Building energy efficient communities

18 Jun 2019

In many EU countries multi-family dwellings represent the dominant residential solution. But structural renovations to cut emissions and save energy may be a real challenge in such contexts, if the communities are not properly involved in the process

In most EU countries, half of the residential stock was built before the introduction of thermal regulations. But building renovation is particularly challenging for multi-family dwellings, where socio-economic conditions often represent a barrier. The only approach is to involve people from the beginning.

This is what some families have experienced in a block of flats in Zaragoza, one of the demonstration sites of the European project BuildHeat. A social worker helped the tenants to accept the changes, which is something quite innovative in this kind of project.

 

 

By Claudio Rocco

18 June 2019

Fifth BUILDHEAT NEWSLETTER – February 2020 – Goodbye!

1 Feb 2020 - Welcome to the fifth and final edition of BuildHeat Newsletter!BuildHeat project is about to end after developing reliable, energy-efficient and affordable retrofit solutions for multifamily houses. In this last period, we have achieved several technical results relating to the integration of the heating and cooling solutions that we have developed, and we have also focused on the dissemination of our results.In particular, we have organized conferences, workshops, ... read more
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