The first episode of the FuturHist webinar series, “Future-Proofing Historic Buildings for the Clean Energy Transition: Dialogues with FuturHist & HeriTACE", co-produced with the HeriTACE project, was launched on October 15, 2025. The episode focused on the topic: "From Case …
The first episode of the FuturHist webinar series, “From Heritage to Energy Transition with FuturHist & INTBAU. Passive and Active Solutions for Historic Buildings”, co-produced with the INTBAU, was held on March 17, 2026. This session focused on the topic: …
Following the public consultations of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), ICOMOS Europe group formed an Expert Group to follow the implementation of the Directive in European countries and foster the inclusion of heritage sector and heritage aspects in …
This report summarises the work of the ICOMOS Expert Group on the Implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in the Built Heritage Sector, established in 2023 to evaluate the impact of the EPBD recast on Europe’s historic …
Agenda: Welcome,by Franziska Haas (ICOMOS ISCES ex-President) Presentationof FuturHist, by Daniel Herrera (FuturHist Project Coordinator) Briefintroduction to Spara og Bevara, by Tor Broström (ICOMOS ISCES President) Presentationof the Hub, by Philipp Hesse (ICOMOS ISCES Secretary General) Feedbackand discussion
Two infrared reflective coatings recently developed as part of the EFFESUS European research project are characterized and evaluated in this paper. Thermal performance, durability, compatibility with historic fabric, and reversibility are all analysed. The results of extensive research that include …
Current energy consumption estimates for building stocks rarely use measured data. Calculated data of supposed representative buildings are extrapolated to a wider building stock. Conclusions drawn about supposed similar energy consumption levels risk being misleading when considering older buildings. The …
This paper presents an approach where a survey study is combined with energy and indoor environment auditing in the built environment. The combination of methods presented in this paper is one way to obtain a wider perspective on the indoor …
Architectural integration of plants in historic buildings has always been a much debated topic. Nowadays it is enriched with an ethical connotation linked to sustainability/environmental responsibility (reduction of energy consumption, using renewable energy sources, reduction of CO2 emission, etc.). This …
Among the policies and regulations aimed at reducing the energy use in building stocks, the retrofit of historic buildings is one of the hardest challenges both for research and practice, because it is necessary to combine the traditional energy/economy targets …