CERtuS Workshop in Athens – Save the date
The Greek team of CERtuS, Municipality of Alimos, ETVA VIPE and EUDITI-Energy & Environmental Design Ltd, is organizing a workshop on the “Financing schemes for nearly zero energy renovation of existing public buildings” to be held in Athens on 8 December 2016. The topics to be discussed include the [...]
EU Exchange activities and collaboration with Republic_ZEB project
On 28th September 2016 the coordinators of IEE projects CERtuS, Stella Styliani Fanou (ENEA), and Republic_ZEB, Giovanni Riva (CTI), met in Rome at the ENEA headquarters to trace the framework of the activities and to exchange impressions and present results. Both projects deal with the refurbishment of existing public [...]
New report analyses implementation of Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
The Concerted Action EPBD releases its 2016 report Implementing the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) – Featuring Country Reports. It analyses and compares implementation of the Directive across the 28 EU Member States and Norway. The report is built in two parts: part A describes the main accomplishments [...]
CERtuS in the fair of the Conservation, Technology and Promotion of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, Ferrara, Italy, 6 -8 April 2016
CERtuS participated in the 23rd Fair of the conservation, technology and promotion of cultural and environmental heritage, which was held from 6th to 8th April 2016 in the historical venue of “Restauro” in Ferrara. MiBACT – the Italian Ministry of Culture, Cultural Heritage and Tourism is a historical partner [...]
EPC+ project: energy services partnerships
The Energy Performance Contracting Plus (EPC+) project supports the creation of partnerships (clusters) of SMEs that offer innovative energy efficiency services (SPINs). Each SPIN provides standardized technology-specific energy services packages for Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) projects. In this mechanism the investments for energy efficiency measures are recovered with the [...]
“Common Efficacy” Project Proposal: Energy Efficiency in Historic Centres
Historic Centres are privileged locations of our cities, the living legacy of centuries of evolution and innovation. As Climate Change mitigation and energy security issues demand for Energy Efficiency, many ancient buildings are either excluded from the common effort, or pushed towards “deep renovation” goals they were never designed [...]