The challenge Historic buildings are an important part of our cultural environment, but they often have low energy performance and high heating costs. As Europe aims to reduce energy use and emissions from buildings, heritage homes must be preserved while …
The transition toward climate-neutral building stocks presents major challenges for the conservation of historic buildings. Balancing energy efficiency, sustainability, and heritage preservation requires interdisciplinary knowledge and accessible decision-support resources. The Knowledge HUB, developed by ICOMOS within the EU-funded FuturHist project, …
The second 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 held on October 15, 2026. Special guest: Caleche. The episode focused on the …
FuturHist develops typology-based, replicable approaches to improve the energy performance, comfort and resilience of historic buildings while respecting their cultural values. This presentation introduces the project’s technical and knowledge-exchange work, including the ICOMOS Knowledge HUB and invites to share transferable …
Gráinne will present an early historic house upgrade from 2010, which has provided an informal learning laboratory, alongside the recent Europa Nostra Grand Prix winning ‘OPW Improving the Energy Performance of Heritage Properties in State Care Initiative’. Both show the …
Renovating a heritage home is often a complex journey shaped by technical, regulatory and financial challenges. This presentation explores how the LIFE heritageHOME project responded to these challenges by creating practical tools, expert support services and policy recommendations that make …
Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is one of the key legislative documents that influences the built heritage. To foster the inclusion of the heritage sector and heritage aspects in the implemantation of the directive, the ICOMOS Europe group created an …
The integration of environmental design and conservation theory provides a valuable framework for guiding climate mitigation interventions on built heritage and preventing maladaptation. After outlining the theoretical foundations of this approach, the presentation showcases case studies from research projects that …
Building maintenance has long been an established part of building conservation work, but through maintenance and small, benign changes, significant improvements to a building’s energy performance and carbon emissions can be achieved while preserving the building’s cultural value in a …
Built heritage around the world demonstrates a range of proven, measurable, and largely underrecognized decarbonization solutions. This presentation will share principles, case studies, and key policy levers from the Decarbonizing the Built Environment through Heritage initiative and present how built …
LIFE heritageHOME legacy report
A Digital Platform for Sustainable Heritage Retrofit
The second episode of the FuturHist webinar series, “Future-Proofing Historic Buildings for the Clean Energy Transition: Dialogues with FuturHist & HeriTACE”.
Philipp Hesse at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”
Gráinne Shaffrey at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”
Kadri Kallast, Laura Ingerpuu, Alois Andreas Põdra at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”
Riin Alatalu at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”
Filippo Calcerano at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”
Dr James Ritson at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”
Lori Ferriss at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”