Net Zero Energy Buildings
Moving Past Net Zero Buildings to Whole Life Carbon through Embodied Energy
March 3rd, 2020Towards Net-Zero Buildings – Legislation for a Sustainable Energy Future
November 12th, 2019
We Need Carbon Neutral Buildings Where it Matters – The Retrofit Market
Buildings are arguably the biggest contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for about 40% of total energy consumption and 39% of all carbon dioxide emissions. While energy efficiency and smart building movements have reduced building energy consumption per square foot in recent years, the 3% annual increase in the sheer number of square feet […]
Shell Announces Smart Building Partnerships with Sparkfund & GridPoint
“The Paris Agreement has sent a signal around the world. A new energy system is emerging. It will unfold over decades, moving at different paces in different places. The transition offers challenges, opportunities and tough choices for governments, businesses and customers,” states the Shell Energy Transition Report. Royal Dutch Shell, the British-Dutch oil and gas […]
ACEEE Report Highlights Pathways to Zero Energy Buildings through Building Codes
“Climate change is running faster than we are — and we are running out of time.” That is the stark conclusion of the long-awaited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on global warming. “Pledges from the world’s governments to reduce greenhouse gases, made in Paris in 2015, aren’t enough to keep global warming […]
New Energy Performance Directive Aims to make EU’s Building Stock “Nearly Zero Emissions” by 2050
A new year, a new energy directive for buildings. Over the festive period a political agreement on new rules for improving the energy performance of buildings was reached between negotiators from the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. The new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) aims to renovate Europe’s entire building stock by […]
ZEN; the Zero Energy Nanotechnology Building
Amongst the many buildings of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York, something a bit different stands. Within the buildings of Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) exists what might be the world’s most advanced university research enterprise in existence today. With 300 industrial partners, 4,000 scientists, engineers, students and faculty, and over […]
The Triple Bottom Line Of Sustainable Building
“Although they are not taking it for granted, forward-thinking developers, owners, and tenants have started treating sustainability as a given — they simply assume that maximizing sustainability is part of their brief,” states a new report from Philips on “living” smart buildings. The report considers the development of attitudes towards sustainable building. Namely how the […]
What The “Net Zero” In Net Zero Energy Buildings Actually Means
Buildings account for around 40% of total energy consumption, and consequently around 40% of carbon emissions. So as we strive to reduce our carbon emissions you would expect ‘net zero energy buildings’ (Net ZEB) to offer a significant step in reaching our objectives. Unfortunately, things are not as simple as that. Net ZEBs alone do […]
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