December 2021

Recent reports (D3.1, D3.2 & D3.3) prepared by our colleagues from POLIMI explore concepts and definitions about energy flexibility and comfort indicators in buildings – paying close attention to what is relevant when designing bioclimatic projects: Report D3.1 presents a critical review of the energy performance indicators available in the literature and international standards, in […]

We are sharing now a new version of the report that divusses policy landscape in the EU and Africa concerning the energy efficiency in buildings and how to tackle thermal comfort in warm climate zones. Download here The recently released report D2.4 aims to assess some successful or promising policies which might be effective in

ABC 21 has just published two reports (D2.3 & D3.7) that investigate the supply chain and technical characteristics of local construction materials, mostly bio-geo based and low energy embedded. The study shows that they are not only good options for decarbonising the building sector, but also present good thermal performances The report D2.3 investigates the

We published a NEW VERSION of (D2.2), which intends to shed light on the current regulatory infrastructure on energy efficiency in buildings in the EU, North and West Africa regions  The survey included  European and African countries:  Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Austria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Ghana, Togo, Senegal, and Nigeria. The goal

ABC 21 has recently released a report (D2.1) analysing the housing needs, urbanisation trends and construction practices in most African and European countries. In Africa & Europe, though with quite different economic and social background conditions, the demand for housing remains high while the supply remains limited in quantity and often inadequate in quality. Large parts