On October 15th, ITeC participated in the presentation of the LIFE EcoTimberCell project in Lugo, an initiative that promotes sustainable construction with local timber from a consortium of different organizations [...]
The housing sector is a major source of the current global problems of resource depletion and climate change in Europe. In such situation the European Houseful project was launched in [...]
The Technical Committee of the 4th Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Congress (EECN – Edificios de Energía Casi Nula) has selected the paper entitled ‘Estimation of the Energy Consumption of All [...]
Licino Alfaro, Head of the Department of Sustainable Construction at ITeC, gave a talk at the Vienna Congress on Sustainable Building on the introduction of environmental indicators in the construction [...]
The main objective of the EU project Houseful (systemic eco-innovative approaches for the circular economy: large-scale demonstration projects) is to develop and demonstrate in four large-scale residential buildings a new [...]
Reducing the environmental impact of buildings is the primary objective of the Life Reusing Posidonia project. The venture, funded by the European Union under its Life + 2012 programme, proposes [...]
Last September 29th, ITeC, signed the document of commitment with Barcelona+Sostenible, which entails embracing shared responsibility in the construction of a more sustainable Barcelona, in accordance with the objectives and [...]
More and more companies and individuals are opting for the economic, environmental and social benefits of sustainable construction, a decision that can earn them international awards. Each year BREEAM® organises [...]
On 22 February last the members of the HomeSkin consortium met in France to monitor progress to date in this European project in which ITeC is actively involved as a [...]
In January, the Institute took part in the BAU 2017 architecture trade fair in Munich, where we presented the HomeSkin project, funded by the European research and innovation programme Horizon [...]