The Pilot cases of FORTESIE project: Establishing innovative renovation packages towards the Renovation Wave acceleration” Maria Flouri and Christos Kontzinos, National Technical University of Athens

The built environment is responsible for a significant share of our consumption of energy and resources: 50% of all extracted materials, 30% of water consumption, 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions are associated with the building industry. The Renovation Wave set the objective to double the current renovation rate (at maximum 1% in EU1) by 2030. FORTESIE is a Horizon Europe project that operates under the realization that achieving the green deal targets related to the built environment is complex and requires a multistakeholder approach. As such, FORTESIE takes a holistic approach towards the establishment of foundations for the realization of the above objective through a transformative adaptation that prioritizes renovation and Efficient, Sustainable and Inclusive Energy use (ESIE) performance improvements, and its advances include targets beyond energy consumption to achieve the Paris Agreement.

According to the above, FORTESIE aims to accelerate the Renovation Wave in Europe by designing and demonstrating innovative renovation packages in the building industry with Smart Performance-Based guarantees and financing. These renovation packages will combine state-of-the-art construction materials and technological components and will be tailored to specific target groups’ needs and optimized to improve the efficient, sustainable, and inclusive energy performance while also considering comfort. Additionally, innovative digital technologies for measurement and verification will be developed and implemented to raise the overall energy performance contract value proposition. An online marketplace will be developed and implemented to offer advice and facilitate access to these renovation services. The FORTESIE project will evaluate the effectiveness of these solutions and validate novel business models in real demonstrators in 6 countries, for 3 different target groups in 7 versatile pilot sites. The main aim of this paper is to present the FORTESIE pilots’ deployment, exhibit their progress, identify common challenges and potential obstacles in their implementation, while presenting their contribution in the implementation of innovative renovation packages.

Contributing projects:

• FORTESIE

Session Chair:

Christos Kontzinos, National Technical University of Athens – Maria Flouri, National Technical University of Athens