Author: alex

Chalmers recently released the first online version of the DREEAM renovation planning tool. The tool allows the calculation of renovation designs for a building portfolio whilst considering multiple targets. For example, maximum energy consumption reduction vs. ROI. The purpose is to support housing companies in...

Rolf Bastiaanssen of Bax & Company, Sebina Manente of ATER and Izabela Kurkowska of Chalmers represented DREEAM at the annual EURHONET conference 'Housing the future – Stronger together!'.  The conference took place on the 25th October in Turin and was hosted by the ATC Piemonte...

Holger Wallbaum of Chalmers presented DREEAM at RISE’s 'A better construction' conference, that took place on the 24-25th October in Borås. The annual conference gathers key stakeholders from the construction industry in Sweden, in order to discuss the latest trends in the industry. Among others, the...

ATER Treviso is starting the renovation of the two tower buildings, containing 18 apartments each, located in the Borgo Furo area of Treviso. Currently, the buildings are not insulated and have double glazed windows with ageing zinc coated steel frames and PVC shutters. Small 25kW natural...

Representatives of Places for People and RISE met in Preston mid-September to discuss procurement offers received from potential contractors to execute the DREEAM renovation at the start of 2018. Derek Watters, Sue Dixon and Alan Thomas of property development company Places for People and Francesco...

Berlin housing cooperative 1892 will join DREEAM as a new project pilot. 1892 provide a building portfolio of 6773 units across Berlin. A total of 164 units from the Berlin district Mitte, totaling 11.000 m² living space, will be renovated as part of DREEAM. The renovation that...

Miguel Fontela and Héctor Martínez (Exeleria) represented DREEAM at the “Sustainable building” group meeting of the EURHONET network that took place the 20th June in Calais (France). The main theme of Exeleria’s presentation was sustainability certification. Héctor Martinez showed a compact comparison and analysis of main...

DREEAM work was demonstrated at the International Social Housing Festival in Amsterdam (13th to 23rd June ). The overall theme of the festival was “Affordable Housing now, better communities tomorrow”. DREEAM was presented on the 14th of June as part of a session on “Energy efficiency...

Claudio Nägeli (Chalmers) presented DREEAM and his research contribution to the project at the World Sustainable Built Environment (WSBE) conference in Hong Kong (5-7th June 2017). The WSBE is one of the most acknowledged academia-lead conferences focusing on sustainability trends and practices. The theme of...