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The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) now requires EU member states to renovate faster while prioritising the worst-performing buildings and providing stronger support to households facing energy poverty. The challenge now is making th

Following the highest number of multifamily completions in nearly 40 years in 2024, completions declined in 2025 to 484,000, according to NAHB analysis of the Census Bureau’s Survey of Construction. For the ninth consecutive year, a majority of new m

Planners say development projects in the River District, including apartment buildings, can shape Montpelier's future and that current zoning allows for six-story buildings but developers aren’t doing it.

Volodymyr joined BPIE in March 2023. Before joining he completed a Blue Book traineeship in the European Commission in the ‘Buildings and Products’ Unit of DG ENER. There he obtained first-hand experience with the energy efficiency in buildings polic

For the first time, the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) introduces EU-wide requirements on the whole-life carbon impact of buildings. While this is a major step forward, questions remain around costs, complexity, and how thes

Friday, 5.00 p.m. after an intense working week, adrenaline high, energy levels running on empty. To my surprise, the plenary room with several hundred seats at the Buildings & Climate Global Forum in Paris is still packed with delegates. Earlier tha

Among the many updates in the 2024 revision of the EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), one of the least discussed—but arguably most consequential—is the revision of the cost-optimality framework. Now, as the Commission actively gat

PROGRESS BUT INSUFFICIENT AND UNEVEN  The EU BCT shows a marked acceleration of building decarbonisation in recent years. After the index fell to –0.5 points in 2021, it increased sharply to 11.9 points in 2022 and further to 19.2 points in 2023, rep

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