Funder: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
date_range Duration: from 01 June 2012 to 30 June 2016 (49 months) Finished
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Of European scope. It has been granted under a regime of Competitive.

In collaboration with other entities. Role: Member

Industrial estates have sprung up all over Europe as commerce has grown during the last 50 years. These areas can bring great benefit as the powerhouses of local economies and help to provide prosperity and employment, but they can also bring difficult environmental headaches. In Murcia, Spain, where this project is based, there are more than 70 industrial parks in a region of 11 300 km2. Across Europe, the majority of these industrial areas are characterised by low-efficiency energy performance and by high CO2 emissions. Improving the sustainability of such areas is already a focus of environmental concern in the EU, with increasing recognition that an inability to adapt and innovate can leave them vulnerable, with consequent risk to economic growth and local employment. However, there are many challenges for improving the environmental performance of such industrial estates. he overall objective of the 'ENERING' project is to demonstrate sound environmental and economically-feasible solutions to reduce CO2 emissions in industrial estates. Some work will be based on design or adaptation of buildings. Other strategies will include use of passive, renewable and/or residual energy to meet some of the communal electricity requirements on the estates. The project will not only include individual solutions but also management action affecting a whole industrial estate. The project aims to demonstrate the economic and environmental feasibility of different solutions for the desi

Call: CONVOCATORIA EUROPEA (EUROPEAN COMMISSION)

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