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Remarkable award for a housing company in Tampere, Finland

Jenny Lööf — Thu, 16 May 2019 07:31:21 +0000

Tampere’s EU-GUGLE BEST 7 was awarded with the Heat Pump City of the Year award by European Heat Pump Association EHPA. The award was appointed to the limited housing company Pohjolankatu 18-20 and Enermix Ltd., which acts as a building’s energy monitoring service company. The housing company building is utilizing several different innovative energy […]

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Interviews with residents in Tampere after refurbishments

Jenny Lööf — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:18:32 +0000

The impact is energy effiency, of course, and up to 50% energy savings, but also very positive improvement to people’s every day life. When asked about their perspectives about the refurbishment processes, and the results, residents from the newly refurbished buildings in Tampere ware realistic but in general positive. In this video (interview in Finnish, […]

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Milan: adding great technology innovations

Jenny Lööf — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 07:49:47 +0000

Works on public housing buildings in via San Bernardo 29/a and 48-50, which began in July 2018, are now focusing on the implementation of energy efficiency measures. The buildings, located in Chiaravalle area, in the Southern part of the city, will be retrofitted towards the nearly-zero energy standard and high quality indoor comfort conditions for […]

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EU-GUGLE success stories were showcased in Energia 2018 exhibition in Tampere, Finland

Jenny Lööf — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:43:55 +0000

Energia 2018 exhibition gathered the energy field’s experts and operators and the most current topics of energy production, transmission, distribution and storing to Tampere on 23-25 October. EU-GUGLE pilots were showcased in many ways during the three day event by project staff and also by companies that have installed their systems to BEST buildings. EU-GUGLE […]

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SAVE THE DATE: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING

Jenny Lööf — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:32:45 +0000

The EU-GUGLE project will hold its final conference on sustainable urban planning solutions in Madrid on 11 December 2018. Building on the experiences of pioneer cities involved in large scale energy efficiency projects, the conference will bring together urban planners, local policy makers, researchers, entrepreneurs and energy efficiency experts to discuss effective approaches and solutions to […]

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Vienna bets on solar to reach passive energy standards

Jenny Lööf — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:31:29 +0000

For the ninth consecutive year, Vienna has been selected as the best world capital for quality of life. Yet the city is not planning to rest on its laurels for the next years; on the contrary, ambitious international projects, such as the EU-GUGLE and Smarter Together initiatives are currently running to make of the Austrian […]

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Historic renovations in Aachen – or how to reach the right balance between monument and energy conservation

Jenny Lööf — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:16:04 +0000

Some buildings maintain decades of history inside them, survive wars and bombings, but fail to keep their inhabitants and visitors warm in hard winter times. In Aachen, at the border of Germany and at the heart of past European conflicts, several historical buildings from the early twenties suffer from insufficient insulation and do not comply […]

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Towards Class A schools – Teaching sustainable renovation in Milan

Jenny Lööf — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:48:27 +0000

On Friday 25 May, the city of Milan organised a seminar to discuss the impact of the introduction of energy classification in the building sector and in particular the upcoming steps towards the energy efficient renovation of schools in Italy. In that framework, several school renovation projects and initiatives promoting sustainable school refurbishment towards Nearly […]

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Large energy savings in EU-GUGLE pilot city Tampere

Jenny Lööf — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:59:35 +0000

In the EU-GUGLE pilot city Tampere, the EU-GUGLE project has co financed energy renovations of 8 limited hability housing companies, with total energy savings of 40%. In a newly produced video, Tampere presents some of the highlights from the renovations in the Tammela district.

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Open house event in Tampere’s pilot buildings drew a lot of attention

Jenny Lööf — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:30:49 +0000

The EU-GUGLE project arranged an open house event in two retrofitted BEST buildings in Tampere 4.6.2018. The event got over 200 excited people to see what had been done during the renovations. The limited liability housing company Pohjolankatu 18-20, known as BEST 7, got 55 % energy savings in purchased energy this far by new […]

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