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Interview of Torun Windström - REHVA Fellow
In honor of the International Women in Engineering Day, REHVA wanted to share this interview of Torun Widström. In May 2024, Widström was awarded the REHVA Fellowship for her continuous work and support in REHVA activities.
Stop talking about energy supply and focus on decreasing demand instead
Written by Anita Derjanecz, Managing Director of REHVA
REPowerEU. Can Europe break its dependency on Russia’s fossil fuels?
Written by Anita Derjanecz, Managing Director of REHVA
We need new criteria for ventilation design
Written by Olli Seppänen, President of FINVAC, former REHVA President
The Renovation wave should kick-start a just healthy building transition in Europe
Written by Anita Derjanecz, Managing Director of REHVA
Room air purifiers in the COVID-19 era
written by Olli Seppänen, President of FINVAC, former REHVA President
Healthy buildings and green recovery in the post-covid Europe
Written by Anita Derjanecz, Managing Director of REHVA
The EU Taxonomy: benchmark for sustainable investments and a tool for the EU Green Deal
The final report on EU Taxonomy, developed by the Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance, has been made public on 9th of March 2020. Firstly launched in June 2018 and then modified according to a double round of stakeholders feedback, the report represents a set of recommendations to the overarching design of the Taxonomy, as well as a guidance on how companies and financial institutions can make disclosures using the taxonomy.
The Taxonomy Regulation (TR), agreed at political…
Good indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is an essential part of NZEB
EPBD 2012 is now implemented in all members states. Although the directive does not specify the indoor parameters, it requests that buildings must be healthy. EPBD revision 2018 specifies in several articles that the requirements of indoor climate must be met and refers to national or regional specifications. The numeric values for the indoor environmental parameters are now more important than ever. Deterioration of indoor environment is banned due to energy savings. Studies have shown that…
Policy Briefing: Headlines of the hearing of Commissioner-Designate for Energy
On September 30th, ITRE (the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy) in association with ENVI (Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) at the European Parliament held a hearing of the Commissioner-designate for Energy, Kadri Simson. The Commissioner-designate underlined her commitment to the functioning of the Energy Union, to provide clean and affordable energy to consumers, to facilitate the energy transition towards carbon-neutrality in 2050 and to assist those…