Barriers and challenges of the assessment framework of the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2019/786 on building renovation by European RTD projects

Applicability of the European Union’s Building Renovation Assessment Framework in Spain

“…41 evaluates the integration of new technologies as the key towards the efficient use of energy as one possible strategy to reduce the energetic consumption of the buildings as it was reasoned in the ERT. The selected MPIs can be considered the expected ones, which are similar to the current trends of the KPIs used in the assessment methods of the European RTD projects investigated in the previous study [4], predominating the energetic and environmental indicators and including social aspects together with the integration of new technologies but with a lower importance level.…”

“…This study is part of the research project LOCAL-REGEN, where previous studies have been conducted on the assessment frameworks of European research and technological development (RTD) projects [3], as well as on the barriers and challenges of the MPIs within the assessment framework of the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2019/786 [2], by analysing their concordance with the evaluation framework of European RTD projects [4]. This second study found low data availability and reliability as the main barriers, along with the need to prioritize and shortlist the large amount of MPIs [4]. Following this, the present study investigates the applicability of the MPIs based assessment framework of the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2019/786 in the Spanish context focusing in the data availability and the prioritization.…”

“…The objective of the study is to analyse the efficient applicability of the MPIs of the assessment framework proposed by the Commission Recommendation (EU) 2019/786 [2] in Spain. The analysis involves evaluating the viability of the MPIs in terms of data quality and prioritizing the relevant ones for an efficient assessment of the national building stock renovation, upon the findings of the previous study [4]. This enables the evaluation of the assessment framework's applicability and the correlation between indicator relevance and data availability and quality.…”

“…According to the previous study about the MPIs [4], also part of LOCAL-REGEN project, is necessary to shortlist and prioritize them by selecting the significant indicators in order to make an efficient the assessment framework. To study the relevance of the MPIs in line with the targets of the EU's policy, an ERT consisting of 39 professionals from different national organizations focused in the energy efficiency in buildings carried out the prioritization of the MPIs for the Spanish context.…”

Towards the development of a systematic approach for sustainability assessment of educational infrastructure: A system of priority areas and design quality indicators

“…Typically used by building managers and policymakers, energy benchmarking is a broadly used practice of comparing and ranking the energy use of similar buildings on the city, regional or national level. While energy benchmarking is growing in popularity as cities are mandating energy savings (Francisco & Taylor, 2019; Piscitelli et al, 2019), other design quality factors, such as safety, accessibility, functionality, technical adaptability and sustainability in a wider sense, are equally important yet largely absent from the studies (Arbulu et al, 2022). Where there is a lack of (access to) data on essential infrastructure characteristics, inequality, social exclusion and safety issues might increase.…”