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0-impact built environment

COP21 survey for Sustainable Built environments

iiSBE , the international initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment, has developed a survey to solicit views from our key members and contacts on the possible measures to reduce the impact of the built environment on climate change. Its contributed in several ways to the COP21 meetings in Paris. iiSBE is the only independent organization…
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14 level wooden apartment building

Its nearly finished: the worlds highest full wooden apartment building in Bergen Norway.  Is the next level in a race to construct higher and higher in wood. Not that high is always the best solution, but it shows the growing knowledge  and drive to construct with renewable and biobased materials. The engineering company involved, Sweco,…
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Presenting mass scale renovation for ZEB in Ireland

Just recently I was invited to speak at the Northern Passive house conference in Ireland, which took place in Enniskillen.  I was presenting about the future of the building sector and especially the housing construction sector, with a focus on mass renovation for ZEB with prefab elements. The presentation of that day are online, unfortunately…
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does DOE-ZEB definition makes sense?

US-DOE just released a document called: A Common Definition for Zero Energy Buildings”The question is, is it useful? The actual definition for a ZEB building proposed in the document, besides many explanations and other scale level definitions, is: a ZEB building is an energy-efficient building where, on a source energy basis, the actual annual delivered…
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“Transition Zero” SBE16conference

Large-scale NET-Zero Refurbishment , or : Mass renovation of the building stock for 0-energy performance, is the focus of the International conference in Utrecht from 6-8 April 2016. The conference, entitled Transition Zero is organised as a joint initiative of 6 Universities/Professors of applied science in the Netherlands, and Hosted by Utrecht University of applied…
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