About the Plus Energy Building Hub
The Plus Energy Building Hub is a repository and community dedicated to advancing Plus Energy Buildings. It’s designed to show the latest advancements and solutions to empower architects, engineers, researchers and professionals who are shaping the future of Europe’s residential building stock. Plus Energy Buildings matter since they offer a solution by producing more energy than they consume while reducing emissions, increasing energy efficiency, and supporting renewable energy adoption.
The Plus Energy Building Hub features:
- Real world examples of Plus Energy Buildings with details on technology solutions, performance data, envelope innovations, and climate-adaptive designs.
- Cultural and climatic considerations on adapting Plus Energy Buildings to local contexts for maximum efficiency and user acceptance.
- Design guidelines with key principle to be kept in mind when designing a Plus Energy Building.
- Tips by designers for designers: practical advice to simplify the design a great and effective Plus Energy Buildings.
- A simple and interactive explanation of Plus Energy Building and a quiz, to inform non-specialists about their benefits and importance.
The Plus Energy Building Hub aspires to be more than a knowledge platform: it aims to build a community of professionals driving Europe’s decarbonization and a more sustainable built environment.
The Plus Energy Building Hub is a platform by Eurac Research, developed thanks to RMIT University, and powered by ACE.
The Plus Energy Building Hub has been developed in the framework of Cultural-E, H2020 project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N. 870072.
To discover more about the project, head over to Cultural-E .