{"id":419724,"date":"2017-12-20T06:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=615df242b7546cefaf2ef2e5a013944d"},"modified":"2017-12-20T06:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T10:59:22","slug":"nearly-zero-energy-buildings-remain-a-difficult-challenge-for-southern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=419724","title":{"rendered":"Nearly zero-energy buildings remain a difficult challenge for Southern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In coming years, there is a legal commitment for all the countries of Europe to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, which boils down to constructing nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs), buildings that consume the minimum energy. The EU Directive 31\/2010 establishes two key deadlines: All public buildings must be nZEBs from 1 January, 2019, and by 1 January 2021, all new buildings must be nZEBs. &#8220;It is only one year until the first commitment, and yet many countries are a long way from meeting this level of energy efficiency in buildings. The countries that have made the most progress in this challenge are in central and northern Europe,&#8221; explained Juan Mar\u00eda Hidalgo, co-author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In coming years, there is a legal commitment for all the countries of Europe to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, which boils down to constructing nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs), buildings that consume the minimum energy. The EU Directive 31\/2010 establishes two key deadlines: All public buildings must be nZEBs from 1 January, 2019, and by 1 January 2021, all new buildings must be nZEBs. &#8220;It is only one year until the first commitment, and yet many countries are a long way from meeting this level of energy efficiency in buildings. The countries that have made the most progress in this challenge are in central and northern Europe,&#8221; explained Juan Mar&iacute;a Hidalgo, co-author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419725,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419724\/revisions\/419725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}