The European Commission today registered a European citizens’ initiative entitled “HouseEurope! Power to Renovation” (HouseEurope! Power to Renovation). The aim of the initiative is to create incentives for the renovation and transformation of existing buildings. The organizers are asking the Commission to propose legislation to incentivize the reuse of existing buildings, based on the following: […]
LIFE: Setting up facilitation structures to accelerate the renovation wave in the public sector
Objective The public sector plays a key role in delivering the energy transition, with a unique mandate over their public assets and a unique convening power on actors across the value chain. The European Green Deal’s Renovation Wave aims to double the renovation rate of buildings by 2030, which requires also massive investment into the public […]
LIFE: Integrated Home Renovation Services
Objective Building refurbishment can be particularly cumbersome in private housing and there are many barriers discouraging homeowners from taking the investment decision. Notably, the market offer for building renovation in the private residential sector is fragmented, composed of a myriad of micro and small companies, and mostly uncoordinated. Based on good practices and successful models […]
LIFE Programme: Large-scale rollout of industrialised deep renovation solutions
Objective: The aim of this topic is to facilitate a greater market uptake and large-scale rollout of holistic, industrialised deep renovation solutions for buildings, thereby supporting the implementation of the EU Renovation Wave strategy. Industrial approaches to deep renovation have been shown to result in many benefits including faster, higher quality construction; less disruption to […]
One-stop-shops for building renovation
The renovation of buildings can bring economic and financial benefits while improving the health and wellbeing of owners, tenants and communities, and contributing to the targets and objectives of energy efficiency. In order to achieve a climate-neutral building stock, 90% of existing buildings in the EU with no renovation or superficial ‘shallow’ renovation should be […]