The I Congress of EECN initiates the transformation of the edificación to the energetic efficiency

The inauguration ran to charge Inés Loyal, director of the Congress EECN, José Manuel Páez, director of International Subjects of the UPM, that attended in representation of Solar Decathlon Europe, and Moving away Halffter, viceconsejero of House and Am used to of the Conserjería of Environingingment and Ordenación of the Territory of the Community of Madrid, that stood out the need of a change of model, in the challenge to act in the park of existent houses, taking into account in new paradigm of the sustainable development. In addition to doing reference to the performances of his department in the Community of Madrid, finished encouraging “to the professionals to advance in this challenge that supposes that the buildings of the administration, are of consumption of power Almost Invalid in the year 2018”.

“The buildings of consumption of power almost invalid are a challenge that needs a multidisciplinary answer and a clear definition of want it that they are in our country” affirmed Inés Loyal, standing out “the big opportunity that the energetic efficiency in the edificación poses us like professionals”.

Javier Serra, representative of the Ministry responsible for public works, desgranó in the first report magistral of the congress the lines that goes to follow the modification of the Technical Code of the Edificación that will realise this year, like consequence of the Directive 2010/31/EU, where the reduction of the demand and the increase of the renewable energies will be main axles.

Eight presentations of oral communications and a round table on Plans, Political, measures, financials and requirements for the EECN completed the morning of 7 May.

In the afternoon put the approach in the architecture and the Urbanismo in the design of the EECN and after the presentation of communications, the report magistral ‘Two projects to a building of invalid power' ran to charge of Francisco Sanjuán, of the Study of architecture Vidal and Associated, and of Jason García, manager of the Study of architecture Rogers Stirk Harbour+Partners (RSH+P).

The congressmen could enjoy at night of a cocktail in the new headquarters of the Official School of Architects of Madrid, entity collaborator of the event, where could comment the become in the congress during the day and generate networking between speakers, companies and assistants. This coctel realised with the support of Natural gas Fenosa and Kömmerling.

The Wednesday 8, began with the report magistral of José María Fields, of the European Association of Buildings Energetically Efficient, that presented “the vision of the power in edificación in the Europe of the 2050 and aims for 2020”. Fields affirmed that “Europe wants to create an industry of the Energetic Efficiency of the Edificación and for this will need professional of high profile and with a learning and appropriate qualification”.

The most notable conclusion of the Congress is the transformation that is producing of the sector of the construction in Europe, and the need that the professionals of the sector are the main actors of this change. The energetic efficiency in the edificación will contribute, without place to doubt, to the generation of thousands of places of work in the next years.

In the closure, Inés Loyal aimed that “from today begin to work in the following forum of meeting, in the second edition of the Congress of Buildings of Power Almost Invalid”, inviting to the assistants and to the sector of the construction and the edificación to contribute all the knowledge purchased during the I Congress of Buildings of Power Almost Invalid.

During the congress has remained in evidence that “we still have not arrived to define in Spain what is a building of consumption of power almost invalid, but are many those that are looking for the form to achieve it”, concluded the director of the I Congress EECN.

The organisation bet by the participation in the social networks transmitting the event through twitter with the support of several means. Like result, the hashtag of the Congress #CongresoEECN turned into Trending Topic in Spain in Twitter during the morning of the Monday, thanks to the implication of the half collaborators, assistants, companies, followers and interested in the thematic.