The City of Vienna is betting on innovation and end-user engagement to achieve its transformation into a Smart City. Currently, the city is involved in two European Smart City initiatives, namely EU-GUGLE and Smarter Together, and is implementing in that framework significant investment projects in view of refurbishing the city’s building stock to increase their […]
In Tampere, the inhabitants of the Tammela district are very proud of their newly renovated and highly energy performant buildings. On 25 April 2018, the city of Tampere invited partners from the STARDUST and EU-GUGLE Smart City Initiatives to take part in a study tour to visit five of the eight buildings that have been […]
Today, buildings represent around 36% of all CO2 emissions in Europe. To help decarbonising this sector, the Council of the European Union adopted new energy efficiency rules for buildings on 14 May, in view of meeting nearly zero energy standards by 2050 and reduce European greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95% compared to 1990. Promoting cost-efficient […]
At the occasion of their next meeting to be held in Tampere on 25 and 26 April, partners from the EU-GUGLE Smart City Initiative will discover the outstanding results of the deep renovation projects carried out in the Finnish pilot city. In the eight demonstration buildings involved in the project, energy consumption has already decreased […]
How to ensure the effectiveness of energy efficient renovation projects in the long run? In the framework of the EU-GUGLE Smart City Initiative, the six pilot cities have bet on tenant engagement to maximise energy savings in their freshly renovated buildings. Currently, one of the main risks limiting the impact of energy efficiency renovation measures […]
At Politecnico di Milano, a conference with focus on the role of the bicycle in the cities of tomorrow, took place on the 25th of January. The EU-GUGLE project was cited in particular regarding the foreseen integration of cycle paths in the pilot district. Besides the seminars, audience could try out folding bikes and take part of a poster […]
Tampereen kaupungin ja VTT:n EU-GUGLE -projektin demonstraatiokohde As Oy Pohjolankatu 18-20 sai Lähienergialiiton järjestämässä Vuoden lähienergiaratkaisu kilpailussa kunniamaininnan kaksisuuntaisesta kaukolämpöratkaisusta. Projektissa 8 kerrostaloa Tammelan kaupunginosassa sai EU:lta tukea yhteensä 1,4 milj. € rohkeisiin ja innovatiivisiin energiaremontteihin, joiden tuloksia seurataan mielenkiinnolla Euroopan laajuisesti. Pohjolankatu 18-20 on EU-GUGLE projektin alusta lähtien 2013 ollut rohkeasti edelläkävijänä kokeilemassa erilaisia […]
As the EU-GUGLE projects’ Technical Committee held a meeting in Gothenburg in the end of October, the committee visited the housing area Hammarkullen to learn more about the local work. Wenche Lerme, Development manager for Urban Planning in the Angered district, City of Gothenburg and Rafael Lavicki, from Bostadsbolaget, one of Sweden’s biggest public benefit […]
EU-GUGLE was featured in the Milanese edition of la Repubblica, one the main national daily newspapers in Italy with more than 300.000 copies sold each day. In the article published on 21 October 2017, the author goes back to the city’s strategy towards greater sustainability and describes how EU funding is helping Milan achieve its […]
Europe badly needs to make its buildings more energy efficient: but what if an easy solution would already exist? For over a century, heat pumps hidden in basements, on roofs and in machine rooms, have been saving million tonnes of greenhouse gases emissions each year. Multiple uses of heat pumps Their operating principle is simple: […]
