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Volumetric addition & building renovation: Find out more about our technical toolkit!

13 November 2018

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Type of Tool Feasibility Model
Acronym Technical Toolkit
Countries where the tool has been developed Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania
Country where the tool is in use Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Geographic coverage International
Themes Building envelope (walls, windows,...), Energy efficiency technologies and materials, On-site renewable energy sources, Residential buildings, Public and non residential buildings, Very low energy buildings, Thermal comfort, indoor air quality, acoustics, Financing, socio-economics
Conditions of availability Free
Input of the tool Physical building type/geometric characteristics, energy use, energy characteristics, location, ownership,
Output of the tool Determine the best AdoREs scenario for each building.
Strengths The toolkit is designed in Microsoft Excel, easy to use. It contains simple stationary calculations model to assess the building performance before and after renovation, with different AdoRE scenarios. The toolkit considers diversity of the apartment blocks in terms of physical building type (geometry), fuel, use, geography, type of ownership and stakeholders. All necessary data is collected in a data collection sheet, where all the physical, technical, climate and other parameters are acquired.
Target Group Local/regional/national authorities and facilitators, Building professionals, Building occupants
Publisher ABRACADABRA Project
Publisher URL http://www.abracadabra-project.eu/
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Funding description ABRACADABRA is the acronym of a title summarizing the project’s strategy: Assistant Buildings’ addition to Retrofit, Adopt, Cure And Develop the Actual Buildings up to zeRo energy, Activating a market for deep renovation. In fact, ABRACADABRA is based on the prior assumption that non-energy-related benefits play a key role in the deep renovation of existing buildings. In particular, ABRA actions focus on the creation of a substantial increase of the real estate value of the existing buildings through a significant energy and architectural transformation. The central goals of the proposal consist of an important reduction of the pay back time of the interventions, a strengthening of the key investors’ confidence, increasing quality and attractiveness of the existing buildings’ stock and, finally, reaching a concrete market acceleration towards the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings target. The actual investment gap in the deep renovation sector is due to the fact that high investments are required up-front and they are generally characterized by an excessively high degree of risk and long payback times. It is therefore necessary to develop harmonized, concerted and innovative actions to unlock the needed public and private funds, fill the energy efficiency investment gap and ultimately contribute to re-launch the construction market and create new jobs. Therefore, ABRA aims at demonstrating to the key stakeholders and financial investors the attractiveness of a new renovation strategy based on AdoRe, intended as one (or a set of) Assistant Building unit(s) – like aside or façade addictions, rooftop extensions or even an entire new building construction – that adopt the existing buildings (the Assisted Buildings). The creation of these new Assistant Buildings’ Additions integrated with Renewable Energy Sources aims at reducing the initial investment allocated for the deep renovation of the existing building creating an up-grading synergy between old and new. The ABRA strategy results in the implementation of a punctual densification policy that has been proven capable of fostering the investments in deep renovation of the existing built environment throughout Europe. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 696126. The communication reflects only the author’s view and the Research Executive Agency for SMEs is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it cont
Tool languages English
Submitted by: Emmanuelle Causse (UIPI)

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