Dear green builders, I wanted to extend a welcome to our recent addition to the Romania Green Building Council team, Mr. Paul Lannoye.   Paul will serve as our Director of Projects and joining Mr. Dragos Riti as co-Director of our ecoBiblioteca project.   Paul is a highly experienced real estate and construction professional with significant experience […] [...]

In the last meeting that took place in late February at RoGBC headquarters, it was establish what needs to be done to finalize the MEP project for the ecoBiblioteca project according to the new changes in the RoGBC design team. As you know from previous posts, the ecoBiblioteca project will implement, for the first time […] [...]

The ecoBiblioteca project implement, for the first time in Romania (and in Europe) the  Living Building Challenge ecological certification, which is the most accurate system for ecological building certification existing in the world. To be eligible for certification, Living Building Challenge require that the building should be a high energy performance building with energy efficient equipments. According to the technical MEP […] [...]

The RoGBC team would like to wish you “Happy New Year” and all the best for 2013. We hope that this year will bring new and brighter perspective and a successful collaboration with our council. We are proud to present to you a new version of the RoGBC website with a more powerful graphic design […] [...]

We are very pleased to present photos from the Christmas party of the Romania Green Building Council dated December 13, 2012 held at the PZP architecture. Thank you to all who were present. We wish you Merry Christmas and a Sustainable New Year! http://www.flickr.com/photos/25003595@N07/sets/72157632298348965/ [...]

December 20th:  a day for celebrating working together while decorating the RoGBC office with the help of our volunteers. Thank you all for your efforts and work! Merry Green Christmas to everybody!         [...]

As it became a tradition every year, on December 13 Romania Green Building Council  organized the RoGBC holiday party dedicated to members, partners and friends. This year the party was organized at  PZP Arhitectura HQ – one of the most recent members of the council. All members, partners and friends of the RoGBC were invited […] [...]

In order to address Living Building Challenge’s Water Petal, EcoBiblioteca has to reach a zero water level of extraction from public utilities. The water management concept regarding EcoBiblioteca assures that the water needed for daily use is taken from unconventional sources : Groundwater, extracted from well has been tested and proven to be healthy – […] [...]

As EcoBiblioteca project is pursuing the sustainable certification system Living Building Challenge, the renovated building of the library must reach a zero energy consumption level used for heating and cooling the indoor air. Therefore, having a highly thermal-efficient building envelope  is essential. But, in order to maintain the traditional look of the façade, the designers […] [...]

Thermaflex company has been actively involved in “Green Library” project, providing non pollutant solutions that can ensure energy loss reduction and implicitly the decrease of CO2 emissions. To ensure the link between the technical room and the library building, there have been used 2 pre-isulated pipes Flexalen 600, De 32mm, return pipes with a total […] [...]