METABUILDING Cross-sectional and cross-border innovation ecosystem for European SME's H2020 METABUILDING (2020-2023) METABUILDING offers financial support for innovation. The METABUILDING project consortium will manage the open calls directed at SME’s that wish to engage in collaboration outside of their sector to bring innovation to the construction sector. Please follow this link to find out more information. METABUILDING target sectors. Innovation within the ...

The Swedish Green Roof Handbook - a new updated version The Swedish green roof handbook is a local adaptation of the knowledge that has been gathered over many years in Sweden, Germany and other parts of the world. The idea with our handbook has been to not only point out how to do but also try to explain how and ...

An update on past events and awards in Scandinavia The Scandinavian Green Roof Award 2020 The Green Roof Award has been given out annually to the best green roof project in Scandinavia since the award's inception in 2000, as an initiative of The City of Malmö. The award is intended to inspire the Scandinavian green roof market toward excellence and ...

New reference-project in Budapest The abundant brownfield lands of Budapest possess special potential in the green infrastructure politics of the Hungarian capital. The Millenáris Széllkapu Park completed in 2019 provides an excellent example for the development of these areas. The fact alone that one of the most valuable properties of the city has been used for urban green area development ...

Austrian standard for vertical greening (ÖNORM L1136) New standard for vertical greening is published MA31, Vienna (c) Weiss-Tessbach "The aim of the new ÖNORM is to establish and maintain sustainable greening of façades all year round, taking into account seasons, geographical and climatic location as well as the greening objective" explains Ing. Stefan Brunnauer, VfB’s Head of Technical Committee for ...

GReENERGY The cross-border project that brings green infrastructure and green energy in urban environments (c) NGRA The GReENERGY project, entitled "Greening the cities - Development and promotion of energy efficiency and sustainable urban environment in the cities of Croatia-Serbia cross-border region", is a project funded by the European Union through the Interreg-IPA cross-border cooperation program Croatia-Serbia 2014-2020. The total value ...

BuGG – Market Report on Building Greening 2020 published Over 7.2 million square metres of new green roofs in Germany in 2019! BuGG - Market Report on Building Greening 2020 with information and figures on the market for roof, façade and interior greening. © BuGG With the “BuGG – Market Report on Building Greening 2020”, the German Association of Building ...

Communicate Green Roof Business Rules Construction in France is framed by norms that refer to so-called “current techniques”. When the revegetation of non-accessible roofs developed and intensified more than twenty years ago, the profession drafted professional rules for the design and realization of green terraces and greenroofs, validated by the competent authorities, to establish the recognition of these new techniques ...