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This page presents a library of links relating to sustainable refurbishment of high-rise residential buildings. Many of these links have been placed on other pages of this project website where appropriate.

Case studies

• Danish Board of District Heating: "Energy savings by insulation of dwelling house"
• INTEGER project: Glastonbury House
• Spread CD-RES project: case studies
• SUNH (Solar Urban New Housing) leaflet
• Sustaining Towers project: case studies

Project case study partners
• Bulgaria - Sofia Energy Centre
• Hungary - Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungarian language)
• Latvia - Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe (IWO e.V.)
• Portugal - National Institute of Engineering, Technology & Innovation (Portuguese)
• Russia - Velux A/S
• United Kingdom - Enabling Concepts

European projects

• Framework Innovations for Building Renovation (FRAMES)
• Low Cost Social Housing (LOCOSOC)
• OPET-Building - The European network for the promotion of energy technologies in the building sector
• Sustainable Refurbishment Europe (SUREURO)
• WHO survey of housing and health in panel block buildings

Legislation

• DG-Environment website: Århus Convention
• DG-TREN website: European energy market liberalisation - gas | electricity
• EUR-LEX website: Directive on Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making
• EuroACE website: resources on the proposed Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive

Press

• BBC: "Boom! Another net first"
• BBC: "The return of high-rise Britain?"
• Oxford Contemporary Review: "Coping with communism's grim legacy of high-rise buildings"

Reports and best practice

• ACE: Energy efficiency and jobs
• Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation: "Highrises and Multiples" best practice website
• Energy Saving Trust: Energy Efficiency Best Practice in Housing: High-rise
• Ecofys: Mitigation of CO2 Emissions from the Building Stock
• IEA: Cooling Buildings in a Warm Climate
• University of Michigan: Energy efficiency and multi-family housing in Latvia
• VROM: Sustainable Refurbishment of High-Rise Residential Buildings and Restructuring of Surrounding Areas