One-Stop-Shops for Energy Renovation of Dwellings in Europe—Approach to the Factors That Determine Success and Future Lines of Action

Arenas, Rolando Mauricio Biere; Spairani-Berrio, Silvia; Spairani-Berrio, Yolanda; Duarte, Carlos Ramiro Marmolejo

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“…Against this background, Italy was therefore recommended as one of the most promising European countries for the pilot scheme. Respondents appreciated the option of a home energy efficiency renovation fully managed by a third party, but they also wanted to be able to pursue a more personalized "do-it-yourself" approach, in line with our study (Biere-Arenas et al, 2021). Moreover, the CE results are in agreement with other research conducted using revealed preference-based models in the city of Turin (Bottero et al, 2018;Fregonara et al, 2014Fregonara et al, , 2017Mangialardo et al, 2018).…”

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A choice experiment for testing the energy-efficiency mortgage as a tool for promoting sustainable finance

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The challenges currently facing the EU in the energy sector include increasing import dependence, limited diversification, high and volatile energy prices, decarbonization, and slow progress in energy efficiency. EU energy policy has provided a wide range of measures to achieve an integrated energy market and sustainability of the building sector. Various incentives and financial instruments have been promoted and financed by governments to help consumers in energy retrofit processes. These include direct investments and fiscal, financial, and market instruments. Public measures have been widely studied but private initiatives have not. In this study, the energy-efficiency mortgage (EEM) is investigated as a credit scheme to attract young people to a real estate market for sustainable buildings, characterized by high sale prices. A choice experiment (CE) was modelled to investigate the preferences of potential young buyers of a new home. The results of this exploratory survey showed an appreciation of the purchase of new A-rated properties according to the Energy Performance Certificate, compared to those that need to be retrofitted or not retrofitted. Consumers like the option of a home energy efficiency renovation being fully managed by a third party (i.e., following the one-stop shop model). The key appeal of energy efficiency for consumers ranges from its ability to support better energy management, to better property value management. The EEM seems to be a promising tool to stimulate investments in energy efficiency and to promote the accessibility and affordability of housing in the sustainable housing market. The results of this study can help private financial institutions to propose appropriate credit plans, which limit the risk of default by the borrower. They can also help public incentive policymakers to propose complementary instruments to EEM.

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“…Similar tools have been developed in the Basque country [15] and in the metropolitan area of Barcelona [16]. The search for methodologies that can better inform decision making in residential rehabilitation constitutes an expanding field of research [17,18]. Most scientific studies that have successfully provided tools for the selection of priority areas have a top-down approach, based on the analysis of very complex secondary data sources and the detection of areas of high vulnerability.…”

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Decision-Making Tool for the Selection of Priority Areas for Building Rehabilitation in Barcelona

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The promotion of rehabilitation is an urgent necessity in today’s consolidated cities, both due to the need to update their buildings to achieve habitability and safety standards that are required nowadays, as well as to stop the deterioration of buildings in vulnerable environments, where paradoxically the obtainment of economic resources to invest in building maintenance and upgrade is scarcer. Decision making on the delimitation of areas in which the need to invest is higher is extremely complex and often relies on large secondary data studies that are contrasted with local stakeholders’ intuition and knowledge on the ground. Usually, rehabilitation aids are directed to relatively large areas, where a certain need may be found. However, these areas are often excessively wide and specific needs that would require special focus can be diluted in the whole. The current trend of area-based and site-specific rehabilitation programs calls for precise and focused data studies and methodologies. The research presented here provides a methodology for the selection of priority areas to promote rehabilitation in the context of Barcelona’s vulnerable neighborhoods. The selection methodology combines primary and secondary data with a very high level of disaggregation that identifies where the needs are greatest, and it also provides a tool that is still based on primary disaggregated data for the delimitation of areas. The results obtained highlight specific priority areas such as parts of the Raval, Carmel and Besòs-Maresme neighborhoods within larger zones that had been previously defined as vulnerable. The proposed methodology seeks to provide tools to foster evidence-based decision making, thus improving both the understanding of reality and its spatial distribution through data mining techniques and data visualization.

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“…PAS-E also includes an interactive cloud-based tool, which was used in our proposal to generate a single online database for all building information (conventional and energyrelated). Likewise, the Community Counseling Plan (technical support to guide owners on building renovation possibilities and cost-effective scenarios) proposed in PAS-E was taken as a reference and reinterpreted as a one-stop-shop (OSS) in the LdE-e model, as an integrated management entity to promote the energy renovation of dwellings [38].…”

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Libro del Edificio Electrónico (LdE-e): Advancing towards a Comprehensive Tool for the Management and Renovation of Multifamily Buildings in Spain

2023

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In 2018, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) introduced Building Renovation Passports (BRP) to enable buildings to scale energy performance through a Scheduled Renovations Roadmap (SRR). The Digital Building Logbook (DBL) was introduced in 2021 as a repository of relevant building data to facilitate informed decision-making and information sharing among stakeholders. In Spain, both tools (DBL + SRR) have been studied separately in an incipient way. However, the interconnection of data in the tools come from the same document base. Evidence suggests that when building information is used in isolation, its value is diluted without stakeholder awareness. In this paper, we move towards unifying both tools (DBL+SRR) in a single comprehensive tool called the Libro del Edificio Electrónico (LdE-e), with the aim of producing a single building database to drive multi-building renovations. For this purpose, the data fields of existing building information, assessment and management tools in Spain were studied in detail and reinterpreted in a new interconnected data structure. To evaluate the formulation of the LdE-e proposal, 11 semi-structured interviews were held with a panel of 13 experts specialized in real estate, building and energy efficiency. After these sessions, the LdE-e was reformulated, and the model was strengthened by analyzing vectors such as governance, management, usability, data flows, stakeholders and the impact of including new technologies such as BIM and blockchain. The results suggest that the LdE-e would improve control of the operation and maintenance of (new or existing) buildings, the programming of renovation actions based on deficits identified in technical inspections, and other aspects.

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One-Stop-Shops for Energy Renovation of Dwellings in Europe—Approach to the Factors That Determine Success and Future Lines of Action

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

A choice experiment for testing the energy-efficiency mortgage as a tool for promoting sustainable finance

A choice experiment for testing the energy-efficiency mortgage as a tool for promoting sustainable finance

Decision-Making Tool for the Selection of Priority Areas for Building Rehabilitation in Barcelona

Libro del Edificio Electrónico (LdE-e): Advancing towards a Comprehensive Tool for the Management and Renovation of Multifamily Buildings in Spain

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