February 9, 2015
by Angela Sanchini (ARES)
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The Executive Council of UNI (Italian Organization for Standardization) approved the new UNI Practice Reference “Environmental sustainability in costructions- Operational tools for the assessment of sustainability” that allows to formulate a synthetic judgment on the overall performance of a building, … Continue reading
January 5, 2015
by Etienne Vienot (RAEE)
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CESBA stands for Common European Sustainable Building Assessment and represents a bottom-up initiative towards promoting a harmonization of sustainable building assessment throughout Europe. Mountee is part of this European approach, mainly developing service package for local authorities. CESBA welcomes the … Continue reading
December 12, 2014
by Jakob Ebner
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I am technical engineer and have the opportunity to work with one our Mountee pilots in Dalarna – the new primary school (7000 m2) in the small municipality of Älvdalen. In order to evaluate different technical solutions and reach our … Continue reading
October 9, 2014
by Jakob Ebner
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One of our MountEE pilots is right now discussing implementation of lightsource. Some of our experts and leading manufacturers say that by today long-life fluorescent light is more economic in classrooms than LED-light. And I just wonder if you have … Continue reading
August 29, 2014
by Jakob Ebner
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The Building Dialogue Dalarna, Sweden, gathering all members in the building chain of the region, is working on the introduction of a general certification system for sustainable buildings in order to raise quality and effectiveness in the building process. At … Continue reading
April 17, 2014
by Sebastien Eyraud (ASDER)
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The use of renewable energy is becoming a necessity. The issue of their deployment in the territories gather sometimes a lot of concern. The installation of solar panels tends to generalize. However, this should not be at the expense of … Continue reading
April 14, 2014 by Carole Piton (CIPRA) | 0 comments
Last week we had the opportunity to interview Dietmar Lenz and Rainer Siegele who are involved in testing the Module 5 “Energy maintenance” of the Service package “sustainable:building in the municipality” in the Region of Vorarlberg (Austria)
The module 5 aims to control and optimize the energy consumtion and the cleaning process – during the planing phase, during the buildings works and by the use of the building.
They answer to our questions:
Dietmar Lenz, from Umweltverband Vorarlberg
“What was your experience by testing the module 5 “Energy and Maintenance?”
“Could you see any saves of the energy consumption thanks to the Module 5?”
Rainer Siegele, Mayor of Mäder, Pilot building
“What is your practical experience?”
March 6, 2014
by Etienne Vienot (RAEE)
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Rhônalpénergie-Environment organized a study trip to attend an evaluation committee of sustainable buildings projects by BDM, the regional tool and approach of sustainable buildings in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region (South of France). The BDM approach was born in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur … Continue reading
January 14, 2014
by Jakob Ebner
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The influence of LED-light on our well being and health was discussed at a seminar in Dalarna in dec 2013. One of the lecturers, professor Lars Bylund from Bergen School of Architecture, Norway, made it very clear that daylight has a … Continue reading
November 20, 2013
by Sebastien Eyraud (ASDER)
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Towards taking into account long-term benefits of buildings: In the best Sustainable Communities Initiative, evaluating the buildings costs takes into account the investment and operation. It is now recognized that more careful design allows a cheaper construction. Very few projects … Continue reading