Workshop 4 – Deep renovation of residential public building stock and social housing

Location: Sala del Capitolo in San Domenico Maggiore, Naples

Date: 20th January 2016

Main topic

The workshop deals with the deep renovation of public building stock, specifically social housing. This part of the public building stock it is old and unefficient to guarantee increasing needs of social housing, as well as  is not suitable to provide high quality standards of living and efficient energy use.

Main barriers

Among the main barriers that reduce the number of deep energy interventions are the scarce capacity of  channelling public funding to implement long term refurbishment programs and the lack of initial resources to make investments in this sense. The large number of involved stakholders, local public administrations, building firms and dwellers,  and the lack of  common views among them limite the spread of uniform projects above all in multy property buildings. Lack of building maintenance together with a shallow control on competences of designers and firms that implements building works reduce the quality of renovation and the satisfaction of performance requirements.

Expected results

The final aim of the dialogue is understanding existing problems and different stakeholders’ point view, as a base to define coordinated measures, to support the definition of a agreed policy on the implementation of residential public buildings. Shared priorities shall be defined by whole stakeholders, taking into account co-benefits of deep renovation for urban areas, in order to make appropriate strategic choices for the residential stock.