ABRACADABRA is a three-year Horizon 2020 project focuses on the market up-take on energy efficiency and is coordinated by the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. ABRACADABRA stands for Assistant Buildings’ addition to Retrofit, Adopt, Cure And Develop the Actual Buildings up to ze...[more]
In February 2014, the European Union adopted a revised version of the Public Procurement Directive, which lays down the rules for competitive tendering of public contracts. ACE marks the deadline for Member States to transpose the provisions of the modernised Directive into national law by...[more]
At the last ACE General Assembly, Mr Luciano Lazzari’s mandate as ACE President was renewed for further two-year term. The ACE Executive Board membership was also partly renewed. On 22 and 23 January 2016, the Architects’ Council of Europe held its deferred second General Assembly of 2015 (G...[more]
On 30 November, ACE President Luciano Lazzari delivered the closing speech for the symposium "Architecture, the Climate of the Future". Mr Lazzari's intervention focused on the global warming issue, highlighting the responsibilities of architects in tackling climate change and adapting bui...[more]
Opening speech by Sylvia Pinel, French Minister of Territorial Equality and Housing, during the Seminar "Architecture, the Climate of the Future" co-organized in the context of the COP 21 by the Architects' Council of Europe (ACE), the International Union of Archit...[more]