrofit. It’s part of the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) and fosters the sustainable transformation of the building sector in Croatia, Poland and Hungary.

The new EU Industrial Strategy – ‘High Level Construction Forum’ (01/03/2023)

The European Commission is committed to the creation of a new ‘High Level Construction Forum’ (HLCF). Three clusters (environment, digitalisation, and resilience) have been created, and the aim is to design a roadmap with milestones and concrete actions that will help bring about a green and digital transition for the construction ecosystem.

TRI-HP – Heat Pump on Natural Refrigerants in the Context of the F-Gas Regulation (01/03/2023)

The TRI-HP project celebrated on February its final event entitled "Heat Pumps on Natural Refrigerants in the Context of the F-Gas Regulation". In BUILD UP you can check the full session or watch the highlight video with the main voices.

Webinar - Skills enhancement needed for Energy Efficient Historic Buildings (01/03/2023)

Hosted by BUILD UP, the INCREAS project (Innovation and Creative Solutions for Cultural Heritage) organised a webinar titled "Skills enhancement needed for Energy Efficient Historic Buildings”. The event took place the 28th February 2023 at 10.00H CET.

Webinar – CITIES: BUILDINGS – SKILLS Energy Renovations in Historic Areas at Different Scales (01/03/2023)

Hosted by BUILD UP and organised by the Cyprus Energy Agency (CEA), this webinar provided an overview of their projects, related to various aspects of energy efficiency of historic urban fabrics.

EU infographics on energy efficiency and savings (01/03/2023)

The European Commission has produced interactive infographics which present key facts and figures about energy topics. They are available in all EU languages and are interactive with quizzes and external links to various sources.

TerriSTORY tool for energy and ecological transition (01/03/2023)

The ENERGee WATCH project has developed an online data visualisation and territorial planning tool which allows the user to determine energy transition pathways and thus develop an action plan.

The future of smart buildings in Europe (01/03/2023)

In the last three years, SmartBuilt4EU has supported the emergence of a smart buildings market in Europe. In addition to promoting exchanges between innovators, the project has coordinated a large stakeholder community in promoting and testing the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI). The webinar will be focused on presenting the SRIA, the policy recommendations, and the final results of the project.

Learning bites on green and digital skills for the built environment (01/03/2023)

The ARISE project, in collaboration with Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre Horta ULB and Netwerk Architecten Vlaanderen (NAV), has organised this event to present opportunities for professional upskilling and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for architects. Learn about NAV architectural training initiatives in Belgium and participate in the ARISE micro-learning pilot module in BIM.

Data-driven innovations for monitoring the performance of buildings (01/03/2023)

DigiBUILD and MODERATE are two new Horizon Europe projects working on data-driven solutions to turn raw data from buildings into meaningful knowledge, and to improve the interoperability between datasets. BUILD UP hosts the first webinar of these sister projects. Join to find out more about the innovative solutions both projects are working on, with a keynote by CINEA on the topic and join the open discussion on older, big data projects.

Smart Buildings in Europe (01/03/2023)

SmartBuilt4EU and the European Commission are organising this project final conference, that will present progress in the SRI testing, policy recommendations as well as innovation priorities – based on the 12 White Papers produced by the European Smart Building Innovation Community on Occupant-centric buildings & quality of life, Smart financing & business models, Education and upskilling, etc. The conference will take place on 23rd March from 9:00 to 16:00 at COMET LOUISE, Place Stéphanie 20, 1050 Brussels.

02/02/2023

BUILD UP Newsletter

FEBRUARY TOPIC OF THE MONTH: Energy efficiency renovation of historic buildings (01/02/2023)

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications that are covering a specific topic. The topic of the month (TOM) for February is the energy efficient renovation of historic buildings. Our Editorial Board is eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles now. Become a contributor! In this edition of the newsletter, you will find some of the most relevant contents of January’s TOM: "Renewable heating solutions for existing buildings".

Integrating Heat Pumps in Existing Residential Buildings (01/02/2023)

This article, written by Roberto Fedrizzi (Eurac Research), reports on the opportunities and barriers the sector is facing when addressing residential buildings retrofit, while heat pumps have topped 20% of the small-scale heat generators market in the EU.

From opaque traditional walls to Adaptative Façade Systems: state of play and outlook (01/02/2023)

Miren Juaristi and Davide Brandolini, from the Institute for Renewable Energy, Eurac Research, write about the evolution of opaque façade technologies, highlighting what they think is the most promising characteristic of Adaptive Opaque Facades: their ability to allow or block thermal energy exchange depending on the climatic conditions.

BUILDING CONVERSATIONS UP - Dan Stefanica, Head of EU projects at European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) (01/02/2023)

"40% of all residential and 65% of all commercial buildings will be heated by electricity in 2030". BUILD UP talks with Dan Stefanica, who is leading the implementation of 11 EU-funded and internal projects, covering everything related to the research, design, deployment, and training needed in the fast-growing heat pump sector.

Finland has increased the selling of heat pumps by 50% in 2022 (01/02/2023)

According to the Finnish Heat Pump Association SULPU statistics, Finland has seen in 2022 an increase of 50% of the sales of heat pumps. In particular, the number of air-to-air heat pumps was 160,000, whereas the number of air-to-water heat pumps sold was 19,000 but with an increase of almost 60%.

Sarajevo to introduce heat pumps in district heating system (01/02/2023)

To resolve the big issue of air pollution due to firewood and coal heating in houses, and the use of natural gas and heavy fuel oil in district heating, the city of Sarajevo is about to launch several projects to install heat pumps for the district heating system.

7 trends on how digitalisation and sustainability can shape the construction industry (01/02/2023)

Digitalisation and sustainability are expected to lead to big changes in the construction and real estate industry. Discover the seven trends that you can already identify to better understand the future.

EU project WEDISTRICT searching for district heating experts’ consultation (01/02/2023)

Are you an expert in district heating and cooling systems, particularly the 4th and 5th generation systems? Share your knowledge and participate in #WEDISTRICT's survey on energy transition systems, the deadline is February 15th 2023.

BUILD UP Ambassadors – We are looking for you! (01/02/2023)

BUILD UP is expanding its team of ambassadors! If you are a high-ranking professional and you want to share your knowledge with our community, while spreading our values and mission nationally, don’t hesitate to get in touch and check the requirements to join our fantastic team.

EUSEW AWARDS – Check the guidelines to apply! (01/02/2023)

The European Sustainable Energy Awards recognise outstanding individuals and projects for their innovation and efforts in the field of energy efficiency and renewables, with prizes in three categories: Innovation, Local Energy Action and Woman in Energy.

What is the future of heat pumps? IEA share their perspective (01/02/2023)

The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that heat pumps globally have the potential to reduce global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by at least 500 million tonnes in 2030. They share their perspective and suggestions on how to accelerate and support the deployment of heat pumps, powered by low-emissions electricity, in the future.

Status of technology development of heat pumps in the EU (01/02/2023)

‘Heat pumps in the European Union 2022’ is a status report implemented by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, about technology development, trends, value chains and markets related to heat pumps in the EU.

Energy crisis support for Castillian consumers (01/02/2023)

The Regional Government of Castilla y León (Spain) and EREN, the Regional Energy Agency, are running two subsidy programms which respectively promote investments in self-consumption and storage with renewable energy sources and the installation of renewable thermal energy in the residential and non-residential sectors.

Bordeaux Metropole and the development of district heating network (01/02/2023)

Energy Cities has published this innovative case study of the city of Bordeaux and the development of its district heating network in order to attain to the mitigation and adaptation measures for cities.

The ODYSEE-MURE project: tools for implementing the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) (01/02/2023)

The ODYSEE-MURE project provides updated databases and tools to help the European Commission member states to implement the framework of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) in the European Union in the most efficient way possible.

ThermoDust project: New Materials for IT Equipment (01/02/2023)

The ThermoDust project will work towards new materials for IT equipment with beneficial thermal characteristics, as it is estimated that 40% of the total energy consumption of a typical office building goes to cooling this equipment.

The D2Heat project: Helping Croatian district heating sector (01/02/2023)

This project, funded by LIFE Programme, acts as a support facility for the Croatian district heating sector. The country has developed the Energy Strategy for 2030 towards 2050, which includes the importance of increasing energy efficiency in the building, heating, and air-conditioning sectors.

FRIENDSHIP first e-learning video (01/02/2023)

FRIENDSHIP is an all-in-one solution, flexible and user-friendly, able to provide reliable and quality heat and cold to industrial processes with maximum economic profitability. Check the video to see how it works and how essential it is to focus on decarbonising heat in the industrial sector.

Webinar - Energy generation and storage technologies in buildings (01/02/2023)

SunHorizon, HAPPENING, MiniStor and ComBioTES were the four projects that participated in the first BUILD UP organised and hosted webinar of 2023. Watch the video to discover more about technological solutions for heating/cooling coupled with renewables, and other aspects of energy/thermal energy storage.

Webinar - Novel heat pump technologies based on natural refrigerants and multiple renewable sources (01/02/2023)

Moderated by Jasper Vermaut, Policy & Project Officer at REHVA, this webinar was organised by the TRI-HP project and presented its main results, consequence of the three heat pump systems that have been tested within the project.

HP4All Knowledge Hub about heat pumps (01/02/2023)

The HP4ALL project has created a Knowledge Hub in which a user can find all the information concerning heat pumps installation and skills development. The project´s objectives are mainly to design heat pump competency and develop a skills framework and to replicate projects at national and EU-levels.

BIM4EEB - BIM management system (01/02/2023)

BIM4EEB aims to foster the renovation industry by developing an attractive and powerful BIM management system with BIM-based toolset able to support designers in the design and planning phase, construction companies to efficiently carry out the work and service companies to provide attractive solutions for building retrofitting.

Heat Pumps skills for NZEB construction final workshop (01/02/2023)

In this event, the HP4ALL consortium will present the project results and showcase its HP4ALL package online, a series of tools and resources to be used by the different related heat pumps stakeholders. Attendance is possible either in person or online.

CITIES – BUILDINGS – SKILLS: Energy Renovations in Historic Areas at Different Scales (01/02/2023)

This webinar, organised by the Cyprus Energy Agency (CEA) and hosted by BUILD UP, will provide an overview of the CEA’s projects that relate to various aspects of energy efficiency of historic urban fabrics.

Decarbonising our built environment – Making sure we have the right skills (01/02/2023)

What skills do we need to decarbonise our built environment? How can we address skills and labour shortages in the industry, and reach net zero by 2050? This event is organised in partnership with the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) as part of the BUSLeague project.

The Heat Pump Award (01/02/2023)

The Heat Pump Award is an EHPA project which recognises the most efficient, smart, and sustainable Heat Pump project at the local level. Launched in 2011, the international appeal of the award has grown year after year and now attracts participants from all over Europe and beyond.

19/01/2023

BUILD UP Newsletter

JANUARY TOPIC OF THE MONTH: Renewable heating solutions for existing buildings (18/01/2023)

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications that are covering a specific topic. The topic of the month (TOM) for January is Renewable heating solutions for existing buildings. Our Editorial Board is eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles now. Become a contributor! In this edition of the newsletter you will also find some of the most relevant contents of the December’s TOM: "Building envelope and facade technologies for efficient buildings".

Technical Article - Performance of the main technologies demonstrated in the ENVISION project (18/01/2023)

Within the context of the ENVISION project, different technologies have been developed aiming to harvest energy while being integrated into the façade of buildings. These have been tested in a variety of demonstration sites with a monitoring phase of around one year in order to assess their performances. This paper reports their performance, focussing on solar façade collectors coupled with Heat Pumps and PV windows.

Technical Article – Rethinking building roofs: aligning sustainability, environmental respect, and wellbeing (18/01/2023)

Are roof spaces well exploited? How do they contribute to the efficiency of buildings? This article proposes several ways of redesigning roofs to enhance sustainability parameters such as Renewable PV production, energy savings, thermal comfort, water use reduction and leisure areas.

Technical Article - Plug-and-use renovation with adaptable lightweight systems (18/01/2023)

This article outlines the technical innovations developed by the H2020 PLURAL project (Plug-and-Use Renovation with Adaptable Lightweight Systems), that proposes prefabricated, modular, and adaptable lightweight façade systems for rapid renovation of existing buildings, providing high-performance, cost-effective, and fast renovation solutions.

Expert Talks – Uli Jakob (18/01/2023)

Uli Jakob, Honorary Professor at HFT Stuttgard and Managing Director of JER, speaks about renewable heating solutions for buildings.

Expert Talks – Thaleia Konstantinou (18/01/2023)

Assistant Professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering and Technology (TU Delft), Thaleia Konstantinou talks about building envelope and facade technologies for efficient buildings.

EUSEW 2023 is getting closer: keep an eye on the deadlines! (18/01/2023)

The time is getting shorter to play an active role during the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2023, that will take place in Brussels and online on 20-22 June 2023. Stay tuned and do not miss any of the deadlines to apply for the different calls (organisation of session, Awards, stand). Registrations to attend EUSEW 2023 will go live from mid-April.

Call for BUILD UP Ambassadors (18/01/2023)

Our BUILD UP Ambassadors are the engine that expands the borders of our platform; high-ranking professionals who selflessly share their knowledge with our community and spread our values and mission nationally. Check the requirements to join our ambassador team!

Athens is planning to rejuvenate its buildings´ facades (18/01/2023)

Athens has developed a ‘Façade’ (Πρόσοψη) programme to renovate the facades of its buildings. The main difference of this programme compared to others in the EU is that the city is offering homeowners 100% of the funds required to do the work – to a maximum of 6,000 euros per building, and even more for protected buildings.

If most cars can tell us how much energy we’re using, why can’t our houses? (18/01/2023)

Despite the European-wide roll out of the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) –an instrument that assesses how close a building comes to being energy smart-, adoption has been happening at different paces. The attractiveness of digitalisation investments has proven to vary among geographies, and regional differences in regulation and markets stress inequalities.

A selection of top facades in 2022 (18/01/2023)

The Architects Newspaper has selected innovative and successful facades of buildings that have been presented during 2022. The facades are made of different materials, such as terra-cotta, rammed earth and mass timber which offer different building envelope solutions based on the climate zones in which they are based.

Renovation of old buildings to minimise the environmental impact (18/01/2023)

A comprehensive guide, results of a project called ‘Mitigation of climate change in historic buildings’ which was implemented with Croatia Green Building Council, explains how to make better use of old buildings to minimise their environmental impact and reduce their carbon footprint. The book also presents a tool which indicates the best solutions based on the conditions of buildings.

Searching for space for nature-positive renewables (18/01/2023)

EU plans to expand renewables will reshape land use in Europe, decision-makers must develop strategic spatial planning to scale up renewable energy capacity in harmony with nature protection and local communities. For solar contexts, rooftops are the best solution, providing benefits both in terms of energy and environmental impact. Solar development integrated in built environments should be prioritised and administrative barriers to installation should be removed.

Energy rehabilitation of a social housing façade (18/01/2023)

This case study presents the energy rehabilitation of a facade of a social housing building located in Catalonia through the installation of an innovative, prefabricated, and modular facade system that integrates active and passive technologies and circular economy principles.

Passive House residence in Roncq (18/01/2023)

These apartment houses in Roncq (Hauts-de-France) are Passive House certified. Their thermal envelope and mechanical systems have efficient energy consumption results. Moreover, the buildings recover energy from grey water.

EASI ZERo Project: Envelope Material System with low Impact for Zero Energy Buildings (18/01/2023)

EASI ZERo proposes a global system to cut the environmental impact by rising the thermal performance of buildings’ envelope by 20% with bio-sourced and recycled materials.

SUPERSHINE Project: Implementing the European Green Deal (18/01/2023)

The objectives and impacts of the SUPERSHINE project will assist and support the European Commission to implement the European Green Deal, paying particular attention to the renovation of social housing.

Envola storage heat pump: a new product category (18/01/2023)

The Envola storage heat pump enables the world’s first highly energy-efficient heating, cooling and ventilation system significantly reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in Europe.

SAFE-FACE Project: Innovative seismic-resilient façade designs (18/01/2023)

The EU-funded SAFE-FACE project will develop earthquake-proof sustainable facades for mid-rise and newly built residential and office buildings via sustainable techniques for integrating damage-control.

Webinar - Lightweight switchable smart solutions for energy saving glass facades (18/01/2023)

The webinar, hosted by BUILD UP, presented the main features of Switch2Save technology and its potential impact and introduced the Architectural Design Competition.

Webinar - The Plug-N-Harvest solution enabling smart energetic renovations for different building cases (18/01/2023)

Moderated by Aranzazu Galán González, Senior Researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles and BUILD UP’s Editorial Board Member, and hosted by BUILD UP, this webinar presented material and outcomes from the H2020 Plug-n-Harvest project which has recently ended (November 2022).

CinderOss - CINDERELA One-Stop-Shop service for sustainable urban construction (18/01/2023)

The CINDERELA Project has developed the CinderOSS tool, a One-Stop-Shop service representing a digital business environment and supporting new business models for a sustainable urban construction.

The BERLIN Smart Tool for building integrated energy systems design (18/01/2023)

The BERLIN Smart Tool, developed by University of Western Macedonia and within the BERLIN project, calculates the proper size and combination of photovoltaics and battery storage systems in order to reach self-sufficiency in buildings.

Heat Pump skills and competencies: Preparing for mass deployment (18/01/2023)

This event, which will be celebrated the 25th January, addresses the outcomes of the HP4ALL project. The ultimate aim is to develop a Mutual Recognition approach that is coupled with a relevant Competency Framework for the range of knowledge, skills and expertise required to ensure that the relevant HP technologies are installed to the highest quality as to make the maximum contribution towards the energy transition.

Energy generation and storage technologies in buildings (18/01/2023)

Hosted and organised by BUILD UP on 26th January, this webinar will present two projects that explore technological solutions for heating/cooling coupled with renewables (SunHorizon and HAPPENING) and two projects that explore aspects of energy/thermal energy storage (MiniStor and ComBioTES).

World Sustainable Energy Days 2023 (18/01/2023)

The price crisis, multiplying signs of climate change, and threats to energy security urge us to act like never before. REPowerEU reflects this urgency and provides new momentum for the energy transition. In 2023, the World Sustainable Energy Days 28th February - 3rd March) show the critical role of the energy transition in securing our clean energy future and concrete policies, technologies, and markets to get us there.

Switch2Save Architectural Design Competition (18/01/2023)

The Switch2Save Architectural Design Competition aims to collect design concepts of non- residential buildings (new or renovation projects), featuring glass facades, roofs, or large window to wall areas, in any climatic context. The challenge is to present a design concept in which there is an optimum exploitation of the Switch2Save EC/TC smart functionalities, supported by a clear energy saving concept towards meeting the EU energy saving targets for buildings, while considering occupants’ comfort and wellbeing. The announcement of winners will be on May 2023.

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05/12/2022

BUILD UP Newsletter

DECEMBER’S TOPIC OF THE MONTH: Building envelope and facade technologies for efficient buildings (30/11/2022)

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications that are covering a specific topic. The topic of the month for December is ‘Building envelope and facade technologies for efficient buildings’. Our Editorial Board is eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles now. Become a contributor!

Overview Article – Fostering the demand for a skilled labour force in the construction industry (30/11/2022)

The construction industry employs 13 million people across the EU27 and is a major driver of economic development. Unfortunately, it seems to be failing at attracting younger generations. Blerta Vula, BUILD UP’s Ambassador, expands on the 5 main reasons for this and gives some key points that the construction sector must address to meet the demand for skilled workers and solve this problem.

Digital skills for Heritage Conservation (05/12/2022)

Digitalisation and digital technologies present a great opportunity for Heritage Conservation, particularly regarding our Built Heritage and its sustainable use. This can be for finding the least invasive solution for structural restoration or implementing conservation-compatible and future-proof solutions in energy retrofit of historic buildings. Professionals are needed who can understand and quantify the complex physical processes required with the help of digital tools and will collaborate with their analysis to interdisciplinary dialogue before any conservation-related decision is made. The co-operative M.Sc. on Digital Technologies in Conservation (Digitale Denkmaltechnologien) at the universities of Bamberg and Coburg aim to provide these skills.

Calls are open for the European Sustainable Energy Week 2023 (30/11/2022)

Under the theme "Accelerating the clean energy transition – towards lower bills and greater skills", the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2023 will take place in Brussels and online on 20-22 June 2023. The calls for hosting a policy session and having a stand are now open.

How do BUILD UP Skills help you to have better-qualified professionals? (30/11/2022)

Luca Angelino, Project Adviser at the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) gives some clues about how the European Build Up Skills initiative can help stakeholders through the EU to strengthen the framework for qualification and skills in the construction sector, with the focus on sustainable energy. Check our YouTube channel!

Call for BUILD UP Ambassadors! (30/11/2022)

Our BUILD UP Ambassadors are the engine that expands the borders of our platform— high-ranking professionals who selflessly share their knowledge with our community and spread our values and mission nationally. Check the requirements to join our ambassador team!

Expert Talks – Gerald Wagenhofer (30/11/2022)

Director of the consultancy UBW Unternehmensberatung Wagenhofer GmbH, Gerald Wagenhofer has been dealing for 10 years with EU projects in the area of cultural heritage and talks about the key skills a qualified worker of cultural heritage must have or the main differences across Europe.

The construction skills crisis in Europe and possible solutions (30/11/2022)

A growing workforce crisis has been affecting the construction industry across Europe. Construction has an image problem which is holding recruitment back when it is most needed. Mike Hayes, editor of the construction industry magazine Construction Europe, looks at possible solutions to the growing workforce crisis.

EU Roadmap Series: Building regulations in decarbonising the EU’s built environment (30/11/2022)

Building regulations are an important tool for decarbonising the EU building stock and reach neutrality and energy efficiency targets by 2050. Policy efforts should primarily focus on energy efficiency (especially operational carbon of buildings) and measures to decarbonise heating and cooling.

What is the future of digital construction skills? (30/11/2022)

Innovative techniques and technologies are more and more present in the construction sector globally. Hence, and according to the Future of Jobs report, there is a need to upskill and train the workforce, and at the same time to solve the issue of innovation and change resistance which is still affecting the construction industry. How should companies overcome these issues?

Energy advice for consumers and policy interventions to tackle energy poverty (30/11/2022)

The STEP project´s key aim was to advise consumers on energy savings and implementing energy efficient solutions based on their location. The project also organised specific online and on-site training for frontline workers who were responsible for directly raising awareness among households.

Speeding up renovation of buildings through investment on skills (30/11/2022)

Renovate Europe addresses the need to further invest in a skilled workforce in the renovation sector to reach climate neutrality and meet social goals. The main challenges are attracting workers, upskilling those already in the industry, and offering specific training programmes in-line with evolving digital trends.

10 ways to accelerate the EU heat transition (30/11/2022)

Ten EU Energy organisations urge the European Commission to revise the EU heating & cooling strategy. They highlight that there is an urgent need to accelerate the roll-out of renewable and clean heating technologies in buildings and industry to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and respond to the energy crisis.

Construction Skills School (EBBA) in London (30/11/2022)

This centre for construction skills learning has been delivered by EBBA together with the London Legacy Development Corporation. The school provides the opportunity for local people to be sponsored through practical education and training. The result is an innovative and sustainable solutions and adaptable architecture.

Efficiency House Plus School Building (30/11/2022)

The Louise Otto-Peters school in Hockenheim, Germany, was the first educational institution to be granted support under the ‘Efficiency House Plus – Educational Buildings’ funding programme. The newbuild combines three different school types under one roof (a pre-vocational training programme, a vocational upper secondary school, and a geriatric nurse/educator training programme) which are attended by up to 280 students in total. The school building is conformant with the Efficiency House Plus standard.

NEBULA Project: Connecting Innovation Clusters (30/11/2022)

The NEBULA projects will build upon the New European Bauhaus Unlocked through Built4People partnership (B4P) endorsed Local Actions.

StreamSAVE Project: Streamlining Energy Savings Calculations (30/11/2022)

StreamSAVE aims to assist Member States in their efforts to deliver rapidly scalable savings and increase their chances of successfully meeting energy efficiency targets under Articles 3 (it states how each Member State shall set an indicative national energy efficiency target) and 7 (it refers to the energy saving obligations for Member States) of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). A series of activities, divided into three categories, will be carried out with the intent of improving energy-saving methodology capacities and skills of stakeholders across Europe.

EU taxonomy for sustainable activities (30/11/2022)

The EU taxonomy is a classification system, that establishes a list of environmentally sustainable economic activities. This could play an important role in helping the EU scale up sustainable investment and the implementation of the European green deal.

SuperTandem Project: Cleaning Energy by Innovative Photovoltaic Modules (30/11/2022)

The SuperTandem project aims to develop sustainable materials and manufacturing processes for the development of high-efficiency, flexible, all-Perovskite Tandem photovoltaic modules with low CO2 footprint.

Webinar - Leveraging on standardisation for building data aggregation and analytics (30/11/2022)

On 8th November, BUILD UP hosted the webinar ‘Leveraging on standardisation for building data aggregation and analytics’, a workshop organised by the BIGG project in collaboration with their sister projects MATRYCS and BUILTHUB.

Webinar - Renovating Europe's buildings: opportunities for workforce upskilling in cohesion funding (30/11/2022)

Moderated by Adrian Joyce, Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign, this session focused on the needs of today’s workforce in terms of building renovations and highlighted funding opportunities in the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2021-2027 to help regions and cities step up to the challenge.

BUILD UP Skills Advisor app: an easy tool for professional training (30/11/2022)

The BUILD UP Skills Advisor app is a free tool for practitioners and skilled workers to look for opportunities for training in Europe and some specific EU countries. It also contains a community managed content repository, and can facilitate the use of micro-credentials for personal recognition and lifelong learning.

Comparing qualification schemes and learning outcomes with the European Skills Registry (30/11/2022)

The European Skills Registry (ESR) is a web-based platform providing functions for comparing various qualification schemes and learning outcomes and allows the listing of qualified experts in a central experts database which is connected to a match-making hub.

The time for building renovation (30/11/2022)

The rehabilitation regulations, the Xaloc offices, the figure of the rehabilitation manager and agent, strategies, taxation or innovation and transfer will be some of the topics to be addressed in this Spanish conference on rehabilitation. It will be also possible to follow it online (sessions are in Spanish only).

The Future Envelope - Towards Zero Carbon (30/11/2022)

This conference aims at providing new points of view on the current state, upcoming challenges, and innovations in the field of building envelope design, manufacturing, installation, operation, and dismantling. The broad scope is to ease the path towards nature‐compliant, human‐centred comfortable and efficient buildings. It is structured in four thematic chaired sessions with keynote speakers, merging international and South‐Tirol perspectives!

BAU - World's Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials and Systems (30/11/2022)

The BAU, the World's Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials and Systems, takes place every two years. Everyone involved in the international community for planning, building and designing buildings comes together here, including architects, planners, investors, representatives of the industrial and commercial sectors, the building trades, etc.

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04/11/2022

BUILD UP Newsletter

Topic of the Month: Boosting demand for skilled workers in the building sector (02/11/2022)

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications that are covering a specific topic. The topic of the month for November is ‘Boosting demand for skilled workers in the building sector’. Our Editorial Board is eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles. Become a contributor now!

Circularity and low-carbon building materials in construction (02/11/2022)

While the operational energy consumption in low energy buildings is significantly reduced, the embodied GHG emissions of the building materials used in construction can account for half of the life-cycle carbon footprint of the building.

Analysis of Building Typologies as A Driver to Identify Optimal Retrofitting - Overview of EU-funded projects (02/11/2022)

How can the renovation rate be improved? Brussels Leopold neighbourhood is used as a case study to present the definition and analysis of the typologies of existing buildings and their components as a valuable option while improving the impact and efficiency of early design stage retrofitting decisions.

Expert Talks - Maria Founti (02/11/2022)

"Prefabrication is key to circular construction: it offers significant savings in costs of production of the component, time for the construction on-site and minimisation of the waste that is produced". Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Maria Founti talks about the benefits of using circular prefabricated and modular construction and how prefabrication is improving material recycling and reuse.

Second call for local energy planners for the Act!onHeat Support Facility (02/11/2022)

The Act!onHeat Project has opened its second European-wide Call for Applicants to all local energy planners interested in receiving strategic support to establish or improve their Heating & Cooling infrastructure. The Call for Applications is open until 31 December 2022 via EUSurvey.

4 digital technologies to advance in the circular construction (02/11/2022)

How can we foster the circularity of construction materials to make them profitable for the complexity of today´s industry? How can we improve processes which are so fragmented? Read about four digital technologies which can enhance circularity and processes. Author: Catherine De Wolf (Professor at ETH Zurich).

Identifying new and innovative strategies to reduce carbon emissions and waste in the construction sector (02/11/2022)

The current world is defined by technological innovation which has led to population growth. Hence, there is a need for a sustainable transition towards circularity and circular construction. How can the industry engage stakeholders in the construction sector more to cooperate towards this goal?

The role of circularity and low-carbon materials in building projects (02/11/2022)

Why is the way we build so important? How is the construction and building industry going to be transformed to meet energy transition targets? According to Giulia Potor, from Partel, by integrating Life Cycle Assessment for construction projects, professionals can optimise whole life carbon, cost, and circularity of design.

Reducing the lifecycle carbon footprint of buildings while fostering innovation in renovation (02/11/2022)

The BPIE report "Whole life carbon and industrial renovation: realising the opportunities to reduce the lifecycle carbon footprint of buildings" focuses on opportunities to leverage both the whole-life carbon impact of renovation and industrial prefabricated renovation solutions and provides recommendations for policymakers aiming to create an optimal policy framework to reduce emissions from buildings while fostering innovation in the renovation sector.

Fully self-sufficient buildings in Männedorf, Switzerland (02/11/2022)

This case study of residential buildings represents the first residential building in the world with an intelligent and consistent combination of photovoltaics, battery storage, synthetic e-gas/biogas and intelligent energy management (hybrid box). It has received recognition at the Energy & Temperate Climates Prize of the Green Solutions Awards 2020-21.

Passive House multi-family dwelling in Zaragoza (02/11/2022)

This certified Passive House multi-family dwelling in Zaragoza (Spain) has been built taking into consideration the occupant’s comfort, such as indoor air quality (IAQ) and acoustics, and ecological aspects, such as aerothermal energy connected to clean renewable electricity and not supplied by gas. This allows for savings in fixed costs, taxes, and maintenance.

AEGIR project: Digital and physical incremental renovation systems enhancing energetic behaviour and use of resources (02/11/2022)

AEGIR’s main objective is to demonstrate a physical and digital sustainable framework that boosts the uptake of deep retrofitting achieving nearly zero energy buildings.

FORTESIE project: CBDC-powered Smart Performance contracts for efficient, sustainable, inclusive, energy use (02/11/2022)

The overall vision of FORTESIE is to design, demonstrate, validate and replicate innovative renovation packages in the building industry with Smart Performance-Based guarantees and financing, aiming at Efficient, Sustainable and Inclusive Energy (ESIE) use to accelerate the Renovation Wave in Europe.

Digital monitoring of the construction process (02/11/2022)

The project ‘Design and implementation of a digital monitoring system of the Smart Living Lab construction site’ aims to collect georeferenced images throughout the construction phase of the future Smart Living Lab building of the EPFL.

REHOUSE project: Building's renovation packages (02/11/2022)

The main objective of REHOUSE is to develop and demonstrate 8 renovation packages for holistic improvement of EU’s building’s efficiency, maximizing RES generation and cost-effectiveness.

Webinar - Practical Tools for the Construction Sector in Digital Twin (02/11/2022)

Organised by the COGITO project, on 4 October 2022, BUILD UP hosted the webinar ‘Practical Tools for the Construction Sector in Digital Twin’. The webinar is recommended for anyone interested in Digital Twin and current practical solutions in that area. During this session, we were able to appreciate the learning and progress that this project has achieved and to exchange insights about this topic.

Webinar - Find out ICLEI’s series on Circular Buildings and Construction (02/11/2022)

The non-profit organisation ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability has launched a webinar series titled ‘Circular Buildings and Construction’, that showcases how the Circular City Actions Framework can be applied to different sectors at the local level through concrete cases from cities of different world regions. The last webinar of the series was ‘Circular Buildings and Construction’.

Kaleidoscope: Embodied Carbon Design Tool (02/11/2022)

Kaleidoscope is a tool supporting Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) at the early design stage. This allows the designers to have a clear view of the embodied carbon impacts of various design options and thereby make the final decision.

Path 2050 for a climate neutral Belgium (04/11/2022)

EnergyVille researchers have drawn data-driven maps based on three different scenarios to integrate energy systems to reach net zero emissions in Belgium by 2050. They have different implications for different sectors (e.g. residential & commercial buildings, industry, power and transport).

16th Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) (03/11/2022)

The theme of the conference is ‘Towards a new SET Plan’, marking the need to step up the SET Plan to increase the energy and climate policy ambitions. In the conference there are some interesting sessions that are relevant to buildings, such as “Research & Innovation in a lifecycle of a building”.

REHVA Brussels Summit 2022. Save the Date! (02/11/2022)

The REHVA Brussels Summit is an excellent professional networking event among REHVA Members, REHVA Supporters and Brussels-based stakeholders working in the fields of buildings, energy efficiency and indoor environment quality.

PLEA 2022: Will cities survive? (02/11/2022)

The aim of the PLEA 2022 is to question the whole idea of a city, and the way we inhabit and use them generating the definitive inflexion point that a sustainable city requires. Online sessions will take place on 22 November.

The Future Envelope – Towards Zero Carbon (02/11/2022)

The Future Envelope conference aims at providing new points of view on the current state, upcoming challenges, and innovations in the field of building envelope design, manufacturing, installation, operation and dismantling. The broad scope is to ease the path towards nature‐compliant, human‐centred comfortable and efficient buildings.

06/10/2022

BUILD UP Newsletter

Topic of the month: Circularity in materials and construction processes (05/10/2022)

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications that are covering a specific topic. The topic of the month for October is ‘Circularity in materials and construction processes’. Our editorial board is eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles now. Become a contributor!

Performance optimisation of an active façade through parametric simulations (05/10/2022)

Dynamic shading systems are essential to control solar gains and improve comfort of the building´s occupants. Moreover, dynamic facades must be coupled with a control strategy which allows for the control of shading based on multiple environmental inputs, which can be tested through parametric simulation. Designers can then have an insight into the behaviour of the building and decide on the optimal solution.

ENSNARE: Digital toolkit for a more efficient design, construction, and operation of NZEB residential renovations. (05/10/2022)

The ENSNARE project is a H2020 project to promote and develop innovative technologies to achieve NZEB renovation by via comprehensive methodology, tools, and technologies that accelerate the current renovation rate in European residential buildings. During ENSNARE, several digital tools were developed and validated that deliver several benefits to a range of stakeholders involved in NZEB renovation and are particularly relevant for the Build Up audience interested and active in Construction 4.0.

Meet BUILD UP at the Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum 2022: REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN! (05/10/2022)

BUILD UP will be present with a physical stand in the 2022 Edition of Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum – Energy Efficiency Finance Market Place, one of the most important dates related with energy efficiency financing, that will take place on 18 October in Brussels and has just opened its registration.

Expert Talks - Karine Laffont-Eloire (05/10/2022)

During the interview, Karine Laffont-Eloire (Senior Consultant & Associate Partner at Dowel Innovation) answers questions about does architecture and Construction 4.0 relates to building smartness and gives some examples of projects enhancing the European building renovation rates.

Expert Talks – Sam Ramadori (05/10/2022)

During the interview, Sam Ramadori (CEO at BrainBox AI) explains how the involvement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the improvement of building energy behaviour is making buildings respond to external factors helping to make smarter decisions in energy consumption.

10 exemplary 3D printed houses around the world (05/10/2022)

The evolution of building materials and processes has led to many possibilities of materials to choose, such as hay, tree bark, stone, timber, brick, mortar, or glass and steel. Today, we can create 3D-printed houses by using several technologies and materials which provide different ranges of thermal and acoustic comfort.

LIFE CET Call 2022 supports “Strategies and training interventions enabling a decarbonised building stock” (05/10/2022)

As part of the LIFE Clean Energy Transition call 2022, a topic supports the rebooting of the BUILD UP Skills initiative at the national level as well as upskilling and reskilling of building professionals at all levels of the value chain. The deadline is 16th November!

LIFE CET Call 2022 supports collective purchase and procurement actions for heat pumps (05/10/2022)

As part of the REPowerEU plan to phase out EU dependence on fossil fuel imports, the European Commission has set the goal of reaching 10 million heat pumps installed in the next five years across the EU. Deadline: 16th November 2022.

Ten new policy roadmaps for decarbonised buildings unveiled (05/10/2022)

Ten European Green Building Councils have developed national and regional decarbonisation roadmaps to implement the European Green Deal. Those roadmaps tackle the whole-life environmental impacts of the building and construction sector.

EU Buildings Climate Tracker: A methodology for the decarbonisation indicators of buildings (05/10/2022)

The EU Buildings Climate Tracker is a benchmark and assessment tool checking on the status of the EU building stock and its progress towards climate neutrality by 2050. The paper gives more details regarding the methodology and results.

Efficiency House Plus Compliant Extension of Primary School (05/10/2022)

Due to increasing pupil numbers and structural changes, the Municipality of Giebelstadt in Germany decided to add an extension building to the existing main building of the Giebelstadt Primary School. The new building provides space for the after-school programme and was built compliant with the Efficiency House Plus standard.

Insulation, smart LED lighting systems, geothermal heat and recycled materials: how to transform a leisure center from energy rating of E to a Nearly-Zero Energy Building (05/10/2022)

A major retrofit intervention has allowed for the transformation of a 1960 leisure centre building into an A-rated building with Nearly-Zero Energy Building (NZEB) status. Innovative energy systems and materials have improved efficiency, lowered costs, and reduced the building´s footprint.

3DBAG project: 3D Modelling in higher dimensions (05/10/2022)

The ERC project Urban Modelling in higher dimensions (UMnD) has developed a solution for detailed 3D Building models Automatically Generated for very large areas (3DBAG). This prototype was applied to generate detailed 3D models for all 10 million buildings in The Netherlands.

ACCORD project: Digitalising processes using BIM (05/10/2022)

ACCORD's objective is to digitalise permitting and compliance processes using BIM and other data sources to improve the productivity and quality of design and construction processes, support the design of climate-neutral buildings, and advance a sustainable built environment in line with the EU Green Deal and new European Bauhaus initiative.

Digital tracking installation to generate photogrammetric models, construction time lapse and point clouds during the building phase (05/10/2022)

SYNERGIES project: Transitioning through Energy Data (05/10/2022)

SYNERGIES introduces a reference Energy Data Space Implementation that will attempt to unleash the data-driven innovation and sharing potential across the energy data value chain by leveraging on the data and intelligence coming from diverse energy actors and coupled sectors (buildings, mobility) and effectively making them reachable and widely accessible.

Webinar - Making building performance assessment transparent & holistic (05/10/2022)

On 20 September, and as part of European Sustainable Energy Week 2022 extended programme, EPB Centre, ECI, BPIE and ECTP brought together key actors to make the invisible visible and debate about the importance of choices made in the national building performance assessment methods and their prerequisite role and high impact in completely decarbonising in practice the EU’s building stock by 2050.

Webinar - Leveraging digitalisation and construction skills towards 2030 energy goals (05/10/2022)

Hosted by the BUILD UP portal, this European Sustainable Energy Week session proposed by ACE-CAE will revolve around the evaluation of the construction market and identified needs for digitalisation and enhanced skills to achieve 2030 energy efficiency goals, from the experience of 9 EU founded projects.

Replication toolkit for small-medium European cities with zero-carbon vision (05/10/2022)

SmartEnKIT is the official replication toolkit of the SmartEnCity project. It collects all main project learnings, methods, and outcomes to share insights and inspire other small and medium-sized European cities with a zero-carbon vision along their journeys.

The PEDTool for cities to assess their readiness to develop a Positive Energy District (05/10/2022)

The MAKING-CITY PED-readiness indicator tool (PEDTool) allows cities to quickly and simply assess whether they are ready to develop a Positive Energy District (PED) which helps the city to become climate neutral.

SBE22 Delft: Preparing for the European Renovation Wave (05/10/2022)

The SBE Regional Conference Innovations for the Urban Energy Transition brings professionals and researchers together to discuss the implementation of leading-edge solutions to some of our greatest societal challenges around the energy transition in the building sector.

|Conference| European Energy Efficiency Day (05/10/2022)

This first edition will be hosted online on 13 October. The aim is to create a new, unique platform to debate, exchange ideas, transfer knowledge and explore cost efficient and socially fair decarbonisation paths.

Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum 2022 (05/10/2022)

This edition of the Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum will include plenary sessions with high-level representatives from the European Commission, cities, and investment community. Many projects will be present.

|Conference| 17th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo (05/10/2022)

17th Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo is the international event on innovative building envelopes for architects, engineers, scientists, and the construction industry. The Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo has been running for over 15 years and is the premier international event for innovative building envelopes.

31/08/2022

BUILD UP Newsletter

Topic of the month: Architecture and Construction 4.0 (31/08/2022)

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications covering a specific topic. The topic of the month for September is ‘Architecture and Construction 4.0’. Our editorial board is eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles. Become a contributor!

Overcoming the main barriers to the uptake of building retrofit through an industrialised approach (31/08/2022)

How can digitalisation and industrialisation accelerate deep renovation in the building industry? Prefabricated technologies have theoretically high potentials, but stakeholders are still sceptical in adopting them. More and more projects are now proving that these technologies can lead to many advantages in terms of time and costs.

Implementation examples and the testing phase of the Smart Readiness Indicator (31/08/2022)

To support the adoption of the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI), a better understanding of its implications needs to be promoted. This technical article presents technical solution packages, as developed within the H2020 SmartBuilt4EU project, which is complemented by an infographic on this subject.

The energy label of existing heating appliances as a tool for the energy transition of the heating sector (31/08/2022)

Across Europe, the installed heating appliance stock is generally fairly old, with around 60% of the heating appliances being rated within the lowest two classes of the energy label scale. An energy labelling methodology for old appliances has been developed to rate appliances that were installed before the introduction of the EU energy label.

Expert Talks – Pau García Audi (31/08/2022)

During the interview, García Audi answers questions about the main objectives of the Energy Performance Certification (EPC) scheme for buildings and the planning of the European Commission to raise end-users awareness.

Expert Talks - Jaap Hogeling and Lukas Kranzl (31/08/2022)

During this interview, Hogeling answers questions about the role of the EPB centre and the main advantages and challenges of implementing Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) in EU member states. For his part, Kranzl answers questions related to the X-tendo project, such as "What are the main X-tendo toolbox indicators?" and "How will the X-tendo outputs be further implemented?"

Events of interest for the BUILD UP community during the EUSEW 2022 (31/08/2022)

This short article points to some of the events of interest to the BUILD UP community during the Sustainable Energy Week 2022, so that interested parties do not miss out on any details!

What more can policymakers do to reduce energy losses in buildings? (31/08/2022)

According to Quentin de Hults, the Director of the Green and Healthy Buildings programme at the European Copper Institute, it is important to boost the energy efficiency potential of technical building systems in order to address the energy and climate crisis. This should be taken into account in the recast of the EPBD. How can heat recovery in domestic hot water systems be improved? What about the electrical installations?

How can data from energy performance of buildings contribute to the EU Renovation Wave? (31/08/2022)

Digitalisation and Energy Performance Certification (EPC) support the EU Renovation Wave. Three projects (QualDeEPC, CrossCERT and MATRYCS) present their recommendations and tools during the FEDARENE General Assemblies.

How to improve the Energy Performance Certificate of your home (31/08/2022)

To sell or rent homes in the UK, it is mandatory to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). How can you make homes more energy efficient and thus save on the energy bills? There are several steps you can take. Properties with higher energy efficiency rating are generally more attractive to prospective buyers or tenants.

Commission approves €2.98 billion German scheme to promote green district heating (31/08/2022)

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €2.98 billion German scheme to promote green district heating, based on renewable energy and waste heat. The measure will contribute to the implementation of Germany‘s National Energy and Climate Plan and to the EU's strategic objectives relating to the EU Green Deal, in particular the EU's 2050 climate neutrality target.

Want to know more about Level(s)? Expand your knowledge about the life cycle of a construction project (31/08/2022)

The Level(s) eLearning programme can help professionals who would like to know more about Level(s) assessment for the life cycle of a building project. The course is divided into several modules, and it targets the diverse roles and responsibilities based on all kinds of building professionals.

Standardised methodologies and dataset for Energy Performance Labelling of buildings (31/08/2022)

The final report by ELISE (Energy and Location Applications) addresses the need to improve energy efficiency of the building stock. In order to do so, they highlight the need to develop standardised calculation methodologies and interoperable building data to perform energy simulations.

Semi-detached timber frame houses in Bergneustadt (31/08/2022)

This case study presents an example of a residential building in timber frame and certified as meeting the Passive House standard. Read more about this great project to learn about the envelope, the mechanical systems, and PHPP values.

Learnlife Eco Hub: a sustainability and innovation centre near Barcelona (31/08/2022)

This learning centre is an excellent case of sustainable and energy efficient construction, certified to Passive House standard. The hub is a prefabricated timber module with low impact building materials, a Passivhaus certified mechanical ventilation system, and it generates onsite most of the energy that it consumes.

EENVEST project video: How to read indicators related to energy efficiency (31/08/2022)

The EENVEST project has released the second of a series of illustrative videos about the project. Gabriele Fregonese, from SINLOC, talks about what investors should expect from this particular type of investment and how EENVEST KPIs can help.

Humantech project (31/08/2022)

HumanTech is a ground-breaking initiative that proposes to use human-centred technologies to advance the European construction industry — increasing the safety and wellbeing of its workforce, improving its productivity, and making it greener and more resource-efficient.

Highlights | The U-Cert & X-tendo final conference (31/08/2022)

The two teams, their guest speakers and colleagues from the Next Gen EPCs cluster, came together on 6 July for the 2022 event on Energy Performance Certificates. The programme told the story of these H2020 research and innovation projects, highlighting main results and preparing the ground for the exploitation of the outputs, both at the EU and national levels. This event, powered by BPIE & REHVA, was livestreamed via the BuildUp Portal.

EQUBUILD project (31/08/2022)

The EU-funded EQUBUILD project presents novel architectural design strategies for enhancing societal equality in cities: an interdisciplinary case study approach to Swedish public buildings.

Energy Labelling for existing heating appliances: Lessons from the HARP Project (31/08/2022)

Hosted by the BUILD UP portal, this webinar focused on energy labelling for existing heating appliances. It featured presentations from the HARP project, explaining the methodology HARP developed and how this can be implemented in the future.

Heating System Calculator supporting the decision-making of consumers (31/08/2022)

How to make the right decision when you need to change your heating system? This calculation tool, developed within the REPLACE project, can help you to objectively compare heating systems for your building over the entire operating life. The resulting actual costs and environmental energy performance can support your final decision.

GRO, a tool to assess sustainability and circularity (31/08/2022)

Whether you are a project owner, designer, contractor, entrepreneur or member of a design office, GRO can be suitable for your new constructions, renovations and redevelopment projects of existing buildings. GRO is a holistic and relevant tool that can be used at any stage of the design process to establish the level of sustainable and circular ambition of a project. This article is written in French.

Sustainable Places 2022 (31/08/2022)

Sustainable Places 2022 arrives in Nice (France) from the 6th to the 9th of September. Each year, Sustainable Places is open to all topics related to building sustainability and most often reflect priorities of the European Commission. Register and join the two plenary sessions (on the 6th & 7th). BUILD UP will attend and cover the conference as a partner. Stay tuned!

European Sustainable Energy Week - EUSEW 2022 (31/08/2022)

The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) is the biggest annual event dedicated to renewables and efficient energy use in Europe. This comprises a series of activities aimed at building a secure energy future for Europe.

Opengela Replication Workshop: sharing the learnt lessons (31/08/2022)

Opengela is exporting! The Opengela home renovation service has grown in influence, not only in the rest of the Basque Country with new ‘district offices’ in other municipalities, but also in different European countries via its replication programme that started in September 2021.

Energy Efficient Buildings: Next Generation Energy Performance Certificates (31/08/2022)

At this event, the challenges, and solutions of the foreseen changes in the recast EPBD for local authorities will be highlighted, especially shedding a light on what role EPCs play in building renovation and how municipalities could turn them into powerful tools.

13/07/2022

BUILD UP Newsletter

Topic of the month: Energy Performance Certification and Energy Labelling (12/07/2022)

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications covering a specific topic. The topic of the month for July and August is ‘Energy Performance Certification and Energy Labelling’. Our editorial board is eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles. Become a contributor!

Monitoring retrofitted (N)ZEB dwellings: Lessons learned from current practices (12/07/2022)

Monitoring the energy performance of buildings is crucial to determine the effect and magnitude of the efforts to decrease the environmental impact of the built environment. In the case of renovated homes, monitoring their performance is also important not only to estimate how the occupants may affect the estimated energy performance of the buildings, but also to investigate the effects that the renovated measures may have on the occupants' health, comfort, and satisfaction.

Overcoming the main barriers to the uptake of building retrofit through an industrialised approach (12/07/2022)

This article discusses the market uptake of the industrialised solutions for building retrofit, highlighting the main barriers and perspectives, and trying to understand how digitalisation and industrialisation can accelerate the rate of deep renovation within the building sector. Furthermore, the effectiveness of these approaches will be evaluated, and how when coupled with new market solutions to make the renovation process as successful and appealing as possible, these can be exploited to meet decarbonisation and sustainability goals defined by the European Commission by 2050.

BUILD UP Expert Talks: Dr. Bruno Daniotti & Davide Madeddu (12/07/2022)

During this interview, both experts speak about questions such as their view on the benefits of large-scale industrial renovation, the tools that are available nowadays to effectively address serial renovation with guaranteed success from the design phase or the benefits of implementing BIM in renovation processes.

BUILD UP Expert Talks: Slavica Robić (REGEA) & Louise Sunderland (Regulatory Assistance Project) (12/07/2022)

During this interview, the experts answer questions related to reducing the energy consumption of households, and the definition of energy poverty, what the general level of awareness of European households to effectively reduce energy consumption is, and what has been proposed by European institutions to reduce the energy consumption of households.

LIFE call 2022 open: New funding opportunities for the building sector (12/07/2022)

Good news for all the BUILD UP community! The European Commission has opened the LIFE Clean Energy Transition (CET) Call for Proposals 2022. The deadline to submit your proposal is 16 November 2022.

High school in Romania turned into nearly-zero energy building (12/07/2022)

One of the largest public schools in Romania has been renovated to become a nearly-zero energy building (NZEB). This has resulted in a 60% reduction of energy consumption and most of consumed energy can be generated on site from solar photovoltaic and thermal panels.

More than 115 million smart buildings predicted by 2026 (12/07/2022)

The number of buildings globally deploying smart building technologies is forecast to reach 115 million by 2026. This represents an increase from 45 million in 2022, and it represents a growth rate of more than 150 per cent and reflects increasing demand for energy efficiency from businesses and residents alike, as energy costs spike, according to a new study from Juniper Research.

Greening buildings: EU Strategic Foresight Report 2022 highlights synergies with digital transition (12/07/2022)

Greening Buildings with digitalisation is one of the 10 key areas of the EU Strategic Foresight Report 2022, which aims to twin the green and digital transition. There are some key changes that the building sector must face, focused on the ones from demographic trends and urbanisation.

Innovations and key drivers to accelerate serial renovation solutions in Europe (12/07/2022)

The building sector is the key to achieve emissions reduction through renovation. To this end, solutions are needed to speed the current renovation rates. Industrial prefabrication for renovation comes as a promising solution to achieve this goal and create significant energy and cost savings.

Renovate2Recover: How transformational are the national recovery plans for building renovation? (12/07/2022)

The July 2021 draft Bulgarian National Recovery and Resilience Plan allocates significant resources for energy efficiency improvements, especially for multifamily residential buildings, and sets clear delivery milestones, however these are not aligned to the national targets defined in the Bulgaria’s Long-Term Renovation Strategy (LTRS)

Deep renovation: Shifting from exception to standard practice in the EU (12/07/2022)

BPIE has published a new paper, which investigates what deep renovation is, and dives into ways to define it, based on an overview of national examples and existing concepts where key parameters are outlined. Deep renovation is a multidimensional concept and guided by one overarching principle: the need to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. It sets a path for every building to be climate proof.

Passive House - Detached single family house in München (12/07/2022)

The simple and compact structure with a grey wooden façade is perfectly tailored to meet the needs of a family. Straight through the hallway you enter the heart of the ground floor, the large, open-plan cooking, dining, and living area, which opens onto the garden via generous windows to the south and west. A platform staircase leads to the upper floor, where there are two equally sized children's bedrooms to the south and the master bedroom to the north.

Villa Capodivacca, Italy (12/07/2022)

The restoration and energy refurbishment of Villa Capodivacca in Saccolongo, Padua, is among those that can be defined as low impact. The Villa was affected by material degradation especially in north façade and resulted in discomfort indoors. During the intervention, it was necessary to immediately improve the seismic protection of the structure.

HEART project | Interview with Niccolò Aste from POLIMI (12/07/2022)

Aste explains the high potential of the HEART toolkit replicability across the EU building stock, given the large number of buildings with the same energy features as the project demonstration buildings. Its innovation will allow the system to compete with others in the market, as it covers all possible aspects of energy renovation, and this was put into a synergistic, holistic package that has the potential to cut up to 90% of a building’s energy consumption.

GRETA project (12/07/2022)

The EU-funded GRETA project will conduct research to develop energy citizenship contracts that support the transition goals within energy communities, and recommendations aimed at improving the policymaking process towards stimulating energy citizenship.

HOUSEFUL project (12/07/2022)

HOUSEFUL will introduce solutions to become more resource efficient throughout the lifecycle of a building, taking into account an integrated circular approach where energy, materials, waste and water aspects are considered. This approach fosters new forms of co-creation, increasing the collaboration among stakeholders of the housing value chain to develop new circular solutions and services.

EC² project: Energy Citizenship and Energy Communities for a Clean-Energy Transition (12/07/2022)

The EU-funded EC2 project will develop a psychological conceptualisation to understand what it takes to become an energy citizen and identify legal and socio-economic market factors that can hinder or promote the emergence and engagement of citizens in energy communities.

BIM4Ren project | Tools for Data Driven Renovation Design (12/07/2022)

Check the latest webinar from the BIM4Ren project. This session allowed us to learn about tools such as the 3BTool, the Renovation Manager, the Scenario Comparison tool, BIMSolar, and so on. The objective is to help improve the low productivity rate of the European construction sector in the market segment of energy renovation.

BIM4EEB round-table at New European Bauhaus - Tools for digitalisation, inclusion, and affordability in building renovation (12/07/2022)

The panellists discussed how the digital tools developed by the project can facilitate inclusion, accessibility and affordability during the building renovation process, and also about how the public and private sectors can benefit from the tools.

Solutions4renovation - A TURNKEY solution for single-family and multi-family buildings renovation (12/07/2022)

This tool offers an integrated home renovation service supporting homeowners with a turnkey solution for information about their home (initial technical and social / behavioural diagnosis), potential works (technical and economical offers), contacts with providers and installers and contracting of works, structuring and provision of financial incentives, monitoring / onsite coordination of works and quality assurance and commissioning and post-assessment of the works and of the building performance.

EERAdata Decision Support Tool: Practical Guide (12/07/2022)

The project has developed a Decision Support Tool (DST) for calculating the impact of building renovations on energy efficiency. This site provides a brief description of how the DST can be used to support decision-making in a typical renovation process and will provide examples of a number of renovation cases.

19th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (12/07/2022)

SET 2022 is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed international conference on sustainable energy sources and technologies that provides a forum for the exchange of the latest technical information, the dissemination of high-quality research results, the presentation of the new developments in the area, and the debate and shaping of future directions and priorities for sustainable development and energy security.

Conference - International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-22 (12/07/2022)

SEB-22 invites participation and paper submissions across a broad range of sustainability and energy related topics relevant to the main theme of Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, such as "Intelligent buildings", "Sustainable buildings technologies" and "People in intelligent buildings and cities".

European Sustainable Energy Week: Going green and digital for Europe’s energy transition (12/07/2022)

Sessions organised by the European Commission and energy stakeholders will focus on sustainable energy issues, and debate new policy developments, best practices, and sustainable energy ideas.

13/06/2022

BUILD UP Newsletter

Topic of the Month: Industrialisation of building renovation of residential building stock (09/06/2022)

Every month BUILD UP highlights publications that are covering a specific topic. June’s Topic of the Month is ‘Industrialisation of building renovation of residential building stock’. The website is already available for contributions now and our editorial board is eager to receive your discussion papers, news, and articles. You can also be prepared for the next TOM: Energy Performance Certification and Energy Labelling.

REPowerEU: A plan to move away from Russian fossil fuels (09/06/2022)

The European Commission has presented the REPowerEU Plan to address the global energy market disruption caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The REPowerEU Plan features an array of measures, such as energy savings, diversification of energy supplies and the objective of doubling of the rate of deployment of heat pumps, installing 10 million new units in the next 5 years.

LIFE call 2022 open: New funding opportunities for the building sector (09/06/2022)

The European Commission has opened the LIFE Clean Energy Transition (CET) Call for Proposals 2022. In this new call, many new opportunities for funding are made available for the building sector and are therefore of interest for the BUILD UP community.

ENPOR Project fights energy poverty with a monitoring platform (09/06/2022)

Over the last 18 months, the ENPOR project has been monitoring energy poverty in the private-rented sector in Europe. This tool establishes an online space for sharing knowledge and energy efficiency practices at local, regional, national, and international levels. It provides novel methods to collect, calculate the impacts of, and represent data on policies for the Private Rented Sector (PRS).

EPREL Database helps consumers choose energy efficient appliances (09/06/2022)

The European Commission has launched the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL) database, a new EU-wide public platform enabling consumers to compare the energy efficiency class, and other data, about different household products. European consumers can use this free online tool to find the most energy efficient models of the appliance they wish.

Deadline extended: Apply for Act!onHeat Support Facility (09/06/2022)

The Call for Applicants for European-wide Support Facility has been extended until 15 June 2022. All local energy planners interested in strategic Heating and Cooling (H&C) planning are welcome to apply. Fill in the Expression of Interest form with some basic details and if the organisers see an initial match they will get back to you for the next application steps.

Renewable Heating for All – Civil Society Manifesto (09/06/2022)

As fossil gas prices have soared, energy poverty is now affecting millions of Europeans, who are in dire need of renewable and affordable energy. For that reason, six civil society organisations have launched a joint manifesto for the future of heating and cooling in Europe.

EU ’Save Energy’ plan for immediate energy savings (09/06/2022)

The European Commission has just published a new EU ‘Save Energy’ plan that takes a two-pronged approach to achieve immediate energy saving. The plan features voluntary choices to accelerate and strengthen structural, mid- to long-term energy efficiency measures.

La Borda – Co-operative Housing in Barcelona (09/06/2022)

La Borda Co-operative Housing wants to redefine the collective housing programme, by forming a sustainable building while having user participation at its core. The housing consists of 28 units (up to 40, 60 and 75 square meters) and several community spaces such as kitchen-dining room, laundry, multipurpose space, guestrooms, health space, storage, and exterior and semi-exterior spaces such as the patio, bike parking and terraces.

Single family House - Bern, Switzerland (09/06/2022)

The neo-baroque style house of the Hutterli Röthlisberger family from Bern, dated 1898, was extensively renovated and thermally refurbished between 2011 and 2015. The building underwent thermal improvement of the envelope, as well as interventions on the walls, roof and windows, and an installation of a photovoltaic system and a solar thermal system.

Expert Talks - Slavica Robić & Louise Sunderland (09/06/2022)

During this interview, both experts answer questions related with the reduction of energy consumption on households, such as the definition of "energy poverty", what is the general level of awareness of European households to effectively reduce energy consumption or what has been proposed by European institutions to reduce energy consumption in households.

Expert Talks - Monica Aguado, Director of the Grid Integration Department of CENER (09/06/2022)

In this expert talk, Dr. Aguado clarifies the relationship between smart grids and the European building stock. She explains the importance of increasing the number of grid-interactive buildings to achieve energy efficiency targets in a timely manner. During this interview, Dr. Aguado highlights the significance of the building occupant and how a grid-interactive building could fundamentally improve the management of energy consumption and lead to energy savings.

FULFILL project examines citizen engagement in decarbonising Europe (09/06/2022)

The FULFILL project will explore the contribution of lifestyle changes and citizen engagement in decarbonising Europe and fulfilling the goals of the Paris Agreement. Bringing together research institutes, academia, think-tanks and NGOs, the project will engage in a dialogue between social science and humanities as well as techno-economic energy and climate studies.

Setting the foundation for designing taller timber buildings (10/06/2022)

Only through interdisciplinary analysis and interaction can a set of holistic design guidelines be developed, ensuring safe construction of taller timber buildings, as well as respecting the demands of human wellbeing. This Action aims to achieve that through intense interdisciplinary work and interaction between different design backgrounds, as well as between academic and design professionals.

NRGcitizens project addresses decentralised energy transformation (10/06/2022)

The NRGcitizens project will explore the advantages and disadvantages of a decentralised energy transformation from a system perspective. It will also show how the organisational models could be designed, and identify the emerging business models in energy communities. The project will also examine the possible market designs for a 100% renewable energy transformation, integrating the heating and transportation sectors.

Webinar | Using digitalisation to overcome vocational exclusions for training (10/06/2022)

This webinar presented BIMcert and ARISE show toolkits that provide an agile work/learning marketplace, in which speed and agility are critical. The workforce needs to be provided with the tools to do their job in a continuous cycle of learning, commensurate with the demands of their daily workload.

Webinar | Using the Energy Efficiency Directive to alleviate energy poverty (10/06/2022)

The event, organised by IEECP, provided the opportunity to learn and exchange knowledge from the perspective of policy-making based on the ENSMOV project and to discuss the utility perspectives on energy poverty support based on learnings from the SocialWatt project.

Introduction to energy poverty and the EPAH (10/06/2022)

This introduction course is open to all stakeholders interested in addressing energy poverty. It provides an overview of energy poverty from a practical–political perspective. The course is open to all, with no prerequisites. The course will last approximately one hour and will feature six lessons divided into three modules.

STEP training materials on energy poverty (10/06/2022)

The STEP project has launched some training materials for workers wishing to advise people to get out of energy poverty, including: basic knowledge about the energy sector, how to identify consumers in energy poverty, energy efficiency tips for home dwellers or how energy contracts and consumer rights impact consumers in energy poverty.

Energy Poverty Advisory Hub Conference - Moving Towards Energy Autonomy: How to Guarantee Social Inclusion (10/06/2022)

During the conference, organisers will bring together local governments, EU representatives, policymakers, energy agencies, civil society organisations and all stakeholders active in energy poverty. The agenda will include a mix of keynote speeches, debates, interactive workshops and field visits.

|Conference| European Energy Efficiency Day (10/06/2022)

This conference will illustrate and discuss in practical terms how the EE1st principle can help get the most out of energy efficiency and other demand-side resources to achieve a sustainable and resilient energy system in the EU. Which became even more critical in the current energy crisis.

|Conference| Sustainable Places (SP2022) (10/06/2022)

SP2022 will be held over four days in a hybrid (digital + in-person) event format. Between opening and closing keynote sessions, parallel technical sessions and project-organised workshops will explore the various conference themes.

Build Up on Twitter (10/06/2022)

The @H2020Replace project brings us a #webinar about #Heating & #Cooling in the #ResidentialSector! / 31 May 10.00H / Join us to learn how the phase-out of fossil-based #heatingsystems can be brought forward in the EU agenda

Build Up on LinkedIn (10/06/2022)

Have you seen our latest #ExpertTalk? / Monica Aguado Alonso / Director of the Grid Integration Department of CENER (Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables (CENER) - National Renewable Energy Centre) / Dr. Aguado highlights the significance of the #buildingoccupant and how a grid-interactive #building could improve the management of #energyconsumption and lead to #energy savings / Want to know more? Check the video! / #energymanagement #renewableenergy

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