Accelerating Condominium Energy Retrofitting

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Although local authorities (LAs) are tackling climate change, a majority of buildings in NWE are still energy inefficient and in need of deep renovation. If action is not taken it will lock LAs into a high carbon-footprint future. By targeting condominiums, the greatest number of private owners can benefit while creating significant financial and 50-70% carbon savings. Energy Cities, guided by a strategic energy transition vision and its capacity to ensure widespread success in its network, along with 6 LAs from 5 different countries in NWE will introduce and promote a governance arrangement that overcomes the legal, human and financial barriers of retrofitting condominiums. CoachCopro, a free collaborative tool developed by the Agence Parisienne du Climat, is central to this strategy and will be improved and adapted for use in other territories. In France, this web based platform has already successfully assisted condominium owners (demand) and building professionals (supply) through an iterative process which cultivates trust relationships and generates direct and indirect jobs (potentially 19 net jobs created per €1M investment). Main outputs: -An owners and condominium managing structures toolkit to empower this target group, overcome their barriers and increase and accelerate the energy retrofitting of condominiums; -An operational coaching framework to improve the building professionals’ capacity to renovate condominiums; -A governance arrangement facilitated by LAs linking the demand and supply sides as well as a NWE transferable ICT tool for information and project management based on CoachCopro; -An Energy Cities European campaign that 10 years after the project will involve hundreds of additional LAs and ensure that thousands of deep retrofits are achieved. The project will result in 15,000 households with improved energy classification per year.

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