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Building digitalization and the EPBD directive: R2M Solution’s key role in the transition
Building digitalization is essential for meeting EPBD 4 goals. Andrea Costa of R2M Solution shares how AI and digital twins are driving the energy transition.
Alessia Bardi•25 March 2025

Constructions
Injecting Steam and CO2 Makes 3D-Printed…
The innovative process developed by NTU Singapore injects a stream of steam…
Editorial Team•20 December 2024

Constructions
Here is the photovoltaic thermal window…
A new hybrid solar system designed to be directly integrated into windows…
Editorial Team•11 December 2024

Tech innovations and Startups
Natural fireproof coatings in construction, what if we used fungi?
The natural world helps us protect ourselves from fires (sustainabilityenvironment.com) - Fungi could inaugurate a new…
20 July 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Off-grid homes: in Canada a community of 67 villas “detached from the…
Off-grid homes are not connected to energy and water infrastructure, capable of producing clean energy for…
17 July 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
From the Fraunhofer comes the aerogel that costs 70% less with greater…
By modifying the aerogel production recipe, the Fraunhofer UMSICHT team obtained a half-thin, affordable building insulation…
23 June 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Smart heating thin as a sheet that turns walls into radiators
Despite a thickness of less than 0.1mm, the system developed by the Warming Surfaces Company is…
14 June 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Green building carbon neutral, when sugar cane replaces cement and brick
By combining sugar cane bagasse with a mineral binder, the University of East London and Grimshaw…
12 May 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Glass blocks to insulate the building thanks to aerogel insulation
Save on heating and light thanks to translucent glass blocks filled with insulating aerogel. The evolution…
21 April 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Cellulose aerogel to increase thermal insulation of windows
A team of physicists from the University of Colorado demonstrated how aerogels made from cellulose nanofibers…
21 March 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Fraunhofer reinvents thermal insulation with “sponge walls” and transparent laminated roofs
A glass foil cover that reduces the weight by 75% and a vertical water treatment system…
9 March 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Virtu, the hybrid solar panel for buildings that makes its way to…
The solar thermal-photovoltaic collector of the British Naked Energy expands its market through new agreements.
18 February 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Perovskite thermochromic windows: the promising solution to save energy in buildings
The researchers of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the Doe have tried to insert a…
16 February 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Save energy at home by recreating extreme climate effects in the laboratory
Two typical dwellings, built inside a maxi laboratory in which it is possible to test extreme…
7 February 2023

Tech innovations and Startups
Thermal insulation: smart material which changes color under an external electrical stimulus
The chameleon-like building material produced by the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) changes its external…