Register now for the IWG5 webinar “Driving Sustainable Renovation”

June 18, 2025

Sustainability focuses on balancing current needs with the needs of future generations.  This webinar explores how sustainable renovation actively advances two key pillars of sustainability—environmental and social—within the framework of renovation projects and how this can inform the preparation by policymakers of National Building Renovation Plans. It will introduce the work of the IWG5-CSA and the DeCO2 project covering the following topics:

  • Circularity, sustainability, affordability, just transition- insights from the IWG5-project
  • Circular Tools to Support Building Professionals: The DeCO₂ Project

Register here to secure your place.

Programme:

  • 10.45 Introduction – Francesco Guarino, University of Palermo (Co-Chair of IWG5)
  • 10.50 National Building Renovation Plans (NBRPs): sustainability and circularity aspects (D 1.10) – Cornelia Partsch, ECTP
  • 11.00  Sustainability, affordability, just transition: Insights of the   White Paper on  Affordable, Sustainable Energy Transition and Building Renovation-Teresa Cuerdo, IETcc-CSIC (Co-chair of IWG5)
  • 11.10 Q&A     
  • 11.20 “Circular tools to support building professionals: the DeCO2 project”- Miriam Navarro, Valencia Institute of Buildings
  • 11.35 Q&A 
  • 11.40 Closing – Francesco Guarino, University of Palermo (Co-Chair of IWG5)

This webinar is organised by the EU SET Plan group IWG5 Buildings.

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