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PROBONO, a Horizon 2020 project dedicated to demonstrating sustainable and people-centred building renovation through a network of Living Labs across Europe, has generated valuable lessons not only about innovation itself, but also about what it takes to deliver it. When a research project sets out to renovate a building, retrofit a neighbourhood, or build something genuinely new in the physical world, the hard part is rarely the idea. The idea is usually brilliant, which is

PROBONO developed a card-based workshop tool, the Placemaking Maptivity, to translate the ISO 37101 sustainability framework into a practical, collaborative planning experience for cities. Developed across four European countries with support from three EU-funded projects, it has now been prepared in a peer-reviewed submission. The team, from industry and academia, across four European countries has developed a new methodology to help cities turn sustainability goals into coo

Numerical tools developed by ITA within PROBONO project to improve thermal comfort and energy performance of buildings were presented at IC2: Innovation Industry Construction Congress celebrated 1-5 June. The current shift toward green building development requires the accurate design of HVAC systems and building envelope solutions, with digitalization serving as a key enabling technology in this transition. HVAC4People is a set of tools based on open-source solutions which a