Educational Kit – Innovations for the real world

2 Feb 2020 - Almost 27 % of the total energy consumption in Europe is spent on residential buildings. The need to reduce the energy consumption of the building sector is widely recognized. It can be achieved through deep retrofitting of the building stock combined with a radical reduction of the needs of the new buildings.Download here the industrialised energy solutions in residential building retrofitting developed within BuildHeat.  

Fifth BUILDHEAT NEWSLETTER – February 2020 – Goodbye!

1 Feb 2020 - Welcome to the fifth and final edition of BuildHeat Newsletter!BuildHeat project is about to end after developing reliable, energy-efficient and affordable retrofit solutions for multifamily houses. In this last period, we have achieved several technical results relating to the integration of the heating and cooling solutions that we have developed, and we have also focused on the dissemination of our results.In particular, we have organized conferences, workshops, ... read more

BuildHeat @EUSEW 2019 – Scaling up deep energy retrofit markets towards 2030 targets

4 Dec 2019 - On 18 June, BuildHeat co-organised a Policy Conference at the European Sustainable Energy Week 2019 (EUSEW) to discuss about how to create synergies among the actors of the energy renovation value chain in order to reach the 2030 targets.The session brought together experiences from seven Horizon 2020 projects on energy renovation of the buildings sector and facilitated a discussion that enables the creation of synergies and possibilities to cooperate and share valuable ... read more

Taking complexity out of the building site

17 Jul 2019 - Researchers in Europe are developing a new kind of prefabricated energy efficient building façades, equipped with special insulation and solar panels. These solutions are built far from the construction site, in an industrial environment, and can therefore be installed quickly and painlessly for homeowners or tenantsTackling energy consumption in the building sector in Europe is a real necessity, and researchers in many countries are studying the development and dissemination of ... read more

Energy efficiency: adding architectural value to prefab solutions

4 Jul 2019 - Architects don’t usually like prefabricated solutions. But they concede there are upsides, and when time is of the essence, saving the planet becomes the priorityPractical or beautiful? The question doesn’t seem to be relevant when it comes to retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency. Prefabricated solutions are considered to be both efficient and aesthetically pleasing.However, architects don’t usually agree: to begin with, they feel prefabrication limits their ... read more