KU Leuven

Type: university
City: Leuven
Country: Belgium
Website: www.kuleuven.be

News & events

Event04 November 2026

Urban Heat at COP31: context-specific pathways for EU buildings, 12 November
Martin presents the context-specific emissions pathways work in a shared 60-minute session on cooling and clean air, alongside submissions from Ecuador, India, Ethiopia and China.
Publication18 September 2026

Context-specific emissions pathways for EU buildings, in Nature Communications
New work with KU Leuven, TU Graz and IIASA on what different decarbonisation pathways mean for the European building stock to 2050.

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Projects we do together

2022–2025European Commission DG GROW

Analysis of Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals of EU Buildings and Construction
Quantified the baseline and the plausible futures for emissions and removals across the EU building stock to 2050.
2024–2026Co-funded by the European Union LIFE programme

INDICATE LIFE - National Building LCA Data and Policy Accelerator
Helps national consortia generate the building LCA data their governments need to set whole life carbon benchmarks and targets.
2022–2024Laudes Foundation

INDICATE National Building LCA Data Accelerator (Pilot)
Piloted the data accelerator in three countries, and showed the approach transfers.
2017–2018European Commission

PEF4Buildings: applying the Product Environmental Footprint method to office buildings
Tested whether the EU's Product Environmental Footprint method works on whole buildings, and set out how benchmarks and performance classes for offices could be defined.
2021–2024European Commission DG ENV

Supporting the Development of a Roadmap for the Reduction of Whole Life Carbon of Buildings
Provided the archetype modelling behind the EU's roadmap for bringing down whole life carbon.

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Publications

Context-specific life cycle emissions pathways for EU buildings and construction
Alaux N, Bechstedt N, Zhong X, Mastrucci A, Ramon D, Steinberger-Maierhofer D, Allacker K, Passer A, Röck M

Nature Communications, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73433-1
Biogenic carbon dioxide storage and mineral carbonation uptake in EU buildings
Steinberger-Maierhofer D, Alaux N, Ramon D, Popek S, Potrč Obrecht T, Kockat J, Zhong X, Mastrucci A, Ruschi Mendes Saade M, Allacker K, Passer A, Röck M

Journal of Environmental Management, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2026.129794
Harmonised database on materials, energy flows and environmental impacts for building archetypes representing the EU27 building stock
Ramon D, Pristerà G, Verhaeghe R, Dalla Valle A, Giorgi S, Alaux N, Steinberger-Maierhofer D, Bechstedt N, Potrč Obrecht T, Van de moortel E, Adams N, Mouton L, Zhang X, Mastrucci A, Hoxha E, Lavagna M, Passer A, Allacker K, Röck M

KU Leuven RDR, 2025. https://doi.org/10.48804/VXJUEW
Analysis of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of EU buildings and construction - analysis of results and implications
Stocker M, Zink V, Marton C, Steinmann J, Toth Z, Graaf L, Koronen C, Alaux N, Röck M

European Commission DG GROW, Publications Office of the European Union, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2873/2247112
Whole-life greenhouse gas emission reduction and removal strategies for buildings
Alaux N, Marten C, Steinman J, Maierhofer D, Mastrucci A, Petrou D, Potrč Obrecht T, Ramon D, Le Den X, Allacker K, Passer A, Röck M

Journal of Environmental Management, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122915
Supporting the development of a roadmap for the reduction of whole life carbon of buildings - final technical report
European Commission DG ENV, Le Den X, Steinmann J, Kovacs A, Kockat J, Röck M, Allacker K, Toth Z

Publications Office of the European Union, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2779/849252
How to establish whole life carbon benchmarks - insights and lessons learned from emerging approaches in Ireland, Czechia and Spain
Toth Z, Broer R, Graaf L, Röck M

INDICATE, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21105104

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KU Leuven

News & events

Urban Heat at COP31: context-specific pathways for EU buildings, 12 November

Context-specific emissions pathways for EU buildings, in Nature Communications

Projects we do together

Analysis of Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals of EU Buildings and Construction

INDICATE LIFE - National Building LCA Data and Policy Accelerator

INDICATE National Building LCA Data Accelerator (Pilot)

PEF4Buildings: applying the Product Environmental Footprint method to office buildings

Supporting the Development of a Roadmap for the Reduction of Whole Life Carbon of Buildings

Publications