The Board builds two pilot homes in Ribera del Fresno based on natural materials to see how much energy efficiency improves.

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The natural and recycled materials sector is growing and the potential of these materials in various aspects can be demonstrated, as verified by the ReNaturalNZEB project, a Portuguese-Spanish consortium involving LNEG and ITeCons. However, Paula Duarte, coordinator of the initiative at LNEG, says that “demand is not yet pulling supply” and that the market still has to mature.

The Life ReNaturalNZEB project managed by the Junta de Extremadura seeks to "introduce renewable" and natural materials in buildings to seek sustainability in the construction process and building as well as their energy efficiency. This has been indicated by the general director of Architecture and Building Quality, Alfonso Gómez Goñi, who has explained that materials such as cork or rice husks are used.

From June 20 to 22, 2022, the XVIII Iberian Congress and the XIV Ibero-American Solar Energy Congress -CIES 2022- took place on the university campus of Palma de Mallorca (Spain), bringing together researchers from the Ibero-American community, Spanish speakers and Portuguese, of the different fields of application of solar energy.

Organized by the City Council of San Vicente de Alcántara with a biannual character in the month of April, the International Cork Fair fulfills a double mission. On the one hand, the economic revitalization of the cork sector, providing the opportunity to contact wineries, sommeliers, oenologists and sectors that have an impact on the local economy, increasing the sale of stoppers and corks in general. On the other hand, the objective is to highlight the importance of the culture associated with cork together with the environmental values ​​of this product, such as sustainability, contributing to the conservation of the cork oak ecosystem, resulting in a 100% biodegradable product.

At the request of the teaching staff of the Building Degree at the University of Extremadura, a training session on natural and recycled materials was organized within the framework of the LIFE ReNatural NZEB project.

Held at the INTROMAC facilities, the conference was structured in five main parts:

The Andalusian Housing and Rehabilitation Agency, belonging to the Ministry of Development, Infrastructure and Territory Planning of the Andalusian Government, organized the 1st Congress on Innovation and Sustainability in Social Housing.

The Congress was organized in a mixed format, held in person at the ETS Building Engineering of the University of Granada and broadcast online.

As concerns about sustainability, efficiency, and well-being continue to grow, the construction industry must not only continue to embrace new technologies, processes, and materials, but must also continue to address the many challenges facing the existing building stock. . In this sense, the aim of the first CEES international conference was to bring together researchers, engineers, planners, stakeholders and policymakers from construction, energy and the environment to address these challenges.

The exhibition of sustainable construction materials took place between October 9 and 17, 2021, at Alma Shopping, in Coimbra. A sample of sustainable construction materials was made available, focused on the rediscovery of ancestral materials and their adaptation to contemporary functional requirements, the development of innovative eco-efficient materials, as well as the recovery of by-products and waste.