Cities and buildings

The European Commission has opened a public consultation to evaluate the effectiveness of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.

EPEE has welcomed the European Commission’s plans for a resilient Energy Union and its focus on cooling applications in buildings.

Honeywell has today officially launched four new lower GWP refrigerants for applications ranging from supermarket refrigeration to industrial cooling.

Retailers have called on the cooling supply chain for solutions to help them meet a triple challenge of tight margins; smaller store footprints and new refrigerant choices.

Engineers at Stanford University, California, claim to have invented a new mirror-like material which could reduce the air conditioning load of buildings.

According to the German Federal Bureau of Statistics, the share of heat pumps used as primary heating device for newly constructed residential buildings was 32,2% in 2013 – a gain of 2% compared to 2012.

New research from Parks Associates shows young consumers, those with children, and those in a home for three to four years are leading the adoption of Internet-connected smart home energy management devices.

BOULDER, Colo. — Because of the substantial number of existing buildings, retrofits are a critical pathway to greening the world’s commercial buildings, notes Navigant Research.

The capital of Qatar provided two ultra-modern fanzones cooled by the latest climate technology for football fans watching  the matches of the recently concluded World Cup FIFA ™ 2014 in Brazil.

A hospital in Aydin, Turkey, is to serve as a test case to demonstrate that it is possible to reduce energy consumption by 50% and decrease greenhouse gas emissions with retrofitting solutions.

12-13 of April, 2013, the seventh National Congress of the “Ecoholod” Republican Public Association (RAC) was held in Bishkek.