Title: BUILDSPACE: Enabling Innovative Space-driven Services for Energy Efficient Buildings and Climate Resilient Cities
Authors: Stamatia Rizou, Vaggelis Marinakis, Gema Hernández Moral, Carmen Sánchez-Guevara, Luis Javier Sánchez-Aparicio, Ioannis Brilakis, Vasileios Baousis, Tijs Maes, Vassileios Tsetsos, Marco Boaria, Piotr Dymarski, Michail Bourmpos, Petra Pergar, and Inga Brieze
Description: BUILDSPACE aims to couple terrestrial data from buildings (collected by IoT platforms, BIM solutions and other) with aerial imaging from drones equipped with thermal cameras and location annotated data from satellite services (i.e., EGNSS and Copernicus) to deliver innovative services for the building and urban stakeholders and support informed decision making towards energyefficient buildings and climate resilient cities. The platform will allow integration of these heterogeneous data and will offer services at building scale, enabling the generation of high fidelity multi-modal digital twins and at city scale providing decision support services for energy demand prediction, urban heat and urban flood analysis. The services will enable the identification of environmental hotspots that increase pressure to local city ecosystems and raise probability for natural disasters (such as flooding) and will issue alerts and recommendations for action to local governments and regions (such as the support of policies for building renovation in specific vulnerable areas). BUILDSPACE services will be validated and assessed in four European cities with different climate profiles. The digital twin services at building level will be tested during the construction of a new building in Poland, and the city services validating the link to digital twin of buildings will be tested in 3 cities (Piraeus, Riga, Ljubljana) across EU. BUILDSPACE will create a set of replication guidelines and blueprints for the adoption of the proposed applications in building resilient cities at large.
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Date: 13-15 June 2023
Location: Lulea, Sweden
Session: Leveraging Earth Observation Data to support energy efficiency and the European Green Deal
Presentation: Enabling Innovative Space-driven Services for Energy Efficient Buildings and Climate Resilient Cities, Dr. rer. nat. Stamatia Rizou
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Date: 19-20 April 2023
Location: Rome, Italy
Session: Copernicus for Energy Efficiency
Presentation: BUILDSPACE core concepts and objectives, Dr. rer. nat. Stamatia Rizou
More information: Concerted Action EPBD Enabling the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
Date: 07-09 November 23
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Session: Digital pathways for Sustainable and Climate-resilient urban future
Session format: Presentations + Panel discussion
Session Description: The session focused on how digital tools can be leveraged to support energy efficient buildings and climate resilient cities. The case of BUILDSPACE project was presented, where digital services are being developed utilizing cutting-edge technologies, such as satellite data analysis, digital twins, virtual and augmented reality (AR/VR), and drones. The session included a panel discussion with interactive elements about the adoption and uptake of digital solutions for sustainable and climate resilient cities.
More information: https://www.smartcityexpo.com/
Date: 06 March 2024
Location: Madrid, Spain
Date: 24-27 May 2023
Location: Athens, Greece
Description: The Green Transition and Circular Economy in Local Government is a scientific conference organised by the Panhellenic Union of General Secretaries.
Date: 24 May 2023
Location: Rimske, Slovenia
Description: At the two-day event Water Days Symposium, the most important professional event in the field of water management in Slovenia, project partner IMZI promoted the BUILDSPACE Project and managed to engage external interested stakeholders by inviting them to co-creation sessions and BUILDSPACE community.
More information: https://sdzv-drustvo.si/en/water-days/
Date: 19 October 2023
Location: Slovenia
Description: At the third Slovenian Water Congress, an international symposium, the project partner IMZI presented the BUILDSPACE Project within the framework of two round tables and informal conversations.
More information: https://kongresvode.si/
Date: 25 January 2024
Location: Athens, Greece
Description: During the workshop, project partner NTUA presented the BUILDSPACE Project with a focus on modern IT applications for intelligent energy management.
Date: 11 April 2024
Location: Turin, Italy
Description: It is a key event to exchange best practices related to tools, strategies, and policy instruments for promoting greener territories and engaging citizens in the transition. Project partner ALDA presented the BUILDSPACE Project as an example of good practice for co-creation sessions.
More information: https://green-living-areas.interreg-euro-med.eu/events/green-living-areas-thematic-community-kick-off-event/
Date: 16 April 2024
Location: Vienna, Austria
Description: During the General Assembly 2024 of the European Geosciences Union, project partners SingularLogic and ECMWF presented BUILDSPACE Core Platform as part of the session titled "Seamless transitioning between HPC and cloud in support of Earth Observation, Earth Modeling, and community-driven Geoscience approach PANGEO“.
More information: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-15366.html
Date: 17 May 2024
Location: Piraeus, Greece
Description: Presentation of the modern operating framework of the Civil Protection Service of the Municipality of Piraeus in order to highlight its capabilities in dealing with extreme natural phenomena, but also in terms of the readiness of the Services for the Protection of People and the Environment, against natural disasters, through the strict requirements of ISO certifications. The Service's functions and the Municipality's involvement in BUILDSPACE were presented.
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Date: 17 July 2024
Location: Chania, Crete, Greece
Description: The IISA conference series is an international forum for researchers and professionals in all areas of Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications. This year, the conference invited submissions of papers presenting high-quality research and developments. NTUA, as a BUILDSPACE partner, evaluated heat-related vulnerabilities using the Future Heat Risk Index (FHRI) for Attica, Greece and presented a study, on the use of climate change protections (RCP 8.5 for 2040) and spatial analysis, to identify high-risk areas and propose mitigation strategies such as vegetation enhancement and cold material installation.
More information: https://easyconferences.eu/iisa2024/
Date: 8 October 2024
Location: online
Description: During the online event, BUILDSPACE was presented by the lead partner SingularLogic highlighting how the project leverages on earth observation data and EGNSS to deliver its services and support sustainable and resilient buildings in urban environments.
More information: https://www.euspa-ucp.eu/
Date: 15 October 2024
Location: Darmstadt, Germany
Description: The event brings together current and potential users of Destination Earth (DestinE) and DestinE systems developers. ECMWF, as a project partner, presented BUILDSPACE as an innovative project which seeks to align with EGNSS specifications and Copernicus services and to synchronise with the advances of DestinE, targeting Digital Twin technologies and data federation mechanisms.
More information: https://destination-earth.eu/event/3rd-destination-earth-user-exchange/
Date: 18 October 2024
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Description: The event focused on how spatial planning can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. During the conference, project partner IMZI presented the results of BUILDSPACE and its role within the project, as well as a proposal for a hydrological indicator to assess the capacity of urban space to retain normal precipitation.
More information: https://www.dupps.si/Novice/sedlarjevo-srecanje-utrinki/
Date: 23 - 24 October 2024
Location: Athens, Greece
Description: The event brings together professionals, academics and specialists in the field of geoinformatics. NTUA, as a project partner, presented the publication “Assessing adoption level of solar PV installations, on district scale of urban environment” and the photovoltaic potential map of Riga, Latvia, which was developed in the context of the BUILDSPACE project.
More information: https://www.marathondata.gr/nea/oloklirothike-me-epitychia-i-synantisi-christon-arcgis-elladas-kyprou-2024/
Date: 5 - 7 November 2024
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Description: The SCEWC is a global event for cities and urban innovations and this year BUILDSPACE took part in two different panels. On 5 November, the project was introduced during the Agora session on “Digitalisation for a Sustainable and Resilient Future for Cities”, in which panelists highlighted key European policies and discussed digital solutions like digital twins, city services, and smart connectivity infrastructure. On 6 November, BUILDSPACE was presented within the “EU Space for Sustainable Urban Future” Booth session, which focused on how space earth observation data and services can be used to deliver innovative services for smart cities.
More information: https://www.smartcityexpo.com/
Date: 29 November 2024
Location: Athens, Greece
Description: The event brings together academics, professionals, researchers, students and public entities to explore the latest developments in GIS and data management. NTUA, as a project partner, presented the scientific article “Multi-Criteria GIS-based offshore wind farm site selection: Case study in Greece, published within the framework of the BUILDSPACE project.
More information: https://hellasgi.gr/activities/conferences/
Date: 6 March 2024
Description: The aim of the seminar was to discuss indicators and methodologies for risk and vulnerability assessment by established experts. As a result, it was possible to contrast the different points of view on these issues, emphasising the work done in BUILDSPACE. This is in line with Obj 5 of the project.
Date: 09/04/2024
Description: The seminar was organised by Local Action Groups in Riga Region. Head of Project Department Ms. Inga Brieze presented all RPR energy efficiency project ideas, aims, target audience and planned results, clarified the impact, including BUILDSPACE project.
More information: https://rpr.gov.lv/ceturta-pop-up-pasakuma-tema-rigas-regiona-uznemejiem-energoefektivitate/
Date: 13 to 15-May-24
Description: ALDA’s General Assembly is a yearly key event that involves both staff, members and partners of ALDA. BUILDSPACE was presented as an on-going project that aims to provide energy-efficient solutions for buildings and cities. This is in line with Obj 5 of the project.
More information: https://www.alda-europe.eu/events/local-democracy-for-global-impact-alda-festival-and-general-assembly-2024/
Date: 15/04/2025
Description: Public webinar, part of the Horizon Results Booster, to disseminate the objectives and progress of BUILDSPACE and 100KTrees projects as part of the COSPACE group
More information: https://youtu.be/y_4nUkvSeF4
Date: 13/08/2024
Description: This talk explored the cutting-edge technology of Digital Twins in urban planning, focusing on how automation can generate accurate 3D models of buildings for city-scale applications. It was possible to emphasise the work done in BUILDSPACE. This is in line with Obj 5 of the project.
More information: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7227351267906326529/
Date: 22/01/2025
Description: Congress of the Spanish Association of Climatology. Participation in the Session 09 "Development of climate services, practicalities" with the presentation of the SE3 of BUILDSPACE. Carla Rodríguez Alonso (CARTIF) in her presentation highlighted how the SE3 estimates the current and future energy demand (heating, cooling and domestic hot water) of residential buildings under different climate scenarios (CMIP6: SSP245, SSP370 and SSP585) for 2030, 2040 and 2050. She also presented the results from the pilot implementation in Riga, Latvia, where the tool identifies priority areas for retrofitting and compares the impact of different adaptation measures under projected climate conditions.
More information: http://eventos.ucm.es/go/XIIIAEC
Date: 24/01/2025
Description: The congress fostered interdisciplinary dialogue between natural and social sciences and produced technical recommendations and case studies to inform national and regional policies and guide climate-resilient strategies. A significant output of the congress was the compilation of technical recommendations and case studies, intended to inform national and regional policies and guide the implementation of climate-resilient strategies.
More information: https://aeclim.org/actividades/congresos-aec/
Date: 21/02/2025
Description: NTUA participated in Session IV: Climate and Technology – Innovations for a Sustainable Future, in a panel discussion exploring how AI, green technologies, and digital solutions can address climate challenges.
More information: https://inzeb.org/events/eu-climate-pact-national-event-2025/
Date: 9/4/2025
Description: Iason C. Dimitriou participated as a GIS specialist and part of the NTUA team, presenting the recent publication and PV potential map which was developed in the context of the BUILDSPACE Horizon project, highlighting the findings of the study titled: Assessing the adoption level of solar PV installations, on district scale of urban environment. The presentation, as well as the published paper, can be found here.
More information: https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/international-imgis/overview
Date: 2/05/2025
Description: Marica Antonacci participated in the EGU General Assembly 2025, presenting a poster on the BUILDSPACE Horizon Project titled "Cloud-Powered Earth Observation Tools for Urban Resilience: The BUILDSPACE Project." The poster illustrated how the project integrates Earth Observation data with cloud and satellite technologies to address urban challenges such as climate adaptation and energy efficiency, with a focus on its cloud-native infrastructure and validation activities across four European cities.
More information: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-10977.html
Date: 3/06/2025
Description: ECMWF’s presented a paper, assuring the project’s dissemination with the wider research community.
More information: https://whova.com/
Date: 5/06/2025
Description: As part of the Buildspace project, a technical seminar was held to foster academic exchange between the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Date: 13/06/2025
Description: The study “Integrating socio-economic dimensions into climate-resilience assessment of building stock: a case on marginalized groups in Athens”, conducted within the BUILDSPACE project, was presented during this conference. The study presents an urban heat evaluation methodology that combines remote sensing and socioeconomic data from statistical agencies.
More information: https://metrolivenv.org/
Date: 25/06/2025
Description: ECMWF’s presented a paper, ensuring the project’s dissemination with the Copernicus and DestinE communities
More information: https://lps25.esa.int/
Date: 7/07/2025
Description: In the presentation, the Urban Weather for Energy Calculations (UWEC) was introduced as a new approach to integrate urban climate data into Building Energy Modelling. UWEC provides predefined sets of urban weather files that reflect the intra-urban heat variability within cities, standardising how climate data is used in energy assessments.
More information: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/ICUC12/ICUC12-446.html
Date: 9/07/2025
Description: Part of the methodology explored and presented in this work was developed within the framework of the BUILDSPACE project.
More information: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/ICUC12/ICUC12-373.html
Date: 23/10/2025
Description: The workshop showcased real-life examples from across Europe, highlighting how BUILDSPACE co-created solutions for greener, smarter cities. BUILDSPACE had a stand to present live the solutions developed.
Date: 28/10/2025
Description: It was held on 28–29 October and organised by CIEMAT (Alberto Martilli, Benoit Beckers). The workshop provided an opportunity to disseminate BUILDSPACE concepts and approaches related to building–city interactions and urban physics, and to exchange knowledge with the research community
Date: 31/10/2025
Description: The webinar “New Perspectives on 3D Point Clouds in the Heritage Field” explored how the integration of artificial intelligence with advanced 3D documentation techniques is transforming heritage research and conservation. SE2 presented the Greece model as an example of practical application of these methodologies.
More information: https://sciforum.net/event/Topics-44?subscribe§ion=
Date: 4-6/11/2025
Description: One of the biggest world congresses brought together the public and private sectors, which aims to promote greener, safer initiatives and more efficient urban spaces. BUILDSPACE was part of a joint booth and a session to disseminate BUILDSPACE
More information: https://www.smartcityexpo.com/
Date: 3/12/2025
Description: During a session dedicated to blue-green infrastructure, Nataša Sirnik presented the BUILDSPACE project results in the SE5 scope, which were piloted in the Ljubljana Urban Region (pilot 4), as well as a tool for analysing flood vulnerability and resilience in cities, to a large audience in the packed hall of the National House in Maribor.
More information: https://www.gov.si/dogodki/2025-12-03-36-misicev-vodarski-dan/
