BUILD UPON
Deep building renovation represents one of the single most critical
tools to massively lower Europe's CO2 emissions, create jobs in
the construction sector and improve the quality of the existing
built environment for the good of European citizens. BUILD UPON
is an innovative two year Horizon 2020 project, aimed at helping
European countries design and implement strong, long-term
national strategies for the renovation of their existing buildings.
Since the Energy Efficiency Directive was agreed,
many countries have struggled to define and
implement comprehensive national renovation
strategies to scale-up and deepen the rate of energy
efficient improvements. BUILD UPON will guide a
critical mass of key stakeholders across 13 countries
through a structured process, working as a powerful
collaborative community to design and implement the
v2.0 national renovation strategies due to be in place
by April 2017. A. STAKEHOLDER SYSTEM
MAPPING
All key organisations need to be at the table
during this process. Detailed stakeholder
systems maps will be produced for each project
country to show precisely which organisations
need to be partnering effectively to co-
create and deliver a bolder vision for building
renovation in Europe. These systems will be
tracked throughout the project, looking at how
they collaborate and conflict.
B. RENOWIKI
Proving a simple, accessible and quick overview
of the many diverse renovation initiatives in each
country (regulation, finance, training, research
etc.). That's the aim of ‘RenoWiki', a tool that
the BUILD UPON stakeholder community can
use to ensure that everyone starts, and stays
on the same page throughout the process, and
that a complex landscape is built upon more
strategically going forwards.
C. IDENTIFYING BEST
PRACTICE EXPERTISE
BUILD UPON aims to ensure best practice sharing
moves beyond information to action. The project
sets aside a significant budget for each country to
bring experts involved with best practice European
renovation initiatives identified by the RenoWiki to
their countries, to engage on how these initiatives
could be replicated or adapted to overcome
market barriers.
D. SHAPING THE PROCESS
The project team will work closely with governments
and stakeholders to design a series of national
and local events across major cities in the second
year of the project, to engage on key issues for the
strategies. The process will be designed to move
away from traditional speaker-audience events
towards 100% collaborative working and problem
solving to ensure the full range of stakeholder
expertise is actively utilised.
E. THE COMMUNITY
BUILDING PROCESS
BUILD UPON will see a total of 88 project
stakeholder workshops / conferences, with the
vast majority held during the second year at local,
national and European level. Reporting from these
events will feed directly into the v2.0 national
renovation strategy process and will track how
effectively the stakeholder system is collaborating.
F. CREATING AN INNOVATION
INCUBATOR
The stakeholder community BUILD UPON aims to create
will be a powerful source of innovation and collaboration.
Building on on-going work at national level, project concepts
in the four following fields will be tested with a view to
being mobilised by actors in the BUILD UPON community:
financial innovation; business model innovation; public
sector innovation; and behavioural innovation. Project launched in March 2015 James Drinkwater, Senior Policy Advisor, World Green Building Council
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Project start date
03/03/2015
Project end date
28/02/2017