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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology was developed to evaluate the environmental impact of buildings relating to processes, materials and energy use throughout a whole life cycle.

Photovoltaics is an ideal technology to support the transition to sustainable energy. In the coming years, Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) is expected to gain popularity and become a common solution for both roof and façade integration.

Every month, BUILD UP highlights publications covering a specific topic. December’s Topic of the Month is: ‘Renovation of existing buildings’. The website is already available for contributions and BUILD UP’s editorial board is eager to receive your discussion papers, news and articles.

Every year, Klimahouse inspires 36 000 visitors from all over Europe. Klimahouse features 450 exhibitors from the construction sector and an event programme with more than 150 events over the four days it is held. Klimahouse promotes innovation and new ideas, giving ample space to fledging start-ups and young companies.

Energy efficiency has tremendous potential to boost economic growth and avoid greenhouse gas emissions, but the global rate of progress is slowing – a trend that has major implications for consumers, businesses and the environment, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.

Read the interview with Ian Hamilton, associate professor at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London, UK. His research is focused on the nexus between energy supply-demand in buildings, indoor and urban environmental conditions, and health and climate change.

The EU Horizon 2020 project CoNZEBs has completed a follow-up activity to the identification of potential technical solution sets that could reduce investment costs for NZEBs. The scientific partners carried out life-cycle cost (LCC) and life-cycle environmental impact analyses (LCA) of the identified technical solution sets to reach NZEB and beyond NZEB levels for new multi-family buildings in four European countries (Denmark, Germany, Slovenia and Italy).

This edition of SETIS magazine takes a closer look at the current status of EU building stock and its future evolution. It discusses the energy transformation of Europe’s buildings, along with the challenges and policy actions ahead. SETIS brings together experts from the research and policy communities to discuss the most relevant and pressing issues on energy efficiency in buildings today.

This detached house represents the designer’s ambition to make this type of housing accessible to all and thus drastically reduce pollution from buildings. The house is 100 % autonomous thanks to its field of 96 m² bifacial photovoltaic panels (sized for two buildings) and its battery park.

The building consists of 29 residential units, of which 9 apartments and around 760 m² of living space are attributable to the newly developed two-storey attic floor. The converted ground floor has around 270 m² of commercially used local space as well as a garage with 7 parking spaces and an e-charging station.

The CINDERELA project aims to develop a new Circular Economy Business Model (CEBM) for use of secondary raw materials in urban areas, connecting different industries, the construction sector and municipal services, decision makers and the general public with the support of CinderOSS, a “One-Stop-Shop” service.

FinEERGo-Dom is an ambitious four-year project led by a consortium of experienced partners from seven countries. Building on the experience of the Latvian Energy Efficiency Facility (LABEEF), the financial scheme was implemented successfully in Latvia. The FinEERGo-Dom team will refine and implement guaranteed financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy building renovations across the seven countries.

CA EPBD has been collecting a wealth of information useful to EPBD national policy experts and other stakeholders. The most recent key public outputs of the CA EPBD are now gathered in the present database of publications, which will be regularly updated to reflect further developments. The contents of this database are structured around categories defined by countries/regions and themes.

RenoHUb aims to trigger a significant rise in energy retrofits to Hungarian homes through the development of an integrated business model that is sustainable and cost-covering after the end of the project. RenoHUb intends to enable households to take the first step towards becoming prosumers, and map and remove all the non-financial barriers that cause setbacks in the process.

The CRAVEzero Pinboard is a structured framework organising the information and tools needed to build reliable low-cost life-cycle nZEBs. In the webinar the main components are shown and explained to enable participants to efficiently use the Pinboard for their own work.

This webinar is the third in a series on the topic of digitalisation and energy efficiency. The webinar was presented by the Electronic Devices and Networks Annex (EDNA) of the IEA’s Technology Collaboration Programme on Energy Efficient End-Use Equipment (4E), and covered the role of connected devices in intelligent efficiency.

This calculator enables you to explore in greater detail the impacts of the various scenarios described in the study Scenarios for Low Carbon Belgium by 2050. You can use it to construct your own emission reduction pathway by activating the main reduction levers as you see fit, and by choosing the main parameters determining these pathways.

The BEMServer is a platform dedicated to energy performance: it consists in an open source solution to deploy a modular, scalable and secure Building Energy Management System. BEMServer was created to ease the deployment of these services, and to allow building managers to install applications that answer to their specific needs, instead of being confined to a monolithic, rigid solution.

The Commission proposes to establish a research and innovation partnership on ‘People-centric Sustainable Built Environment’ (#Build4People), to be implemented under the Horizon Europe programme (2021-2027).

The 2020 9th International Conference on Clean and Green Energy (ICCGE 2020) is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in clean and green energy. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the sector from around the world.

The clean energy transition is taking on a new dynamic in Europe and worldwide. This requires strong policies, competitive businesses, technology innovation, investments and the involvement of the citizens. By addressing these topics and more, the annual World Sustainable Energy Days attracts over 660 participants from over 50 countries each year.

The 3rd edition of this unique community-building and networking event on energy efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe – The Central & Eastern European Energy Efficiency Forum (C4E Forum) – will take place between 3-6 June 2020, in one of the most beautiful and peaceful mountain resorts in Romania, called Poiana Brasov.