MAY 2024 Designing bird-friendly buildings Preventing collisions with bird protection glass solutions Glass is an essential material in buildings. It benefits occupants by providing the natural daylight necessary for health and well-being, offers architectural freedom in design as well as visual connections with the outdoors and nature. While all these benefits are made possible by
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February 2024 Recycling of end-of-life building glass A powerful tool to reduce CO2 emissions Recycling flat glass is the most beneficial end-of-life option for building glass and glazing[1].In addition to its environmental benefits, recycling[2] is one of the most prominent ways to reduce energy consumption and CO₂ emissions from glass manufacturing. The use of recycled
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Choosing ‘High energy performance’ glazing in windows Informative paper on the benefits of high energy performance glazing in renovation, its technologies and key performance parameters compared to older and inefficient glazing https://glassforeurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GFE_HP_Glazing_Final.mp4 Glass and glazing have a unique feature: transparency. It is thanks to this transparency that glass lets daylight into buildings and offers
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Glazing contribution to summer comfort A social and climate priority During the last years, heat waves have become more severe, frequent, and prolonged in the European Union and temperatures are expected to rise further in the next century throughout the continent. The impact of heat waves has shown that European buildings
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October 2022 Calculations of embodied and operational carbon of double and triple glazed windows To achieve the EU’s goal to reduce overall carbon emissions, one route pursued by EU authorities is to move towards zero-emission buildings[i]. It means that the CO2 emitted for heating and cooling the building throughout its lifetime, i.e., the operational carbon,
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March 2022 High-performance glazing to make EU buildings fit for 2030 Improvements needed to the recast of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD) Achieving the target on CO2 emission reduction of at least 55% by 2030 as proposed by the European Commission[1], will require drastic cuts in buildings’ energy consumption and related emissions. The
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Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2022 – Opening up the potential of windows The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) has contributed to improving the energy performance of European buildings and our associations ARGE, European Aluminium, EPPA, ES-SO, EuroWindoor and Glass for Europe are strong supporters of this framework. Buildings account for about 40% of
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Energy Efficiency First and a supportive Renewable Energy framework to slash CO2 emissions in Europe Position Paper on the recasts of the Energy Efficiency Directive and the Renewable Energy Directive Glass for Europe welcomes the European Commission proposal to achieve higher energy savings and to integrate more renewables in our society for the EU to achieve
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An EU ETS mechanism for buildings and transport It is Glass for Europe’s conviction that to achieve the ambitious target on CO2 emission reduction of minus 55% by 2030 as proposed by the European Commission[1], drastic cuts in CO2 emissions from the building sector will be needed in Europe. Swift actions are needed today in
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Ensuring a proper assessment of the energy performance of windows when implementing the revised EPBD The revision of the Energy Performance of Building Directive[1] offers a unique opportunity to the European Commission to instruct Member States on how to optimise the energy performance of national building stocks and thus to contribute to achieving a
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Reviewing the Energy Efficiency Framework to generate a window replacement wave The window, door and flat glass industry welcomes the publication of the Commission’s communication “A Renovation Wave for Europe – greening our buildings, creating jobs, improving lives”[1]. The objective to double the annual energy renovation rate of residential and non-residential buildings by 2030 represents
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December 2020 Glass for Europe’s comments to Sustainable finance – EU classification system for green investments The European flat glass sector takes it as its role to produce the materials essential for conducting energy-efficient renovations of buildings, for supporting clean mobility with lighter and thermally efficient automotive glazing and for increasing the share of
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