List of News

22/08/2012

EDUCATE – European Research Program on Sustainable Design Education of Architects

EDUCATE, a research program on sustainable design education and practice funded by the European Commission’s Energy Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI), has recently launched a…

17/08/2012

“Green” Schools for children in Romania

The Romania Green Building Council (RoGBC) organizes a nationwide contest for Romania's schools to award a prize package of green building materials, services and technology to help create a…

15/08/2012

Ten Myths about Upcoming Building Energy Rating Certificate

Czech President Vaclav Klaus vetoed an amendment to the law on environment impact assessment (EIA) that the EU wants the Czech Republic to pass and returned it to the Chamber of Deputies for…

13/08/2012

Sustainable Olympics

Skeptics say that the Olympics are used mainly for swanking, showing that "we are good", to marketing and money making. In London it is much more. It is an example of transparent and meaningful use…

08/08/2012

Green Home Labels Add 9 Percent Price Premium

A new study involving an unusually large sample of 1.6 million homes sold in California between 2007 and early 2012 has documented that a green certification label on a house adds an average of…

06/08/2012

Wine Cellar, Brickyard HELUZ and Sustainable Materials

In the early summer there was a meeting of the Sustainable Materials Task Group of the Czech Green Building Council. It began unusually in the South Moravian wine cellar. Wine tasting in pension…

31/07/2012

LEED - Certified Building Stock Swells to Two Billion Square Feet Worldwide

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that the total footprint of commercial projects certified under the LEED green building program surpassed two billion square feet. An…

30/07/2012

Accelerating Green Building Market Transformation

Chris Pyke, Vice President of Research, U.S. Green Building Council, presents new ideas for how we can use information to drive the next generation of green building market…

20/07/2012

Slovak Green Building Council Successfully Continues Its Development

After a year and a half of active work the Slovak Green Building Council achieves further success. a New nine-member board of directors was elected at the General Assembly in May 2012 and the…

18/07/2012

Europe’s Buildings Under the Microscope

A country-by-country review of the energy performance of buildings was prepared by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) and published in 2011. To create a sound basis for political…