Retrofitting public buildings is crucial to meeting Europe's energy efficiency goals. But can new knowledge in retrofitting be replicated across the EU?
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 12, 2016
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Green buildings can both protect the environment and benefit the people using them. But to do so, users should be involved in the planning from the very beginning.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 11, 2016
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New near-zero energy buildings are increasingly springing up around Europe, though their impact on reducing the region's energy consumption will remain a drop in the ocean without a drive to apply new technologies to existing ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 4, 2015
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Big data may soon make buildings greener. With a recent major acquisition, MIT alumni-founded Retroficiency, which has assessed hundreds of thousands of buildings, is poised to bring its advanced energy analytics platform ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2015
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Buildings are responsible for 40% of our energy consumption. With this in mind the European research project DIRECTION aims to demonstrate that very low energy buildings can be implemented in practice.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 29, 2015
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Low-income families bear the brunt of high-energy costs and poor thermal comfort from poorly maintained apartment buildings. To study how energy efficiency upgrades could help these households, researchers at Columbia University's ...
Economics & Business
Jun 10, 2015
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British Columbia could significantly speed up progress on achieving energy-efficient buildings and homes by adopting the more stringent approaches used by the "green leader" states of California (CA) and Massachusetts (MA), ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 27, 2015
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In times of limited resources and continued evidence of significant climate change, sustainability is increasingly regarded as a topic of global importance. Consider areas such as design, energy, and materials: These core ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 8, 2015
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People do not seek urban regeneration. This is because they do not see it as a necessity.
Energy & Green Tech
May 5, 2015
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Windows that change their light permeability at the touch of a button, façades, whose color can be changed according to the sunlight, façades and window parts in which transparent photovoltaic modules are integrated or ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 22, 2014
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