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4 May 2020

EXCESS project proposes holistic definition of a Positive Energy Building

Statistically, 40 percent of energy consumption and 36 percent of emissions come from buildings. For that reason energy efficiency has become one of the EU’s top priorities and led it to acknowledge that buildings are key to achieving its goal...

21 April 2020

A presentation of the EXCESS demo site in Granada, Spain

Four ambitious demonstration projects - in which innovative yet cost-competitive building technology packages will be tested - lie at the heart of the EXCESS project. This month, we are presenting the Spanish PEB pilot project: The residential...

10 March 2020

The first EXCESS co-innovation workshop took place in Belgium

A dialogue for the success of the Positive Energy Buildings project in Hasselt, Belgium, was at the core of the 1st EXCESS co-innovation workshop designed and facilitated by project partner Prospex Institute (PI). A diverse set of stakeholders -...

13 November 2019

Defining a Positive Energy Building for EXCESS

As one of the first tasks in the EXCESS project, the consortium prepared a definition for what is meant by a Positive Energy Building (PEB) within its framework. Through several discussion rounds, partners concluded that the following would be an...

27 September 2019

Interview with Andreas Türk from Joanneum Research, coordinator of the EXCESS project

Why a project such as EXCESS? We know that the building sector is responsible for 40 percent of energy consumption, as well as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU. As such, the decarbonisation potential within this sector is great. Energy...