Webinar about recent developments in European preventive maintenance & monitoring projects of built heritage. (October 16th, 2026) Presentations: James Ritson (University of the Built Environment, UK): The importance of maintenance in achieving our sustainability goals Branislav Rezník (Pro Monumenta, Slovakia): …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The presentation highlights current trends and strategies for cultural heritage and historic buildings in climate policies within UNFCCC and UNESCO processes from the perspective of ICOMOS contributions. The author argues for the importance of implementation pathways and mechanisms that move …
The presentation will be about the role of the EU`s policies in responding to the different threats of climate change and how they affect cultural heritage, what kind of technologies are available to tackle the challenges highlighted by examples from …
ISCES Webinar
LIFE heritageHOME legacy report
Philipp Hesse 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”
Ave Paulus at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”
Johanna Leissner at the Conference “European Heritage Homes in Climate Policies and Action”