20 DEC 2021 Interview: Renovating Historic Buildings Towards Zero Energy In November, the IEA SHC Programme finalized its work on Renovating Historic Buildings Towards Zero Energy (SHC Task 59/EBC Annex 76). To learn first-hand about... read more
05 DEC 2021 New tool provides over 150 solutions for historic building retrofits A new web application named HiBERtool helps practitioners find the perfect solution for the conservation of historic buildings. read more
05 MAY 2021 SBE21 conference spotlights historic NZEBs The SBE21 Heritage conference in mid-April involved a deep exchange of ideas between researchers, architects and practitioners about how to reduce the... read more
13 APR 2021 On-Site Registration available for SBE21 From the 14th to the 16th of April 2021, it will be possible to register “on-site”. The “on-site” day-by-day registration... read more
25 FEB 2021 SBE keynote speakers announced Get inspired by SBE21 Heritage Keynote Speakers Dr. Ege Yildirim and Prof. Harald Garrecht. read more
19 JUN 2020 SBE Heritage conference calls for papers The SBE conference’s 2021 edition will be held under the title SBE Heritage in Bolzano, Italy, between 14 and 16 April 2021. read more
19 MAY 2020 Call for Proposals: SBE21 Heritage The conference will be dedicated to the sustainable improvement of the built heritage, a research area that has grown significantly over the last 10 years... read more
02 MAR 2020 How to reduce energy consumption in historic buildings? Historic buildings make up 30 % of the European building stock and account for more than a third of the total energy consumption in the residential sector... read more
27 NOV 2019 Touring exhibition shows retrofits in 11 historic buildings In October, Vienna became the first venue for the new touring exhibition Historic Buildings Energy Retrofit Atlas. At the European Congress on the Use,... read more
14 AUG 2019 Publication: Impact of climate change on indoor environment of historic libraries in Mediterranean climate zone NZEB Project Partners at the Izmir Institute of Technology have recently had an article published in the International Journal of Global Warming. It describes... read more
09 AUG 2019 Appropriate refurbishment of traditional buildings Historic Environment Scotland have agreed a partnership with the UK Government’s Energy Saving Trust (EST) in Edinburgh to assist in the dissemination... read more
09 AUG 2019 Collaboration on advising landowners and farms on energy efficient upgrades to traditional rural cottages in Scotland Historic Environment Scotland are working with Scottish Land and Estates (SLE) to advise landowners and farms on how to upgrade traditional rural cottages... read more
12 JUL 2019 Reducing energy consumption in historic buildings A meeting in mid-April, Copenhagen, Denmark, gave members of IEA SHC research platform Renovating Historic Buildings Towards Zero Energy (Task 59) the... read more
01 JUL 2019 Konferenz: Die Sonnenhülle zwischen Veränderung und Koexistenz im Gleichgewicht der Orte With the support of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) / Bundesam fuer Energie (BFE) and EnergieSchweiz, as well as cooperation with the magazine... read more
20 DEC 2018 IEA SHC supports historic buildings expert network The 3rd International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings (EEHB 2018), which took place in Sweden in September, proved to be the perfect... read more
12 OCT 2018 Future Meetings & Events Check here for a list of upcoming Task Meetings & Other events yet to be scheduled. read more
08 SEP 2018 Producing hot water underneath natural slates A state-of-the-art solar thermal system has been installed under the slate roof of a castle in Ghent, Belgium. Roll-bonded Thermoslate absorbers measuring... read more
25 AUG 2018 New standard to improve energy performance of historic buildings Maintaining the exterior of a historic building while raising energy efficiency is not necessarily a contradiction. The new EN 16883:2017 standard, Conservation... read more
09 APR 2018 How to Turn Historic Structures into Nearly Zero Energy Buildings More than one-fourth of all residential buildings in Europe date from before 1945. Over the past decade, preservationists have taken to the idea of renovating... read more