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With great delay, the Italian government has finally implemented the EU Directive 2010/31 on Near Zero Energy Buildings.
This directive leads the way for the future development of the entire European construction industry: let’s explore what it is, shall we?
PHPP – Passivhaus Design SoftwareThe iPHa – International Passive House Association – recently announced the new release of version 8 of PHPP, the design software for passive buildings.
After the 2012 release of version 7, this upgrade is going to allow further improvements for better design in warm humid climates with Passivhaus standard.
Italy’s GSE (Gestore Servizi Energetici) has released their 2011 Statistical Report: Solar Photovoltaics (click for PDF download), stating that Italy installed more new photovoltaic plants than any other country in the world last year, and now ranks second only to Germany in total installed capacity.
Graphisoft has just released the preview videos for their new ArchiCAD version 16, and we are pretty excited about it here at Emu Architects. Enrico Bonilauri has written an extensive assessment of the newly integrated energy analysis features (basically incorporating EcoDesigner) over on our Italian blog. I’ll attempt to translate his thoughts into English here for our international readers:
This summer, according to Paul Gipe’s newsletter from Wind-Works.org, Italy surpassed Spain and Japan to become the second place country in the competition for installed PV capacity.
