International keynote

Adrian Joyce is the Secretary General of Efficient Buildings Europe, whose members are Europe’s leading companies that provide the products, equipment, and services that go together to create highly energy efficient buildings.  Efficient Buildings Europe monitors the work of the EU Institutions and consistently calls for an ambitious EU policy and legislation framework that will deliver highly energy efficient, decarbonised, and flexible buildings by 2050. It also works to ensure the establishment of the market conditions that will encourage, among other things, a significant increase in energy-related renovations to existing buildings.

Adrian is also the Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign, which was initiated by Efficient Buildings Europe in 2011 to stop energy waste in buildings.  Its ambition is to rapidly accelerate the deep energy renovation of the building stock in the EU to reach 3% per year by 2030 and to keep it at that rate until 2050.  The Campaign now counts more than 50 partners from across the EU.

Adrian is a professionally qualified architect who, having graduated from University College Dublin in 1984, spent 17 years in private practice (working in the UK, France, and Belgium and in his native country, Ireland) before getting involved full-time in architectural policy.  He was, for 18 months commencing in January 2002, the Practice Director of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland before moving to Brussels to join the staff at the Secretariat of the Architects’ Council of Europe where he became Director before leaving in July 2011. He was Chairman of the Coalition for Energy Savings, which represents around 15 million EU citizens through its members, from May 2017 to December 2020.

Adrian holds a part-time post teaching Construction Technology at the Catholic University of Louvain-le-Neuve, Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urbanism – LOCI.