On the 16th of October 2025, InCUBE partners CERTH and New Energy Coalition co-hosted the webinar “Building Better: LCA in Energy-Efficient Renovation.” The session explored how Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) methodologies can transform the way we evaluate, design, and implement building renovations across Europe.
The webinar opened with an overview of InCUBE’s mission and demo sites across the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy, to familiarize a new audience with the project and its goals.
The focus then shifted to CERTH’s VERIFY innovation, a dynamic digital tool that integrates real-time data to assess the environmental and economic impacts of renovation actions. Unlike conventional static LCA tools, VERIFY captures hourly energy and emissions data, component-specific lifetimes, and actionable insights for smarter decision-making.
Through examples from the InCUBE Spanish demo site, participants gained insight into how VERIFY supports performance optimisation—from monitoring HVAC systems and photovoltaic panels to calculating payback times and carbon footprints. The session concluded with a live demo of the VERIFY tool and an engaging Q&A discussion with experts Eleni Chatzigeorgiou and Andreas Seitaridis from CERTH.
This webinar highlighted the importance of LCA and digital innovation in making Europe’s building stock not only more energy-efficient but also smarter, more circular, and economically sustainable.
