Renovation Summit – Day 2

17-11-2022

The morning session on day 2 will be designed as a space to bring socially-fit innovative solutions to challenges related to the renovation and decarbonisation of cities and the affordable housing sector. In the second half of the day, technical and technological innovations that can be scaled up to fast-track the affordable and sustainable district renovation will be put on the table for discussion.

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Tenants, residents, social and affordable housing providers, and cities faced the impact of the coronavirus, have been struggling to welcome Ukrainians fleeing their country, and paying incredibly high energy bills and construction materials. We do live in extremely turbulent times.

However, legislative, financial, and soft measures backed up with solid innovation can still ensure a smooth energy transition for homes and neighbourhoods in Europe.

The time to draft socially-just smart regulation is now.

Let’s do this collectively to make sure that even the voices of those who are busy choosing between basic needs are being heard.

Two years ago, in the middle of the pandemic, not-for-profit housing providers showed ambition – to renovate 4 million social and affordable homes by 2030.

Only six months later, Housing Europe and the International Union for Tenants (IUT) organised the very first Renovation Summit in May 2021, calling for a fair, inclusive, green energy transition that achieves decarbonisation while preserving social fairness and affordability.

🎯Good practices showed that this is mission possible.

Who? How? By when?

⌛️The second edition of the Renovation Summit organised by the European Affordable Housing Consortium: Sustainable Housing for Social Impact (SHAPE-EU), Housing Europe, the European Construction, built environment and energy efficient building Technology Platform (ECTP), and Eurocities will bring vital questions and answers to the surface.

On Day 2, the Opengela project team is eager to share results and discuss how to improve one-stop-shops and (re)discover other examples of Integrated Homes Renovation Services in Europe.

The two-day event on November, 16th and 17th is arranged in partnership with the European Committee of the Regions and House of Dutch Provinces.

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The European Union is facing a deep energy crisis. Governments so far reacted by supporting demand – through price caps or subsidies – but this will only go so far.

As the Finnish Prime-Minister Sanna Marin recently argued, Europe has relied too much and for too long on external unreliable sources of energy. In the medium term, only a fair green transition can increase our autonomy and reclaim our supply chain’s resilience, whilst achieving our common target of carbon neutrality by 2050.

This session is designed as a space to bring innovative policy solutions to challenges related to the renovation and decarbonisation of cities and the affordable housing sector. In particular the Policy Lab will look at EU policies related to the European Green Deal which will influence the renovation of affordable housing districts.

11:00 – 11:15
Introduction to SHAPE-EU’s Policy Lab
The trilemma of decarbonisation in the social housing sector: affordability, environmental sustainability, availability
Bent Madsen, President of Housing Europe

11:15 – 12:00
Best practices of affordable energy-efficient districts
Inge Strassl, Project Manager, SIR Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung & Wohnen
Carles Mas, Project Coordinator at INCASOL
Joke Dockx, Head of the Sustainable Building Promotion at Bruxelles Environnement

12:00 – 13:00
Opportunities, threats of political-economic-regulatory context for innovation in renovation moderated by Julien Dijol, Housing Europe
Pau Garcia, Policy Officer, DG ENER
Sven Van Elst, General Manager of ASTER
Silvia Ganzerla, Policy Director, EUROCITIES
Barbara Steenbergen, Member of the Executive Committee & Head EU office of the International Union of Tenants (IUT)

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13:00 – 14:00 Lunch at the Committee of the Regions, 5th floor PROVIDED BY THE OPENGELA PROJECT

After lunch, participants can opt for one of the two parallel sessions that will take place in two different locations

Home renovation is a journey that many homeowners dread to take. Nevertheless, Europe’s energy crisis urges us to take action immediately. Opengela, like other One-Stop-Shop programmes, has proved to its population that renovation can be for anyone and everyone, thus contributing to the regeneration of the neighbourhoods of Otxarkoaga (Bilbao) and Txonta (Eibar) inspiring more cities and regions to follow.

Like all good things, Opengela, as an EU-project, has ended. It is time to draw conclusions and reflect on the results and what has been accomplished, and Opengela has a lot to show.
Whether a long-time fan or a neophyte, the project team is eager to share its results with you and discuss how to improve one-stop-shops and (re)discover other examples of Integrated Homes Renovation Services in Europe.

14:00 – 14:15
Welcoming by María Ángeles Elorza Zubiria, Basque Committee of the Regions member

14:15 – 15:00
Final results of Opengela
Ignacio de la Puerta, Basque Government
Txari Vallejo, VVMM Bilbao
Ibon Irazola, Debegesa

15:00 – 15:45
Good practices of one-stop-shops across Europe

15:45 – 16:00
Coffee break

16:00 – 16:55
How to improve one-stop-shops in the EU?
Moderated by Julien Dijol, Policy Director at Housing Europe

16:55 – 17:00
Closing remarks

Opengela has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 846707.

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Technological innovation is a key enabler of a fair energy transition.

Action is required in several fronts, from scaling up clean energy technology and energy efficiency solutions that are already commercially viable to introducing new solutions that are either not yet developed or even known to the market.

As the World Energy Forum puts it, achieving the 2050 target requires “nothing short of an innovation tsunami”.

This session is dedicated to presenting and discussing technical and technological innovations that can be scaled-up to fast-track the affordable and sustainable district renovation (while concurrently able to contribute asap to cushioning the impact of the rise in energy prices). These will be market-ready and suitable for the upcoming energy-constrained world.

14:30 – 14:40
Introduction to SHAPE-EU’s Technical Blueprint
Nerea Gomez, Project Officer at ECTP

14:40 – 14:50
What technology works best?
Anne van Stijn, AEDES, Association of Dutch Housing Corporations

14:50 – 15:05
Re-using materials
John van Oorschot, Researcher of Hogeschool Zuyd

15:05 – 15:20
Achieving economies of scale: industrialised renovations
Sébastien Delpont, Founder of Energiesprong France and Associate Director at Greenflex

15:20 – 15:35
Integrating a mix of energy sources – the district heating approach
Susanne van Suylekom, Stakeholder manager at Vattenfall

15:35 – 15:50
Reducing time-to-market of green innovations
Thomas Messervey, CEO of R2M Solution

15:50 – 16:30
Panel discussion moderated by Thomas Messervey, CEO of R2M Solution
Anne van Stijn, AEDES, Association of Dutch Housing Corporations
John van Oorschot, Researcher of Hogeschool Zuyd
Susanne van Suylekom, Stakeholder manager at Vattenfall
Ulla-Brit Kramer, Provincie Overijssel / INDU-ZERO Project

SIDE EVENT

The building sector has not escaped the changes brought upon by digital transformation in the last decades, and smart buildings, IoT, BIM, and Big Data Analytics have come to enter our vocabulary. However, the take up of these technologies has not been as big as in other sectors, and data analytics and sensorisation in buildings still remain the property of niche, mostly higher priced real estate. This has been a result of the major challenges of bringing in new technologies into our living spaces and the sheer complexity associated to changing legacy infrastructure.
But arguably, there are considerable benefits to monitoring buildings’ performance and putting the data that is currently being collected and put into good use.

This workshop will start with a presentation of two original approaches based on sensors and data that impact our quality of life but also optimise our energy savings (and carbon emissions). Afterwards participants will have the chance to test a beta version of a software that aims at sure-firing decisions on building renovation, precisely based on the data collected throughout Europe.

The software draws from building data in the DEEP platform.

16:30 – 16:35
Introduction by João Gonçalves, Innovation and Project Manager of Housing Europe

16:35 – 16:45

Applications for building management towards the enhancement of energy efficiency
Zoi Mylona, Holistic

The reduction of the environmental impact in the building sector is necessary to achieve global sustainability. In this context, building management services provide the opportunity for efficient monitoring and control functionalities with the goal of improving thermal comfort as well as energy efficiency.

This enables building stakeholders to have centralised control over buildings by exploiting smart-meters and Internet of Things (IoT) devices installed and resulting in modernising old time-consuming approaches, requiring extensive manual effort without the interconnection of all operational sub-systems devices. To this end, innovative services has been developed within the framework of MATRYCS enabling a more robust decision-making management towards the energy efficiency of buildings. A comprehensive set of analytics services (i.e energy prediction, BAC etc.) for building services will be presented to support cases related to monitoring and improving the energy efficiency of buildings taking into account thermal comfort aspects.

16:45 – 16:55
Smart Readiness Indicator
Smart Readiness Indicator, Stijn Verbeke, SmartBuilt4EU

The European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) introduced the concept of a Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI), as a common EU scheme for rating the smart readiness of buildings. The Smart Readiness Indicator promises to raise awareness amongst building owners and occupants of the value behind automation and sensorisation in buildings. It should also give assurance to owners about potential savings of these enhanced functionalities. But how will it work? And how soon can we expect to its implementation?

This presentation will answer some of these questions.

16:55 – 17:00
Decision-making support tool for planning renovations
Elissaios Sarmas, PhD candidate at the Energy Policy Unit of the National Technical University of Athens

A new software to inform decision making in building renovation planning and management will be presented.

The attendees will then have the opportunity to test drive it and provide feedback on its functionalities and potential.

17:45
Conclusions

18:00
Cocktail drink 🍹

The Matrycs project works for a comprehensive Artificial Intelligence-based framework for decision-support applications. Its mission is to elevate building energy management to a new level through improved data processing, analysis and aggregation, accompanied by a friendly interface that makes complex data-based environments usable by everyone. More information on the project here.

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