Announcement of the workshop at EPFL “Benchmarking of Resource Use and Embodied CO2 in Buildings”

The increase in frequency of extreme weather events is building up the political pressure and raising the bar for C02 mitigation goals. Buildings are known to contribute over their service life for around 40% of the anthropogenic emissions. Building structure is the single highest contribution to the embodied C02. It is estimated that building design and, particularly, building structural design, have a potential to mitigate 20 - 50% of the embodied C02 of buildings embodied […]

With the contributions of the speakers and the strong support of the audience, this webinar series has received significant attention and interest. Now, the webinar series has come to the final stage – namely the Panel Discussion. For the Panel Discussion we have invited some of the speakers from webinar together with some of the participants. The goal is to jointly identify gaps between current industry practice and academic research, challenges and potentials in related […]

Join us for an online town-hall meeting on November 21st. This meeting will be used to introduce the new Chair and Senior Advisor, provide updates on GLOBE actions, and make some presentations from within the organization, as well as provide a forum for open discussion. The meeting link will be distributed directly to members. If you are not yet a member of GLOBE and would like to attend, please join our mailing list here.