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Retrofitting public buildings is crucial to meeting Europe’s energy efficiency goals. But can new knowledge in retrofitting be replicated across the EU?

The move to energy efficient buildings is on. Two European directives are gently nudging things along, by requiring that 3% of public buildings be renovated every year and that public buildings be almost energy zero by 2018.

A consortium of European researchers called BRICKER are trying to nail down the challenging combination of retrofitted technologies to suit different public buildings in different climates.