Creating a European Renovation Revolution
WHAT WE ARE DOING AND WHY
BUILD UPON is a community that is leading a shift in the way we approach Europe’s building renovation challenge.
The prosperity and well-being of all Europeans requires our nations to put in place long-term strategies to improve our existing buildings – to ensure their massive impact on our society, economy and environment is properly managed.
During 2016-17 BUILD UPON has brought together a community of over 2,000 diverse organisations at over 100 events across Europe – to explore how to design and implement successful national renovation strategies.
We now need to set out a clear common vision of what we wish to achieve as a region – what each of our countries needs to do to make this a reality – and how we will start to coordinate across hundreds of different initiatives to deliver green buildings for everyone, everywhere.
OUR COMMON VISION
Our vision is a Europe that leads on the building renovation challenge – meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement and improving the lives of millions of citizens through better buildings.
To achieve this, all countries must establish ambitious national renovation strategies – setting out roadmaps to 2050, with clear targets, milestones and measures that support local action.
We commit to unite across sectors and nations to support this vision, and to support the design and implementation of the renovation strategies.
See who supports BUILD UPON's Common Vision and add your support!
OUR NATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS
Each Green Building Council that has led BUILD UPON has run a series of events across their capitals and major cities, consulting expert organisations from the public, private and third sector on what is needed for a successful national renovation strategy.
The result is this series of key national recommendations, providing important insights into how we need to shape Europe’s building renovation market across our diverse region to achieve our vision.
OUR RENOVATION STRATEGY IMPACT FRAMEWORK
BUILD UPON’s ‘RenoWiki’ profiles over 750 major initiatives tackling market barriers to building renovation across Europe – from awareness raising and skills, to finance and regulation. All of these efforts are critical, have advanced significantly in recent years, and must now be coordinated to achieve the scale of change our vision requires. This is the key challenge for the roadmaps, milestones and measures set out under national renovation strategies.
Our draft Renovation Strategy Impact Framework provides an illustrative example of how national renovation strategies can start to take on this coordination challenge. This initial version of the Framework is the result of convening over 160 experts during our Madrid Leaders’ Summit, and is a draft aimed at sparking a debate over how we approach renovation strategies.
Download the draft Renovation Strategy Impact Framework [LINK TO DOWNLOAD PDF] or explore the interactive version below.
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Awareness is being raised across all major target groups (civil society, public sector, private sector) and is leading to concrete actions by members of these target groups.(i) # Awareness raising initiatives targeting each group; (ii) # target audience reached; (iii) # of target audience that can be shown to go on to take concrete action (i.e. citizen taking up a financial initiative, public actor supporting a policy initiative, private sector employee enrolling in a skills initiative – tracked from awareness raising initiatives across into initiatives in these areas).
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Occupants/communities are fully engaged and awareness raised as part of all building energy renovation projects.(i) # occupant & community engagement initiatives supplying resources for projects; (ii) # projects with engagement processes; (iii) # occupants who agree to become community 'ambassadors' for building energy renovation, to amplify awareness.
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Occupants/communities are engaged with the end socio-economic impacts of projects (health, wellbeing affordability, employment etc.).(i) # projects sharing socio-economic with occupants/communities.
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Occupants/communities trust in their local construction supply chain.(i) # Skills & Capacity Building Initiatives aimed at increasing quality of works and customer trust; (ii) national consumer perceptions survey data.
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Industry awareness raising initiatives are effectively engaging those not already engaged in building energy renovation - in particular, raising awareness of the employment opportunities in building energy renovation.(i) # initiatives primarily targeting those who are not already engaged; (ii) # this target audience reached; (ii) # enrolling in a skills initiative.
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Peer to peer learning/resource platforms are established for property owners (residential, commercial, public) and leading to more organisational commitments to ambitious building energy renovation projects.(i) # of organisations participating; (ii) # organisations committing to deep renovation projects.
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Complete construction sector is highly skilled in building energy renovation.# and % of construction sector professionals/workers participating in building energy renovation skills initiatives.
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Increased/improved employment opportunities in building energy renovation.# skills initiatives tracking conversion of training into concrete employment benefits (e.g. new job, greater job security / client satisfaction etc.).
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Construction skills initiatives are producing integrated, multi-disciplinary project teams for building energy renovation projects.# initiatives aimed at integrated, multi-disciplinary working.
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Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in building energy renovation is mandatory, and also integrates relevant soft-skills (i.e. occupant/community engagement processes).# CPD programmes mandating EE/RES renovation and relevant soft-skills (particularly occupant/community engagement).
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Valuation professionals are able to factor in building energy performance to value.(i) # building energy renovation skills initiatives aimed at valuers; (ii) # valuers participating in building energy renovation skills initiatives.
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Total annual investment in building energy renovation reaches €[insert national figure] billion.€ invested by (i) public (ii) private funds.
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Building energy renovation is part of public infrastructure spending, and infrastructure budget implements an EE first policy.% of national infrastructure budget that supports building energy renovations.
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Mortgage lenders are able to offer preferential interest rates/more capital for energy renovated properties.# and € of building energy renovation mortgages issued.
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All renovation projects should use a standardized project development, contracting and measurement and verification process to attract investment, allow for aggregation and make measurement of savings possible.(i) # projects developed using standardized processes; (ii) increase in € invested in areas that adopt standardized process.
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Energy management systems are in place for all publically funded efficiency projects.# projects that have energy management systems.
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Public funding is supporting technical assistance for projects.(i) # project development funds; (ii) # projects supported by these funds.
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Public policy supports building energy renovation and is built on cross-party consensus.(i) # policies supporting building energy renovation; (ii) % that have cross-party support.
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Coherence of national building energy renovation policy.Public authority/industry perception survey on policy coherence.
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Continuous improvement in regulatory minimum building energy renovation standards.Insert national construction standard KPIs.
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Regulatory disincentives to building energy renovation are removed.(i) # rent regulation changes; (ii) # public accounting rule changes.
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City level renovation strategies and cross-sector implementation platforms are set up and integrated with regional/national renovation strategy impact frameworks.(i) # City level cross-sector implementation platforms set up; (ii) # of these platforms integrating with national renovation strategy frameworks.
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[Regional level renovation strategies and cross-sector implementation platforms are set up and integrated with city level / national renovation strategy impact frameworks](i) # Regional level cross-sector implementation platforms set up; (ii) # of these platforms integrating with national renovation strategy frameworks.
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National cross-sector implementation platforms set up, coordinating with city and regional level renovation strategies.(i) Platform set up; (ii) # cities and regions in coordination with it; (iii) # other national platforms (EU) being coordinated with.
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A collaborative rather than competitive market.(i) # organisations involved with implementation platforms; (ii) % of initiatives using and reporting renovation strategy impact framework metrics.
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Peer to peer learning platforms are established for property owners (residential, commercial, public).# of peer to peer learning platforms established.
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Socio-economic outcomes are being measured on building energy renovation projects - and being fed into tracking progress on 2030/50 targets/milestones.Insert project-level health, wellbeing affordability, employment KPIs - e.g. # employment opportunities generated / % short vs long-term employment.
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Exemplary occupant / community engagement processes are part of projects from planning to post-work monitoring, to help secure positive socio-economic outcomes and high occupant satisfaction.# Projects with exemplary engagement processes / % occupant satisfaction levels.
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Increase in organisational commitments to ambitious building energy renovation programmes across property portfolios (public, commercial, residential).# of organisational commitments and depth of targeted environmental savings.
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Public project tenders/procurements require construction teams with recognised skills/CDP in building energy renovation and integrated, multi-disciplinary team working.# projects including these requirements.
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National socio-economic targets (e.g. health, wellbeing, affordable housing, growth, jobs, innovation, culture) from other areas of public policy are integrated within the renovation strategies - and are being measurably supported by building energy renovation projects.Insert macro-level socio-economic indicators from other areas of national public policy that building renovation contributes towards – based on country specific indicators.
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The value of higher performance buildings is significantly outperforming low performance buildings.Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating to value correlation.
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National environmental targets (e.g. GHG reductions, primary/final energy use reduction, resource efficiency) are integrated within the renovation strategies - and are being measurably supported by building energy renovation projects.GHG Emissions Reductions, Primary / Final Energy Savings, Energy Cost Savings, Resource Efficiency etc.
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3% annual rate of building energy renovation.# of projects with recorded EPC improvements.
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Contact Us
If you want to get involved with BUILD UPON, support the common vision, comment on the draft Renovation Strategy Impact Framework, fund activities in the project, or just offer your views on the national renovation strategy challenge – please email us at [email protected]
Join the national renovation strategy debate on social media using the hashtags #BuildUpon and #RenovationRevolution.
