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BUILD UP Skills Pillar II Final Evaluation report

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As part of the contract EASME/H2020/EE/2015/008 to ‘Support for BUILD UP Skills EU exchanges and analysis on construction skills’ for the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), Trinomics, with the support of Visionary Analytics, has assessed BUILD UP Skills Pillar II. The full report is now available.

 

The assessment has been done against six evaluation criteria: Relevance, EU added value, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Coherence and Sustainability.


The BUILD UP Skills Pillar II Final Evaluation report published!

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As part of the contract EASME/H2020/EE/2015/008 to ‘Support for BUILD UP Skills EU exchanges and analysis on construction skills’ for the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), Trinomics, with the support of Visionary Analytics, has assessed BUILD UP Skills Pillar II.

The full report is now available. The assessment has been done against six evaluation criteria: Relevance, EU added value, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Coherence and Sustainability.

BuildHeat entering in its demonstration phase

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BuildHeat is quickly leaving its research phase by moving towards the validation and the demonstration phase of the solution packages developed for the three project demo sites.

 

This step was marked in Madrid at the end of February 2018. The innovation partners of the project gathered for a two days’ progress meeting at Acciona premises where they had series of plenary discussions and reporting sessions regarding its project achievements.

 

New deadline: you have until June 17 to register for the Green Solutions Awards 2018!

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Construction21, organiser of the international competition Green Solutions Awards, grants one extra week to enter. Applications close on Sunday, June 17th, at midnight, to publish your buildings, districts or infrastructures in the category of your choice.

Finish before June 17

Life Reusing Posidonia in Formentera

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"The Green Solutions Awards recognition for the work done is essential to maintain technical and political support for sustainable construction" says the architect Carles Oliver Barceló

Orienting Northern Irelands’ Businesses towards the use of Sustainable Energy

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A seminar for businesses in Northern Ireland on clean energy was held in the city of Derry

 

Switzerland’s building stock analysis: The Building Market Briefs

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The Building Market Reports collect and generate insights on the building sector to foster low-carbon investment and scaling by generating an in-depth market study through reports. In 50 pages the reports profile a single country-building sector.

The content is methodologically aligned, enabling comparison between markets and includes:

Rebuild Expo

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REBUILD provides a unique platform of innovation to invigorate the sector of construction, renovation and the energy efficiency of houses and buildings. It is a place where the professional of the sector is provided with a specialized environment where to find the latest products, materials, solutions, and services.

REBUILD is the platform for manufacturers and distributors to identify:


Forum Wood Building Nordic 2018 - towards a new renaissance!

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Linnaeus University in Sweden will host the seventh Forum Wood Building Nordic on September 27–28, 2018 in Växjö. The conference is an opportunity for academics and practitioners to meet and exchange experiences and to learn from the best within the field.

ICSDCE 2018 : 20th International Conference on Sustainable Design and Construction Engineering

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The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations.

Building green, Copenhagen 2018

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Building Green is a growing event in Scandinavia with a mission to highlight the importance of sustainable building and thinking. Building Green was established in 2011 in Copenhagen and has developed into a unique platform for information, inspiration and ideas on the sustainable building industry. We need to translate sustainable visions into reality everywhere and Building Green allows you to explore these issues with the best actors in the field of sustainable building.

5. Fachsymposium Brennpunkt Alpines Bauen - Lowtech

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The 5. Fachsymposium Brennpunkt Alpines Bauen is dedicated to the topic low tech. Highly efficient buildings are possible by simple, but durable, sustainable and locally available building components to satisfy the needs of users. The day after the symposium there will be a guided tour to Salzburg to visit completed projects.

For more info and registration please visit the website https://www.itg-salzburg.at/veranstaltung/brennpunkt-alpines-bauen-351.

The Center for Resilience: promoting resilient buildings and communities

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U.S. Green Building Council is working to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built, and operated to encourage green building practices—and resilience is a clear extension of this work.

The Center for Resilience is a USGBC initiative housing all of the organization’s resilience activities, resources and tools: addressing and emphasizing resilience through green building and infrastructure certifications can help ensure a more resilient future for all.

Energy Performance Contract EPC for energy refurbishment in industrial processes and buildings

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Energy Performance Contract EPC for energy refurbishment in industrial processes and buildings
Conferenza “Contratti EPC per la riqualificazione energetica di edifici e processi industriali”

Drivers of recent energy consumption trends across sectors in EU28

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This Report was commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate General for Energy, Energy Efficiency Unit, to provide an overview of the drivers of recent trends in final energy consumption and a first indication of the short-term future trends and efforts needed to reach the EU 2020 targets.


2030 palette: a free online database for sustainable buildings and cities

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The 2030 Palette is a free online platform that puts the principles and actions behind Zero Net Carbon and resilient built environments at the fingertips of designers, planners, and builders worldwide. The swatches, or sustainable design strategies, address energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission at all scales – from regional planning to building details.

The platform gathers tools, best cases, guides and a wide database of materials characteristics for sustainable and efficient buildings.

CraftEdu: A Horizon 2020 project setting up national qualification and training schemes for craftsmen in the Czech Republic and developing the further offer of training courses in Slovakia, Austria and Bulgaria

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Project concept

CraftEdu develops innovative qualification and training schemes for craftsmen and on-site workers in the field of energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources in buildings. It creates learning materials and paves the way for sustainable offering of educational courses on nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB), targeting the establishing of a solid based for the practical implementation of the upcoming ambitious new building standards.

 

Innovative Heating & Cooling systemic packages and financial mechanisms for deep retrofitting of residential buildings in Europe

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In the framework of the World Cities Day 2018, BuildHeat in collaboration with other 3 EU-funded like-minded projects invites you to discover innovative approaches, lessons learnt and results achieved in the retrofitting of multifamily houses at EU level.

 

Recycled construction waste: building a more sustainable future

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The European construction industry is working towards producing high-quality materials from recycled waste, enhancing the sector’s sustainability and reducing its environmental impact

 

In the southern Belgian province of Namur, concrete and bricks from demolished buildings are being turned into eco-friendly road surfaces.

 

Deep Retrofit Training Programmes by Fit-to-NZEB Ready to Enter the Vocational Education and Training Practice in Europe

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The new training programmes on deep energy retrofit developed by the Horizon 2020 project Fit-to-NZEB are uploaded and ready for use by any interested training institution.

 

This is the major outcome of the first year of the promising EU-financed project demonstration ambition to change the landscape in the vocational training and educational system as related to energy efficiency in the building sector in 7 focus countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Romania, and even beyond.

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