The EUB SuperHub Online Platform: Towards a smart and sustainable construction future

The EUB SuperHub platform is an integrated cloud data hub for building information.

Imagine how much easier life would be with an online repository containing all relevant information about a building over its lifecycle while also connecting all stakeholders, from developers and contractors to tenants and maintenance teams. Moving from imagination to reality, Ahmed Khoja, senior researcher at Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and Dr Marina Malinovec Puček, lead consultant at the […]

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The science of dishwashing: Changing habits for a greener world

Schencking and Stamminger identify best practice tips for manual and electric dishwashing.

By making small changes to our domestic habits, we can make a big difference to global energy use and resource consumption. That’s the message from a new review report, which shows how rethinking the everyday task of washing up can help private households to become significantly more resource efficient. Led by Dr Lotta Schencking and Professor Rainer Stamminger from the […]

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Central banks and climate change mitigation: A Money View perspective

Dr Jakob Vestergaard explores the role that central banks can play in mitigating climate change, using a Money View approach to analyse the possibilities

Directing financial flows on a path towards low CO2 emissions was a key objective of the Paris Agreement, but as Dr Jakob Vestergaard, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University in Denmark, observes, ‘financial flows are not on that path at all’. In his investigation of the role of central banks in climate change […]

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