Europe’s Buildings: Energy Performance Today and Tomorrow
As a part of the European Sustainable Energy week, April 13th the conference ‘Europe’s Buildings: Energy Performance Today and Tomorrow‘ takes place in Brussels. Here members of the European Commission’s Concerted Action will discuss with the European stakeholders the plans and challenges lying ahead as Europe moves towards a greater obtaining a greater stock ofContinue reading
World Renewable Energy Congress 2011- Sweden
The World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC) is an international scientific conference that provides an excellent opportunity for discussion and knowledge exchange for scientists, policy-makers, engineers and other specialists with an interest in issues related to renewable energy. WREC 2011 will take place in Linköping, Sweden during May 8-13, 2011. The Congress is hosted by LinköpingContinue reading
European Conference on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Architecture and Planning
The second edition of the European Conference on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Architecture and Planning deals with the issues of the urban regeneration under three perspectives: sustainable architecture and energy efficiency; sustainable city and social planning; sustainable urban economy. These three topics will be addressed in an integrated vision to find synergies by theContinue reading
4th Nordic Passive House Conference
PHN11 Helsinki conference is the 4th conference in the Nordic series of seminars on passive houses. The first conference was held in Trodheim (Norway) 2008, the second in Gothenburg (Sweden) 2009 and the third in Aalborg (Denmark) 2010. The themes for PHN11 are based on the conclusions from the Aalborg conference. 4th Nordic Passive HouseContinue reading
Cost Effective Energy Efficiency Villa Construction
The Institute for Building Efficiency has recently issued a brief called; European Union: Cost Effective Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Among other things, the brief addresses an interesting issue between the implementation of energy efficiency at micro and macro level. In the executive summery it says: “what is cost-optimal in terms of achieving energy and climateContinue reading
Air Powered Air-Con – How Cool is That?
Nothing seems more futile in terms of climate conservation than turning on a conventional air conditioning system. It’s too hot so you burn fossil fuels which make the world hotter, possibly forever, in order to make your little box cooler temporarily. It’s like turkeys voting for Christmas. Happily science has made a lot of progressContinue reading
