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.

 

 

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
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