OPEN HOUSE

The new version of the OPEN HOUSE Assessment Methodology is ONLINE !!!

You can download it here:http://www.openhouse-fp7.eu/assets/files/OPEN_HOUSE_AG1.2.pdf

The OPEN HOUSE launch event was held on the 25th of July in Brussels. Many thanks to all participants for their active contribution and good mood :)

You can now find all presentations of the event on the website: http://www.openhouse-fp7.eu/

The OPEN HOUSE consortium would like to invite you to the launch event of the OPEN HOUSE methodology the 25th of July in Brussels.

This launch event is an unique opportunity to:
- learn about the OPEN HOUSE methodology,
- see how it embodies the principles of transparency and openness,
- hear how it has been successfully applied to 68 buildings,
- find out about the resources that are available to implement the methodology throughout the EU
- understand how it is related to other European initiatives

The registration is open until the 19th of July.

Please find attached the agenda of the meeting as well as further information.

The Final OPEN HOUSE dissemination event will take place in Brussels on the 25th of July 2013! This will be a unique opportunity to get to know the OPEN HOUSE methodology and its validation in more than 65 buildings across Europe. Save the date!

The OPEN HOUSE consortium would like your input in establishing the weighting across the range of issues covered within the methodology.

We hope you will help us by sparing a few minutes to let us know which aspects of sustainability are most important to you, by filling in this survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GOCm3e9EjVbjrp2E3Jz2hvFZuzIgcUS60aksozfIih8/viewform

International Weighting Survey We have developed a number of indicators across a wide range of sustainability aspects and we would like your input in establishing the weighting across the range of issues covered within the methodology.

OPEN HOUSE will be presented at the sb13 munich conference (www.sb13-munich.com). This conference is part of a series of international sustainable building conferences and will take place from April 24 to 26 2013.

More information about the OPEN HOUSE Special Forum can be found here: www.sb13-munich.com/programme/workshops/student-competition.html

OPEN HOUSE was kindly invited to participate in the final SuPerBuildings Workshop (http://www.superbuildings.eu/) which was held in Brussels on the 18th of December 2012. Thank you for the interesting discussion :)

http://www.superbuildings.eu/

OPEN HOUSE presentations in IALCCE 2012 in Vienna.

The Third International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2012) holds a special session on "Sustainability certification of new and of existing buildings" on Friday the 5th of October 2012. Three presentations about OPEN HOUSE will be done to introduce the assessment framework, the assessment tools & process and results from case studies.

More information on: https://ialcce2012.boku.ac.at/
Detailed program:https://ialcce2012.boku.ac.at/fileadmin/draft_program.pdf

IALCCE 2012: Home Information on Third international Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering

Open House workshop in Madrid
The OPEN HOUSE Consortium is currently holding a two-day workshop in Madrid to discuss dissemination and communication strategies of the OPEN HOUSE consortium.

Nils Larsson, Executive Director of iiSBE, is presenting iiSBE and the SBTool this morning at the Open House workshop in Genoa:
http://goo.gl/pXN1O

April update: newsletter and upcoming events | International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Envi Attached below you'll find the March newsletter that was distributed to iiSBE members, plus an useful outlook at several events of interest that will take place in the upcoming months.

The OPEN HOUSE Consortium is currently holding a two-day workshop in Genoa to present the progress of the project and discuss the review progress of the 67 case studies going on all over Europe

OPEN HOUSE is on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4514604

Open House | LinkedIn Benchmarking and mainstreaming building sustainability on the EU based on transparency and openness (open source and availability) policies from model to implementation