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Dec 11th 2025
Active Energy Control in a Residential Building Using Digital Twin Technology

Introduction The EU-funded ENSNARE project, which has recently concluded, set out to accelerate deep renovation and decarbonisation of Europe’s building stock through innovative...

Oct 30th 2025
IES Advancing Resilience and Net-Zero at Sustainable Places 2025

Sustainable Places (SP25) once again proved to be one of Europe’s leading events for collaboration and innovation in the built environment. Bringing together researchers, industry...

Jul 10th 2025
IES at the Forefront of Next-Generation Energy Certificates with SmartLivingEPC

The global push towards a climate-neutral future has placed the building sector under an intense spotlight. Responsible for approximately 40% of energy consumption and 36% of...

Apr 16th 2025
IES R&D Project ‘Minority Report’ Named in Top 10 Horizon Europe Deep Tech Innovations

I’m delighted to announce that the EU funded ‘Minority Report’ project, led by IES R&D, has been recognised as number 8 in the Top 10 Horizon Europe Deep Tech Projects...

Feb 27th 2025
IES R&D Backs EU Project on District Heating & Cooling

IES R&D is excited to be working on a ground-breaking EU funded project that looks set to transform the future of district heating and cooling (DHC) networks across...

Sep 19th 2024
Reducing Building Emissions Post-Retrofit with Digital Twins

Digital Twin technology has the potential to reduce operational building emissions by 30%  globally. However, recent studies show its integration into retrofitting practices...

Sep 17th 2024
Building Energy Resilience on Ukraine’s Dnipro River

As a member of Ro3kvit - a coalition of professionals who have united to create knowledge and methodologies for rebuilding Ukraine’s urban and rural areas and infrastructure - IES...

Jul 9th 2024
TwinERGY Project Showcases Application of IES Digital Twin Technology for Demand Response Optimisation

As the EU Horizon 2020 funded project, TwinERGY, draws to a close, IES R&D are excited to share some final outputs from the project, which has empowered citizens across four...

Apr 30th 2024
Digital Twin Validates Brussels Airport Net-Zero via Stargate

IES has used its digital twin technology to demonstrate the potential for Brussels Airport Company's buildings to reach net-zero emissions by 2030, drastically accelerating...

Sep 25th 2023
Budapest’s 18th Municipality District Level Energy Modelling

As part of the EU Horizon 2020 funded project, StepUP, IES have created a large scale district model encompassing 114 buildings within the Municipality of the 18th District of...

May 18th 2023
Digital twin R&D pilot projects for Airbus and Toyota pave way for sustainable manufacturing

A large R&D project called THERM was carried out in 2010 and 2011, funded by Innovate UK who were then known as the Technology Strategy Board. The project aim was to address...

Jan 25th 2023
IES Digital Twin Powers iBECOME Intelligent Buildings

We spend 80%-90% of our time inside a building and poor indoor comfort and wellbeing is a common challenge. More than 40% of energy and 36% of emissions are attributed to...

Jan 25th 2023
SunHorizon R&D: IES Builds Highly Accurate Digital Twins

SunHorizon is a Research & Development project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The project involves 21 partners from 11 EU...

Jan 10th 2023
Digital Twins Boost Efficiency & Waste Heat Use in Italy

IES have been working with a distillery in Northern Italy, using their ICL digital twin technology to help the factory better understand and optimise their energy consumption,...

Jun 21st 2022
EU Pilot Sites show how Digital Twins can support building retrofits

As coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 project, StepUP, IES are helping to develop affordable solutions aimed at transforming the energy renovation market and making the...

Aug 25th 2021
Tech Package to Support Citizen Energy Communities

The Lightness project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, aims to empower citizens to generate, share and sell renewable energy to contribute to...