MEPs TANJA Fajon (Slovenia) and Sirpa Pietikäinen from Finland have joined forces with Fire Safe Europe in calling upon the European Union and national policymakers to integrate fire resilience within the EU Green Deal’s initiatives on buildings. This is an article on the Fire Safety Matters website. MEPs support inclusion of fire resilience within … Continue reading Fire safety should be integrated into Europe’s buildings energy policies
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New report from JRC: Enabling Positive Energy Districts across Europe: energy efficiency couples renewable energy
From an energy perspective, zero or positive energy districts (PED) provide opportunities to achieve cost-effective levels of high-energy efficiency and renewable energy systems. This newly published report by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) aims to understand how to handle energy performance targets by moving beyond individual buildings towards a district level. This is a … Continue reading New report from JRC: Enabling Positive Energy Districts across Europe: energy efficiency couples renewable energy
New JRC report: Untapping multiple benefits: hidden values in environmental and building policies
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has recently published an important new research study on how we can untap the multi benefits from improved energy efficiency in our buildings policies. The untapped / hidden benefits of environmental policies are huge. This piece of research showcases and places a monetary value on the added benefits … Continue reading New JRC report: Untapping multiple benefits: hidden values in environmental and building policies
New report from BPIE on progress by EU member states to provide their renovation strategies
A new report from the Buildings Performance Institute Europe assesses the compliance of the 14 available long-term renovation strategies (as published on the website of the European Commission on 8 September 2020) against the provisions in Article 2a of the amended 2018 Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). EiD earlier this summer wrote about the … Continue reading New report from BPIE on progress by EU member states to provide their renovation strategies
New report’s findings support argument that green assets have a lower risk than non-green assets
Elena Johansson writes on the Expert Investor Europe website about a report from an EU-funded project found a significant negative correlation between buildings’ energy efficiency and the probability of mortgage defaults and supports the argument that green assets have a lower risk than non-green assets. Evidence fuels argument to create ‘green supporting factor’ A … Continue reading New report’s findings support argument that green assets have a lower risk than non-green assets
Blog from Anders Wijkman: Home retrofitting in the EU: An opportunity to build back better in a post COVID-19 world
The built environment, which includes our homes, workplaces, schools, hospitals, libraries, and other public buildings, is - as we know - the single largest energy consumer in the EU. It is responsible for an estimated 40 per cent of the EU’s total energy consumption and 36 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. 75 per cent … Continue reading Blog from Anders Wijkman: Home retrofitting in the EU: An opportunity to build back better in a post COVID-19 world
Report provides quantitative and qualitative information of Covid-19 impact on energy efficiency in commercial buildings
The scientect website describes information on a new report by Researchmoz that discusses the full range of issues that will affect the deployment of energy efficiency measures commercial buildings between now and 2027. It is important to see that there is serious analysis that sees Covid-19 having long-term impacts on how we address improving the … Continue reading Report provides quantitative and qualitative information of Covid-19 impact on energy efficiency in commercial buildings
With heatwaves growing, UK advised that it must do more to protect infrastructure
Much of the UK’s infrastructure dates from the Victorian age, when the climate was less prone to such high temperatures and the risk of flash flooding. Since the privatisation of utilities in the 1980s and 1990s, the emphasis has been on keeping down costs to billpayers, rather than investing in better infrastructure. Now Britain’s buildings … Continue reading With heatwaves growing, UK advised that it must do more to protect infrastructure
Our cities need deep energy retrofits
Sandy Tung, Programme Manager for Sharing Cities writes on the Cities Today website about the importance of deep energy retrofits. Deep energy retrofits: Enhancing energy efficiency in the built environment Cities play a crucial role in shaping the climate agenda, accounting for about 65 percent of global energy demand and 70 percent of energy-related … Continue reading Our cities need deep energy retrofits
Property owners should be incentivised to upgrade draughty buildings, not just knock them down
Roger Harrabin writes on the BBC website about a dilemma for the buildings renovation sector. Is it better to demolish old buildings and build to latest standards or is it better to renovate. One can imagine the views of the Renovate Europe campaign. What are yours? Don't demolish old buildings, urge architects Footage of … Continue reading Property owners should be incentivised to upgrade draughty buildings, not just knock them down
Energy in Demand - Sustainable Energy - Rod Janssen 