The EC3 Industry Day will kick off the 2019 European Conference on Computing in Construction, taking place from 10 to 12 July in Crete, Greece. This event is the premier European Conference for information, communication...
Plant – 13 Annexe is a multiple use office and convention centre located in the Godrej campus at Vikhroli. Over the years, this building has demonstrated the highest standards of performance and has won many accolades including the ‘IGBC-...
IEA EBC Annex 71: Building energy performance assessment based on in-situ measurements
Despite regulation enforcements, monitoring of actual energy performances of buildings reveals in many cases a significant gap with...
This yearly publication presents the progress of a portfolio of 174 European research projects aiming at developing new technologies for energy efficient buildings. 110 projects have been co-funded within the EeB PPP under the 7th...
The Commission adopted today a draft mandate to engage -- on behalf of the European Union in the negotiations to modernise the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) -- a plurilateral trade and investment agreement applicable to the energy sector to...
BERTIM project achieves its end. Now, going beyond the last month of project duration, some of very tangible BERTIM results are presented. In this final project newsletter, some photos taken during BERTIM modules installation in Charite...
When it comes to building sustainable buildings, humans have a lot to learn from termites.
A recent study that colleagues and I published in Science Advances explains how some African termites maintain cool and stable temperatures in...
Mayors and leaders of 210 cities across Europe, representing 62 million citizens have today urged the European Council and Member States to step up the EU’s climate commitments, to show global leadership and drive ambition to make rapid...
Simone Lowthe-Thomas is Chief Executive Officer of Severn Wye Energy Agency (UK) and FEDARENE Vice-President for Energy Efficiency (Buildings & Behavior).
With over 25 years’ experience working in the fields of Renewable Energy and...
The politics of climate change in Australia has always been about the costs of change. It’s often debated in terms of we can’t afford or can afford to pay for the changes needed to our power, transport and building systems. However, the...
The Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative (EMIRI) organised a “TECH TALK” event on March 7, 2019 in Brussels.
Phillipe Jacques, EMIRI Managing Director, launched the workshop by presenting the objectives of the association. He...
We spend 90% of our time indoors and it's estimated that 92% of the air in the places we live is unsafe to breathe. That’s why 30 GBCs as part of our Better Places for People global project are working to combat global air pollution from...
The 4th call for proposals of Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE is devoted to the exploitation of outputs and results being delivered by projects funded by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme within the first two calls. This call is restricted to...
To support the professional execution of nearly zero-energy buildings new pilot “Train the Trainer” courses are being implemented in Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands and Slovakia.
The nearly zero-energy building...
The H2020 ExcEED project takes the pulse of the actual energy consumed by last generation of buildings.
The project answers the need for transparency and comparability of energy performance calculations. The scope of ExcEED is to create...
Too often it takes a crisis to trigger changes in legislation and behaviour, when forward thinking, cooperation and future planning could have negated the risk in the first place. Australia’s building and construction industry is under the...
Indonesia plans to relocate its capital from the sprawling city of Jakarta – and it isn’t the only country with plans to build whole new cities.
AsiaTravel/Shutterstock Wendy Steele, RMIT University The announcement that President Joko...
Linked to GlobalABC Work Area 3 – Market Transformation.
Speakers:
- Cristina Gamboa, CEO, World Green Building Council
- Luca De Giovanetti, Manager, Science-based Targets, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
-...
The European Commission has launched the first Horizon Impact Award. This prize acknowledges and rewards the most influential and impactful projects under Horizon 2020 or FP7. Can you demonstrate that you have valorized your results and...
The Policy Conference of EUSEW 2019 will take place in Brussels between 18 and 20 June and is free of charge for all participants.
The conference will be hosted at three venues: the European Commission's Charlemagne and Berlaymont...